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The Better Back System

The Better Back System helps you understand how your back works - it explains things simply and clearly. Learn about your treatment options and also what you might encounter in the medical system.

Follow this system and you'll know how to avoid expensive and possibly needless treatments for your sciatica & back pain.

Best of all it gives you simple, step by step instructions and videos for a range of exercises to help you stop your sciatica and back pain.

Find out about the Better Back System.





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Non Surgical Treatment For Sciatica

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

This site is all about how you can use exercise and diet as a means for managing and stopping siatica and back pain.

One of the reasons is that studies show that surgery produces no statistical difference in long-term results for curing sciatica as compared to conservative (i.e. non-surgical) care.

The key words used here are “no statistical difference”.

What this means is that in a sample of say 100 people who have back surgery, there will be:

1. Some people who obtain a positive benefit,
2. Some who end up worse off and
3. The majority for whom there is minimal difference. The average, long term result for the whole group is no difference.

It’s important that you understand how the statistics work.

The other factor to understand is that the benefits from back surgery are typically not long lasting. After 6 months or so, people tend to be back where they started.

So the summary is that you should be very cautious before embarking on back surgery, because the odds on it helping you are not good. I suggest you get at least two opinions before considering surgery.

Again, what we recommend in terms of non surgical treatment for sciatica is:

1. Change your pattern of movement, routine, exercise - if you’re not doing any exercise then start!

2. Start a set of exercises designed for your back. You can sign up for the back exercise course using the form on the left, or buy the Better Back System.

3. Develop good eating habits. Food is the fuel, lubrication and buidling material of your body. Guess what - feed it rubbish and it ain’t gonna work very well!

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