Fixing You: Neck Pain & Headaches: Self-Treatment for healing Neck pain and headaches due to Bulging Disks, Degenerative Disks, and other diagnoses.: Volume 1

Why am I almost giving this book 5 stars when it failed to fix my problem? Well, I've suffered from neck pain and debilitating headaches for 50 years. Various trips to "specialists" over the years resulted in diagnoses from "growing pains" to "side effects of epilepsy" to "migraine" to "stress" to "50 year old neck on a 30 year old body."In the last couple of years I visited a Spanish chiropractor who finally made the connection between shoulder alignment and the resulting pain. He managed to temporarily reduce the frequency and intensity of the pain but still provided no lasting solution. (Not that I was really expecting it after so many years.)So, apologies for the rambling, that's when I found this book. Having read it I had a photo taken of my back and was truly astounded at how much lower one of my shoulder blades rested compared with the other one. Specialist 0, book 1!I started the exercises and approached the whole thing with a positive attitude, as encouraged by the author. It didn't work!However, I could tell the whole approach was in the right area so I went back to the beginning and looked carefully at the videos they supplied on the website. I then realised that, having done my best to follow them, I hadn't quite adhered to the instructions. There were subtle differences between my actions and those of the video. These made a huge difference and I would recommend asking somebody to follow your actions and be as critical as possible. When I followed the steps very closely I suddenly found that I could feel stretching and releasing going on in the muscles of my neck and shoulder which I hadn't before. These were the keys to the treatment!The end result of all this is that I still have problems with my neck and still get excruciatingly painful headaches. However, I now have a set of exercises which help. Depending on the severity they will either reduce the pain, remove it temporarily or limit the duration. (I sometimes had the pain for 4 or 5 days and now the maximum is 1 day.) For me this represents a great success and I'm still tempted to give the book 5 stars!

Although it’s a slim volume, this works in its favour. It allows you to get to the crux of the issue very quickly and it helps enormously that the advice is very sound and clearly written. You get a great overview of the potential causes of the problem and the methods of easing and maybe curing those symptoms. If you suffer neck and head aches then you owe it to yourself to try.

I have a complex neck problem and short of the range of people who have to deal with it from physios to chiropractors, neurologists and basically anyone else passing this book is the best thing. It is good and informative

The book is fine, there is a web address given in the book, which has the related video exercises. Must admit I've only tried the exercises once.

Full of good advice and exercises, it may not cure, but it will be very helpful for those with neck problems and persistent headaches. A lot better than filling oneself with painkillers.

foound this to be very informative at a level my clients will understand. I also like the idea of the supportive website showing the way to do the exercises. The Author is very qualified. commended :)

Great product - helped me a lot, links with a password to internet videos which are very informative would definitely recommend it!

Not very helpful - too many visulisation and mind things in it rather than practical help - still I am sure will help some people