Stabbed in the Back: Confronting Back Pain in an Overtreated Society

Nortin Hadler knows backaches. For more than three decades as a physician and medical researcher, he has studied the experience of low back pain in people who are otherwise healthy. In this book, he addresses the history and treatment of the ailment, taking the “Hadlerian” approach to backaches and the backache treatment industry in order to separate the helpful from the hype.