Achy-Breaky Back: A Quick Guide for All Stages of Back Pain
By Arnie Holtz
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Discover how to treat your back pain from an experienced massage therapist with twenty-nine years of working with professional athletes, ballet troupes, yoga instructors, Pilates instructors, and people from all walks of life who suffer with pain. Holtz shares this step-by-step guide on what to do and what not to do while in the different back pain stages. He explains how to choose effective medical interventions during and after back pain episodes to lessen the risk of future episodes.
Achy-Breaky Back covers back pain in its multi-functional presentations from mild, occasional pain to severe, repeating pain. Holtz shares his experience and knowledge to make people’s lives easier and less painful.
Arnie Holtz
Arnie Holtz, is a retired massage therapist with twenty-nine years of experience in massage therapy, almost all in the practice of advanced bodywork. He was a nationally certified CORE Structural Integration Bodyworker. His work focused on creating a body structure more conducive to improved balance, increased function, effortless movement, and better health. He combined myofascial connective tissue structural bodywork, craniosacral, microcurrent, neuromuscular, laser, Kinesio taping, and isolated muscle stretching to reach his clients’ goals. He taught hands-on massage and structural bodywork to massage therapists. While his clients came from all walks of life, they all had one thing in common: the need to improve their health.
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Achy-Breaky Back - Arnie Holtz
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ISBN: 978-1-9822-7294-4 (sc)
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Balboa Press rev. date: 09/17/2021
Everything should be made as simple
as possible, but not simpler.
—Albert Einstein
CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
My Story
Chapter 1 The Why Of Back Pain
Chapter 2 The How Of Back Pain
Chapter 3 Managing Your Back Pain
Chapter 4 Managing Your Back Pain In The Acute Stage
Chapter 5 Managing Your Back Pain In The Subacute Stage
Chapter 6 Managing Your Back Pain In The Chronic Stage
Chapter 7 Perpetuating Factors
Chapter 8 Medical Choices For Treating Back Pain
Chapter 9 Self-Care
About The Author
PREFACE
I began writing this book a few years ago, not knowing that by the time of its completion, the world would be in the middle of a coronavirus pandemic affecting every aspect of life for billions of people. It is now October 2020, and this book is going to initial editing. The timing is perfect as many of us are going through unprecedented uncertainty and stress with many people in financial crisis and insecurity. I am not aware of statistics showing us how many people are experiencing back pain due to the coronavirus’s insecurities and stresses. However, I feel that many people globally are suffering, and this book will be vital to them. I base this presumption that stress, uncertainty, and financial woes will create an emotional response that will manifest into physical ailments, such as back weakness and dysfunction.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I acknowledge with deep gratitude all of my great teachers, patients, family members, and friends who contributed to this book’s writing. Without them, the task would have been impossible to accomplish.
Thanks to Jean Loving, my first influential massage therapy teacher, who opened my mind to touch and its effects on the connective tissue system. Another influential teacher, Dr. Michael Shea, introduced me to delicate, sensitive, healing, energetic touch. I would never have become an accomplished bodyworker without the guidance and instructions from my following teachers: George Kousaleos, LMT, owner of the Core Institute, Tallahassee, Florida; William Bonney, PhD; Gary Genna, LMT; Thomas W. Wing, DC, ND, LAc; Dennis Greenlee, DC, LAc; Eric Dalton, PhD, LMT; James Waslaski, LMT; Thomas Myers, LMT; Jim Asher, LMT; Aaron Mattis, MS, RKT, LMT; and Kenzo Kase, DC.
I would also like to thank the many published authors, innovators, and researchers who have significantly influenced my career. I give thanks to Leon Chaitow, ND, DO; Dr. Tiffany Fields, who taught me the essence of human touch; Dr. Milton Trager; Deane Juhan, LMT, author of Job’s Body; and Dr. Ida Rolf, founder of the Rolf Institute and creator of myofascial structural integration. Thank you to Dr. Florence Licatta for not only being a friend and terrific chiropractor but for expertise on human physiology and back pain, upon which I leaned significantly. Thanks to my dear friends and fellow massage therapists Paul Pock and JoAnn Fekany, for the many hours spent on their tables getting bodywork and many hours spent in conversation on myofascial bodywork.
I would also like to mention my dearly departed aunt Viola, who unknowingly became the primary influencer in my career change to massage therapy. She told me that I had magical hands when I was a very young boy; I used to massage her and many of my first cousins. Her words played a significant role in thinking of what I wanted to be next in my life at age forty-nine. It’s never too late,
as they say. This book is only possible because of the road I decided to take at age forty-nine. I love you, Josh and Jordan, my two sons who supported me during my career change.
My first inspiration to become a healer came from my father, Dr. Harry Holtz, an eye surgeon who taught me while growing up compassion and empathy toward people in need. No physician had a better bedside manner and an enormous following of adoring patients than my father, a man with a compassionate heart. My thanks to my mother, who taught me to follow my dreams and to never quit.
Lastly, my deepest thanks and love to my precious wife, Dr. Mary Holtz, who has been with me on my journey since 1993 and without whose support and love I never would be at this beautiful point in my life. I will always cherish the years spent together in our practice, day after day, healing those in need. She is my healer and muse.
INTRODUCTION
This book aims to prevent the reader from making the same mistakes I made during my lifetime of back pain. This book is a quick, easy-to-read, easy-to-understand, and comprehensive guide to the proper care of your back when experiencing