Play Golf Forever: Treating Low Back Pain & Improving Your Golf Swing Through Fitness - Softcover

Jaffe, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1420869175 ISBN 13: 9781420869170

Publisher: Authorhouse, 2005

Synopsis

PLAY GOLF FOREVER: Treating Low Back Pain and Improving Your Golf Swing Through Fitness is an overall look at low back pain as it relates to golf and it includes information on when you need to see a doctor as well as on types of medical treatments for low back pain. The core of the book is an exercise program designed to strengthen the lower back for the rigors of golf--functional training for core strengthening. Citing a few stories of patients from his SPorts Medicine practice in Southern California, where people can golf year round, Dr. Michael Jaffe focuses on the message that motion is life. Jaffe, who is a golfer as well as a triathlete, mixes medical information with a physiological examination of a golf swing and then offers an exercise program that is designed specifically to strengthen a golfer's back. Low back pain is very common in golfers. What should be common knowledge among golfers--in fact, among all of us-- is that exercise is the best thing you can do to ease your pain. By making clear that exercise works, PLAY GOLF FOREVER is an inspirational book that educates, motivates and demonstrates. Someone once said, "There is nothing more obvious than the gracefulness of a well-timed golf swing." Learning the mechanics of such a golf swing, especially as it relates to back health, is another cornerstone of this book. This book is split into three parts--examining the back, the game of golf as it relates to the back, and the exercise program. These three parts are book ended by two inspirational chapters explaining the power of the body to heal itself, and how functional training recharges that power. Part One of PLAY GOLF FOREVER delves into an explanation of the many kinds of lower back pain, when to see a doctor, including a list of red-flag symptoms, and then an overall look at the various treatments available. Part Two of the book examines why golfers get lower back, including a look at the four major causes, as well as a comparison between golfe

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About the Author:

Dr. Michael Jaffe is the director of the Low Back Pain Clinic at Kaiser Permanente in San Diego. He is also an athlete, a golfer, and a staff physician who has heard thousands of patients tell him that lower back pain is preventing them from playing golf. Dr. Jaffe has a credo: Motion is life. His belief that much of how we express ourselves is through our physical actions is emphasized in this book, which is designed to get people back doing what it is they love to do - golf. He has run marathons, participated in 100-mile bicycle races, Won a corporate relay bike race across the Unites States, entered triathlons, and climbed mountains such as Mount Kilamanjaro and Mount Rainer. He is an avid snowboarder and in-line skater. In his training for his many athletic activities, Dr. Jaffe discovered the wonders of functional training at about the same time he began playing golf. He immediately recognized that the muscle groups and skills that are strengthened in functional training are the exact same ones challenged by the game of golf. And he discovered that functional training is the perfect program for golfers with lower back pain. Dr. Jaffe is an experienced speaker and is on the Speakers Bureau for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Inc., and Medtronic Neurological. He is currently lecturing on the subject of golf and back pain at U.C.L.A. and U.C. Davis, and San Diego Osteopathic Medical Association, National medical Conferences, as well as San Diego Fit Running Club. He has also spoken to regional Southern California Kaiser Permanente Primary Care Symposiums about golf and back pain. THE COLLABORATORS BRIAN TARCY has collaborated on more than one dozen books on business, professional sports and medicine. He is also a freelance journalist and his work has appeared in newspapers and magazines across the country. Here is a list of his books:The complete idiot's guide to starting a restaurant, By Howard Cannon with Brian Tarcy (Alpha Books 2001) The complete idiot's gu

About this edition

• Publisher: Authorhouse
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1420869175
• ISBN 13: 9781420869170
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168