Treat Your Own Neck Is A Book Everyone With Neck Pain Should Have

If you have chronic neck pain, Treat Your Own Neck is a guide to self treatment through education and easy to do exercises based on the McKenzie Method. It is a system for self managing and offers relief as well as prevention of neck pain.

It is now the 5th Edition with color illustrations in a softcover book with 80 pages. I still have my 3rd Edition, over 20 years old. It has about 60 pages with black and white photos, so the new edition is really nice. The best part is it can really help. When you take control of your condition, all you need is the proper information and instructions.

This does not mean you don’t see a doctor, but the book can be a great start, or complimentary to chiropractic or physical therapy care. While there is a comprehensive method to diagnose and treat for health care professionals, this is a basic manual that puts the power of this method in your hands. It uses uses a combination of repeated movements and sustained positions to affect signs and symptoms.

It has helped countless of people all around the world with neck pain relief and I highly recommend it. Part of this method is used a lot at Neck Solutions and you can get a compact, nicely organized and illustrated manual that will benefit you and other around you.

Treat Your Own Neck gives you a very practical approach to managing neck pain symptoms. The exercises form what many professionals use and the McKenzie Method gives you the tools to respond to various types of neck related pain, especially postural stress so common today with the use of smartphones and increasing problems in younger populations called “text neck”

This self treatment handbook teaches you common causes of neck pain, the exercises, when and how to apply them with great instructions and illustrations, so you will be able to get the most from this method in an economical and safe manner.

Health care professional trained in this technique diagnose classifications of spinal derangement syndromes that guide treatment. A 2005 study in the Journal of Manipulative & Physiologial Therapeutics confirms reliable classification of patients for cervical pain.

The book can help manage symptoms related to the neck like headaches, herniated disc pain, pinched nerve symptoms, and pain between the shoulder blades. The professional method of diagnosis and therapy was very useful in practice; sometimes indicating therapies not amenable to this type of therapy, but I highly recommend the book.

A 2024 study in the Journal of Back and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation found that adding stabilization exercises to the exercises in this book offered clinically meaningful neck pain reduction in patients with chronic neck pain. This is an approach can improve outcomes with better motion range.