*From The Creator Of The Hip Hook*
The underlying cause of your pain could be a tight and unrecognized muscle in your hip.
Do you have pain in your back, tailbone, pelvis, hip, knee, or foot that won’t go away, no matter what you try? All of these issues can result from tightness in the iliacus and psoas, commonly called the “hip flexor” which can cause not just hip pain, but pain all over the body.
Most people don’t even know they have an iliacus, but this tight muscle can cause lower back pain while sitting, hip pain with driving & can even make you prone to hip osteoarthritis. The truth is that almost everyone has hip flexor tightness and this tension twists the core of the body. As a result of too much sitting, driving, running, biking, kicking, heavy lifting, yoga, dance, gymnastics, or stress, a tight hip could be the missing link to enjoying a pain-free life. Hip health is key to a pain free body.
In this book you will:
- Discover how these muscles impact your body from head to toe
- Determine if you are one of the millions of people with a tight iliacus or psoas muscle
- Release the tension in these stressed tissues for good
- Get your body aligned for pain-free performance & increased endurance lowering your risk of injuries
- Prevent iliacus and psoas muscle tightness from developing ever again
- Get detailed hip flexor exercises, tips to address trigger points, exercises for sciatica, tools to keep the hip flexible & solutions for pelvic pain.
- Maintain the health of the hip joint & keep the hip stretchable.
- Know the cause for tailbone pain & the effective techniques for iliacus and psoas releases.
Based on decades of physical therapy practice, this book outlines 3 simple steps to get your hip healthy and your core aligned, helping you resolve your pain and create hip mobility without expensive treatments, surgeries, and medications.
This Worldwide Best-Selling Book will Help You Diagnose, Alleviate, Treat and Manage Back Pain Quickly and Effectively
Back pain is one of the most common reasons people seek medical help or miss work and is a leading cause of disability. Patients with lower back pain, upper back pain, and sciatica can benefit from the education and exercises in Treat Your Own Back. This best-selling book has helped hundreds of thousands of people worldwide with chronic back pain.
Written by physiotherapist Robin McKenzie, the book provides an understanding of how the spine works, the basics of mechanical back pain and common causes of back pain. It then offers do-it-yourself back pain relief techniques, including postural changes, ergonomics and clinically proven McKenzie Method® exercises.
Color photos and simple step-by-step instructions show you how to perform simple stretches and exercises that can be done just about anywhere to help treat and prevent pain. In addition to this exercise program, you’ll discover when to do the exercises, how to know if you are performing the exercises correctly, what to do when the pain has subsided, and how to prevent recurrence of pain.
In Treat Your Own Back you’ll learn:
- Myths about acute back pain
- How the spine works
- The basics of mechanical back pain
- Common causes of back pain and how to prevent it
- How the McKenzie Method works
- Simple stretches and exercise to help treat and prevent back pain
- Lifestyle habits to help treat and prevent back pain
- What to do when experiencing acute back pain
- How to avoid and treat the effects of postural stress by improving posture
- How to counter the effects of sitting for extended periods
- Common remedies including medications, bed rest and acupuncture
This completely revised and formatted ninth edition landmark patient book includes updated content, new photos and clinically proven McKenzie Method® exercises. It provides a clear understanding of the causes and treatments of persistent back pain.
The author can be really annoying with his constant grandstanding about how he is the authority in this and he proved all his doubters wrong blah blah, but I don't really care. I am really pleased I read this.
Thanks Chic.
Will help me. Thanks.
McKenzie's Treat Your Own Back is equally life-changing. His step-by-step guide to self-management for back pain has been crucial to my recovery after a recent sports injury. The exercises are simple yet powerful, and they’ve made a huge difference in my daily comfort and posture. These books together are a powerhouse for anyone interested in Pilates, yoga, rehabilitation, or injury prevention. They’ve empowered me to take control of my body and pain—highly recommend to everyone!
I found this book very useful in helping me start to solve my issues.
I found Ms. month's book informative, easy to understand, and useful.
The exercises are easy to follow and apply. As an ice hockey goaltender in me early 60s, it natural to feel some aches, pain, and stiffness in the hips and lower back. Understanding how our body is built, then why the pain occurs, naturally leads to curiosity for relief, and this book delivers. Applying the simple terms and using supporting diagrams for direction, has made my life after play, much better. Using this information has also assisted me in making changes in daily activities, so I move a lot more easily.
I'd recommend this book to anyone interested in having more mobility and less pain in all of your physical activities.
I cannot sing the books praises enough. The book brought attention to all of my complaints! lower back pain, Hip pain, groin tightness, leg ache and even foot pain with every step. I believe I had chronic tightness in my illiacus muscle exacerbated by chronic stress. The book and hip hook helped me to address this issue. I also started seeing a massage therapist who has been wonderful by helping me to relax, manage my stress andbuild up strength in my quads on the "good" leg and loosening up my hips with home exercises.
Each day without this pain is a blessing. I hope my review will help someone like me who has tried everything! I'm so thankful that I found the Tight Hip Twisted Core book by Christine Koth! Thank you so much!!!
There are 2 tools that are sold separately that I wish I had prior knowledge about.
Also, I think all health care professionals and certification holders should read this book!
So many orthopedic issues begin in lack of motion, and how our body accommodates our poor motion habits throughout our life. Ultimately, we will have SYMMETRY problems and all that entails. I don't fault Christine for selling the hook. I have one on order, and am really looking forward to using this specific-use tool. Nonetheless, the alternative she offers is a ball, which I have found works pretty well. Specifically a MobilityWOD 4" Supernova ball.
