Back Pain: Chinese Qigong for Healing & Prevention

After becoming disgusted with the western aproach to back pain (drugs,drugs and more drugs) i began to look for myself into various alternative methods and came upon this book. While i'm not 100% convinced of the whole philosphy of Chi and chinese medicine these exercises really and truly work. Within a week i could feel my back becoming stronger, after a month the backache that had been bothering me for years had all but disapeard. I cannot recommend this book enough.

Dr Yang--the author--is very experienced in the healing art of Qigong. He used it extensively first hand on himself to conquer a major ailment he 'had'. I looked into 3 other Qigong books and found them VERY superficial with 'pretty' pictures but never the depth of knowledge and clear presentation that Dr Yang gives. Furthermore he does it with humility, only pointing out what he really knows first hand. I have a minor back muscle spasm condition and already 2 weeks into these excercises--just starting to get an inkling of the feel of 'moving' the Qi around to unblock internal Qi=Energy chanels--i can already feel a marked difference in the relaxation of my condition! Dr Yang won't 'let you' get immediately into the exercises BEFORE you've read all the history and theory of Qigong. He extensively compares Western medical ways of 'repairing' versus maintaining health as is the focus of Qigong practice. (Qigong also helps to 'repairs' by the way...) Good book; one can order a video to actually SEE the excercises