UPRISE: Back Pain Liberation, by Tuning Your Body Guitar

by Dr. Sean Wheeler

Overview

What if everything you think you know about chronic back pain were wrong? Despite forty years of breakthroughs in medical science, patients suffering from chronic lower back pain are not getting better. When treatments fail, we must ask ourselves - what is fundamentally wrong? UPRISE shines a spotlight on debilitating chronic back pain and asks the big question - why aren't patients getting better? The answer will shock you: your pain treatment is keeping you in pain. Drawing upon more than a decade of research and private medical practice, Dr. Sean Wheeler explores the interplay between pain, spinal instability, muscle weakness, and mobility that locks patients in a cycle of reoccurring pain. UPRISE offers a new understanding of the body as the finely tuned instrument that it is - as not only your body, but also your Body Guitar. The introduction of Tune Me - the new medical "orchestration" for your Body Guitar - is nothing short of a disruptive innovation in the understanding and treatment of chronic back pain. Tune Me helps patients stand together and UPRISE. By tuning your Body Guitar, you can regain control of your life so that those you love can again hear the unique, beautiful music your life is intended to play.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780692296493
Publisher:	BodyGuitar, LLC
Publication date:	08/19/2015
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	886,108
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

Editorial Reviews

07/20/2015
Wheeler, a physician specializing in sports medicine and pain management, brings readers what he describes as “a revolution” in back pain management in this informative and encouraging book. During Wheeler’s 20 years in practice, he has often seen patients with chronic back pain, something that, “quite literally, ruins lives.” He has also observed a lack of progress in developing effective treatment, for which he identifies three underlying causes: slowness in treating back pain when it first develops; failure to treat it as a systemic problem; and inattention to the issue of bracing muscle weakness, which develops over time. To treat these issues, he’s created the Tune Me Method, which he presents as a “paradigm shift.” Stressing the importance of a “good medical team” and of early pain management, Wheeler lays out a step-by-step program, telling readers to “be own advocates” when talking to doctors. He is frank, however, that success will demand both patience and discipline. Wheeler’s avuncular method of doling out information a bit at a time may remind readers of their own physician relaying new—and not always welcome–information. His zealous conclusion, in which he encourages readers to speak out to other patients, doctors, and even the insurance industry, should strike an inspiring chord for back pain sufferers. (BookLife)

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