By incorporating Christines fundamental insight regarding internal rotation of the thigh due to a tight iliacus has altered my workout for the better. The result is I have far better symmetry and balance. My gait is much more even, my twisted shoulder is resolving. I believe my knee will last much longer as well. I sit (when I do) differently and stand differently. Yup, everything. The iliacus it appears is at the center of everything we do. This book is call to action! So get going...
A friend sent me this book with a personal recommendation. I followed the directions and within a day I was just about back to normal. Amazing results.
Thank you Christine for releasing this great book! I'm looking forward to the release of your hip hook!
Christina Barnett
Owner/ Krav Maga Institute Colorado
hope the whole world soon learns about your work. It’s very much needed today. Not just to relieve pain but to prevent it.
From the time we go to school and throughout our life we sit too much. So much pain could be avoided if everyone practiced what your are teaching early in life.
With my very first session - after following your exercises - I got relief. I have a Joovv infrared light and a biomat but now know how to get better use from them. I’m about to start doing yoga and Pilates again and now know how to do them correctly.
Thanks very much Christine.
Fast forward a few years, and I had studied a number of rehab disciplines. Some had knowledge of the iliacus, many did not and simply grouped them under the big category of hip flexor. But also I learned a number of things about muscles and treating movement. It is wonderful that many of these concepts that took me years and many courses to learn are all summarized in this book.
Also, many current techniques and concepts are highlighted, which are unfortunately not covered in many other texts. They tend towards older techniques and concepts. Things like prolonged pressure, which is something I learned recently at a workshop, and lighter pressure than you would think. So not only do you get a lot of information about the iliacus, you will also get a lot about current thinking on techniques to treat muscles in general.
Nicely covered is a deep dive into the iliacus and its function and what happens when dysfunction occurs and other structures are affected. There is a great section on how the iliacus is involved with other conditions like hip arthritis. Many diagrams are provided which, through simple illustration, show the iliacus's action on the various structures of the body, and what happens to you when you have a tight iliacus.
As a bonus, the book also covers some other areas, like organs and blood vessel effects, nerve effects, as well as emotions and their role in muscle tightness.
I highly recommend this gem - you'll get all you'll want to know about the iliacus and a lot of other great material as well.
I've had ongoing lumbar, hip and shoulder pain for a few years and i'm only 40 so I was worried to see it progress. PT, massage, chiro and pain relievers helped in the short term but I knew I wasn't finding the cause. Finally a personal trainer led me to a myofacial release therapist. She inspected my posture at every visit and helped me troubleshoot my posture during sleep, standing and sitting and lent me a book about my psoas. I found *this* book on my own, and started to do the routine in the book. My posture was originally exactly like one of the bad posture pictures in this book. This explains everything about why my pain kept returning and the book gave me step by step ways to keep it from happening again. If you're dealing with pain, this is a small cost compared to repeated office visits or surgery. I love the tips about how to sit better, and exercises to avoid.
already feel a difference. I can’t wait to see if this resolves my issue and I’m looking forward to getting the hip hook. What she explains in the book makes SO much sense and it is written in a way that is easy to understand. I finished the bulk of the book in less than 2 hours. It’s a must read for any athlete, or anyone who sits or drives for long periods of time. Actually I think everyone would benefit. Highly recommend!
Simple and easy and i have to say as a person who has herniated 2 discs that it was the only thing i ended up doing that helped.
Plus the advice in the book goes farther than back pain it talks about good practices that we should remember to do in other areas of our life.
Read it.
I suffered from back trouble for easily 15 years prior to reading this book. I finally decided standard medicine wasn't helping, after my forth physical therapy series. Since reading this book and adopting it's approach, I have not had a back outage in 10 years and counting. Everyone I've recommended it to has had a vast improvement, including my mother and several of her friends. What I like most about the book is it shows you the same exercises PT folks show you, only it puts them in order and explains their purpose. I can't tell you how many times I went into my PT and they said "we have a few more exercises for you." I asked the purpose of the exercises and they would say "they'll strengthen your back." Never explaining the physiology or the mechanics of them. I've also used the "Treat your own shoulder" book, which was equally beneficial.
I should also mention, I've had several MRIs on my lower back over the years. My problem was described as degenerative disk for several vertebrae in my lower back, if it helps give context to anyone reading this review.
The shipping process with this company was a breeze.
I highly recommend the book and the system. It takes time, and I've only been doing it for 3 weeks! I feel optimistic about my back getting better again!
This book explains logically why lower back pain exists and presents a set of exercises that are amazing not only for recovery, but for prevention as well. I highly recommend this book!
The first half of this book is a gold mine. It tells you why you have pain, in other words it explains the mechanics of your back and what causes pain. I spent 14 months in Physical Therapy with a herniated disk. Until my Therapist suggested this book (God Bless him for doing so), I really had no idea what I was doing or how to 'really' correct it. After I read this book twice, I was able to use the simple excercises EFFECTIVELY. After three weeks I was able to have periods of 15 to 30 minutes without PAIN. This was a breakthrough for me, as I was wearing my Tens unit 24hrs a day and taking pain pills and muscle relaxers.
It has been almost two years, and I wasn't able to permanently remove the pain or fix the herniated disk by Physical Therapy or through Pain Management (7 epidurals in 12 months). I just had surgery a week ago. I cannot wait till my Neurosurgeon lets me start my Therapy. When I am walking into the Therapy office for my first appointment, you can bet that this book will be in my hand.
This has to be the best ten dollar investment I have ever made...