The Daily Telegraph Backache: The Complete Guide to Relief

This bulky little paperback reprints two American books. The first of these, published I think in the early 1980s, though no bibliographic history is given, was compiled by advertising for back pain sufferers in various popular journals, mainly Family Weekly, and then interviewing the respondents to see what treatments they had used, and what benefits they thought they had received. This came up with some interesting results ‐ I must admit that I greatly enjoyed the fact that, though the majority of respondents felt that stress had played a part in increasing their back pain, there were more psychotherapists...