Back pain is the one of the world\'s greatest public health challenges.
It should be a wake-up call for health professionals and patients.\' - Sophie Scott, Adjunct Associate Professor in science Communication and former ABC national medical reporter \'This bold and engaging investigative book by Liam Mannix will have you questioning what you thought you knew about the back, and how we experience and treat pain.\' - Aisha Dow, health editor with The Age.
It illustrates how too much medicine is significantly harming patients, rather than helping them.
Back Up sets the record straight by confronting our current understanding of pain, and chronic pain in particular.\' - Ian Harris, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and co-author of Surgery, the Ultimate Placebo: A surgeon cuts through the evidence \'Back Up is an important book for anyone with chronic pain to read.
When the biggest predictor of chronic Back pain is job satisfaction, something is wrong with our anatomic, mechanistic understanding of this common condition.
That\'s where the answers lie.\' - Dr Norman Swan, medical journalist and host of ABC Radio\'s Health Report \'Back pain is the leading cause of disability in Australia and this book argues that this need not be the case.
This book will do your head in, which is exactly what needs to happen. \'Forget everything you think you know about Back pain.
This new science offers new solutions - including, remarkably, evidence that just by teaching people this theory of pain we can reduce it.
Instead, Back pain is all about the brain.
A theory has emerged, born from cutting-edge neuroscience, that claims Back pain often has little to do with the Back or the discs or the spine.
Liam Mannix is one of the many who experience Back pain, and he takes this as a starting point for this compelling and urgent work of investigative journalism.
Yet leading experts say that more often than not, all this expensive medicine is making things worse.
A multi-billion dollar industry exists that claims it can fix Back pain - by shrinking discs, melting nerves, cutting spines up and putting them Back together.
And rates are growing.
One in 10 people will develop chronic Back pain.
It is the leading reason we visit the doctor, the leading reason we take time off work, the biggest cause of disability worldwide.
Back pain is the one of the world\'s greatest public health challenges
