How to Deal with Back Pain and Rheumatoid Joint Pain: A Preventive and Self Treatment Manual for Those Who Prefer to Adhere to the Logic of the Natural and the Simple - Softcover

Many millions of people suffer from debilitating low back pain. Few imagine that drinking more plain water might help them cure it. This book, however, unlike any other 'how-to' book on the market, explains that very often chronic back pain is a signal indicating a severe general or local dehydration in the back or other joints and areas of the body. Most of these pains, says the author, can be relieved by ordinary tap water, but instead often receive only costly pharmaceutical medications. The book also explains the important role water plays in holding the spinal column together and provides and demonstrates with photographs a series of simple exercises for the successful hydration of the disc core, the retraction of displaced discs and immediate relief from sciatic pain.

Dr Fereydoon Batmanghelidj (1931-2004) is the celebrated author of the famous 'Water Cure' series of books, including Your Body's Many Cries for Water, which has itself sold over a million copies worldwide and been translated into some 20 languages . The full series which also features Water & Salt, Your Healers fron Within and How to Deal with Back Pain and Rheumatoid Joint Pain, is published by The Tagman Press. 'Dr B' was born in Iran. Educated in Scotland, he later studied medicine under Sir Alexander Fleming. He practised medicine in Tehran until 1979, when he was imprisoned and sentenced to death during the violent revolution that overthrew the Shah. While in prison he discovered the healing powers of plain water by prescribing a single glass for a prisoner dying of acute stomach pain, Pardoned because of the discovery, he was released in 1982 and escaped to the USA, where he set up the Foundation for the Simple in Medicine to explore and communicate his discovery that dehydration is the true cuase of many illnesses.