Your back can be healthier and more comfortable! Eliminate current back and leg problems. Prevent future back and leg pain. Relax Your Back With A Roller isn’t just an exercise book! Part of the therapy you’ll gain is important knowledge to apply throughout your day. This 60 page book contains twenty eight exercises that are lessons loaded with keys for being active and comfortable.

Movement expert Pamela Kihm, author of the award winning book Stop Sciatica Now, wrote this book to be used with a 6” diameter Styrofoam™ roller, 36” long. However, you can adapt a narrower roller to use for these lessons by wrapping it with a folded blanket.

Relax Your Back With A Roller has 56 photographs, plus 14 illustrations, making it easy to see the movements and postures described in the text.

Within these pages you will discover:
Your roller can assist you to position your body in ways that are more healthful for your spine – for your whole body.
You can use your roller for easy exercises to speed your recovery from back and leg pain.
These gentle exercises will restore flexibility you may have thought was gone forever.
Practicing all that you learn through this book can help prevent future episodes of pain.

After years of trying to move through an active life in spite of severe knee pain, doctors informed Moshe Feldenkrais that surgery might help him. However doctors admitted that there was only a 50% chance his pain would be eliminated. They also admitted that the surgery might cause him to lose some of his mobility. This was the 1940’s, twenty-some years after he had torn his knee at a right angle playing soccer while at Sorbonne University in France earning his engineering degree.

Instead of having the surgery, or continuing to force himself through pain, Dr. Feldenkrais zeroed in what he was doing differently when the pain wasn’t as severe. He applied engineering principles to his own body. Those around him couldn’t help but notice his improved movement and lack of pain. As he helped others, the Feldenkrais Method® of Somatic Education developed. He began training assistants to accommodate the large number of people coming to him for help. Now there are over 3,000 Feldenkrais Practitioners worldwide.