8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back: Natural Posture Solutions for Pain in the Back, Neck, Shoulder, Hip, Knee, and Foot Paperback – 31 July 2013

This book is amazing. It is so helpful for my shoulder and neck aches.The book was delivered very quickly and it is a brand new book.

I think my back is sorted, I had terrible problem last year in September, I was doing my last day at work and had to cancel it because something happened to my back, I never experienced such a pain of the lower back and thought I just have to manage to get to my car and drive home, when I got into the car the pain was excruciating (and I thought I was quite good managing pain without the pain killers, haha),I had to wait for quite a while till the pain eased of a little and managed to get home. Back at home it started aching so badly I could only stand holding a chair and crying while my partner got me some painkillers. the pain lasted few days, I went to cranio-sacral therapist and relaxed a lot during her sessions. And while the pain was still somewhere in the background I found Esther book on amazon. I really loved the photographs on every page and started applying Esther's suggestions immediately, it is now nearly 6 months after the my back problem and no more pain so far! I improved so much that can not even slouch in the car any more,(I spend about 10 hours in the car a week) My back will straighten up itself. Walking took me longer to master and probably it is not perfect yet, but I feel my pelvic and buttock muscles are much stronger and more bulky which I am really happy about :) to summarise I love the book and I am really grateful that Esther shared her knowledge so generously.

I have had chronic back pain for 12 years. I often took pain killers, over the counter or from the doctor. I have tried, acupuncture, traction, cranial sacral therapy, massage, reiki, need I go on - I tried it all. I've had test after test physio therapy many times to improve my posture and still I am in pain.Then I heard about Esthers book. She belives that the posture we teach is increasing back pain and bases her method around studying the countries where back pain is lower.Many of the things Esther talks about in her book are the things I was doing before I had problems, like how to walk, hip hinging and how to sleep. Doctors have been telling me for years that my posture was terrible and yet all they told me to do made it worse. Esther's method makes sense, about sitting, standing and walking in a way that your large joints take the strain, not your back. Is my back better, yes of course it is. I move my back in a natural way now.Physiotherapists should take note as their success rate in treating back and neck pain is low. Time to try something different?I love this book.

Hmmmm - there are really only a couple of ideas in the book ,the rest is "filler", and if you've done any Alexander technique or watched pretty well any you-tube videos on exercises for back pain, you might not find much that's new. But then again, the fact that there's nothing new probably means that the exercises and ideas here are the ones that work. The book is nicely written and has some good reminders, so is still worth buying.

Really great book, very well put together - step by step instructions on how to change posture, lots of photos which are really helpful. This really feels like common sense stuff that makes huge difference to quality of life, instead of keep paying out on physio/osteopathy etc (which I was doing) I have made more difference to my body with 6 months of practice with these techniques. I am now doing a physical job which I would have struggled with before due to constant pain and discomfort. It is not an overnight fix it does take practice and commitment but completely worth it.

I bought this book for my daughter who has had chronic lower back pain for over seven years due to a fall from a trampoline - she was 13 years old at the time.Before we even read and digested this book we were converts after just looking at the pictures, as it makes so much sense. When we read the book and followed the advice the differences in her back were amazing. She still had a few spasms, catches and pain but she felt that she slept and sat so much better.We felt that the book was a bit hard to follow for a few of the steps but the results were so good with just our interpretation we felt that a more hands on approach would take it to the next level. My daughter took lessons with one of Esther's teachers and the results have been more that we could have hoped for.I recommend this book and new way of life posture for everyone, no matter whether they have back pain or not.

I found this book by browsing on the US Amazon, and bought it as one of a number of books to resolve an issue with my back.The book does for me an excellent job of showing using the examples of people in Burkinso Furso, Brazil, Portugal babies and ancient statues and even picture of people in the US and France at the turn of the 19 century that what is accepted today as good posture is not in fact the case.The static exercises, and sitting on the chair are reasonably well explained, although it helps if you have someone to read the exercises out to you and to check you are in the right position, particularly the one where you are on your side in bed.Where I struggled with my understanding is with her description on how to do the glide walking, particularly as the pictures do not have the floor on them and are shown in discrete sequences from one place to another.This to me was so much an issue that I bought her DVD when it cam out from her US site, but unfortunately she puts walking as a bonus at the back of the DVD and doesn't really explain if much better than the book. The rest of the DVD cover the stuff in the book.She has videos on her site and youtube, and also quite a long talk that she gave to Google employees, so if you are interested then check these out first.

Ich habe mich 25 Jahre lang gekrümmt - weil meine Beckenstellung falsch war.Ich kann dieses Buch nur empfehlen! Anhand von Beispielen aus der natürlichen Haltung von Kleinkindern, oder auch aus der gesunden natürlichen Haltung indigener Völker, wie man stehen, laufen, sitzen und sogar liegen soll. Es öffnet einem die Augen für die in unserer modernen Gesellschaft allgegenwärtige Fehlhaltung - selbst bei vielen Sportlern!Mein Huckel schwindet und ich habe nie mehr Rückenschmerzen. Ein Muss, dieses Buch!

Très détaillé, super pour toutes les douleurs du corps.

Official diagnosis of my problem is 'Spondylitis', is genetic as half of my fathers's side suffers from it. Have only used for first step of the book and I would say 70% of my back and neck problems have gone. Been suffering from last 10-11 yrs, now solved by making very small changes.Eager to finish the book in coming weeks.

Tengo una cervicalgia cronica desde 2 años, tengo 34 años. Medicos no entienden bien lo que tengo et no me han ayudado mucho. Este metodo, y especialmente el cojin que se pone sobre la cabeza, me han ayudado un monton, y recomiendo mucho a cualquier persona con problemas de cervicales.I have a chronic cervicalgia for 2 years now, at 34 only. I have consulted a ton of doctors, all specialties, did all the exams. MRI showed 3 herniated discs but as the symptoms don't match it does not explain anything. I let some doctors give me some medications, which I regret a lot (benzo/alprazolam/xanax/diazepam/valium) and also amiltryptiline/tryptizol. I'm eventually no longer taking any meds. The Gokhale has helped me much more than any doctor did. If you buy one thing, buy the head cushion. You keep it on your head, and it forces you to have good cervical posture, this was the fix for me!

The advice in this publication has helped me immensely. Would recommend to all even if they don't have a back problem yet.