The Complete Treat Your Own McKenzie Series
The Complete Treat Your Own McKenzie Series
$120.00
Due to popular demand, we have created a set of the entire ‘Treat Your Own Series’ comprising of 6 books.
What’s included:
- Treat Your Own Back
- Treat Your Own Neck
- Treat Your Own Shoulder
- Treat Your Own Knee
- Treat Your Own Hip
- Treat Your Own Ankle & Achilles Tendon
These patient handbooks provide easy to follow self-treatment plans to quickly and effectively diagnose, alleviate, treat and manage debilitating pains, even for the long-term sufferer. These books distil the essence of the McKenzie Method® of Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy®, as taught to medical professionals worldwide, in an understandable format.
The Mckenzie Method Story
Robin McKenzie made an astonishing discovery early on in his career as a physiotherapist.
By placing a patient’s back in a controlled extended position, the patient reported their back pain beginning to disappear.
Knowing he was on to something, he started testing this with other patients, and got similar results.
After 10 hard years of collecting data, and 1000s of patient trials, Robin McKenzie introduced to the medical world proof of his discovery – they were shocked.
Introducing: The McKenzie Method.
Over the following decades, the McKenzie Method would turn into a global phenomenon, with Robin McKenzie becoming one of the world’s most renowned physiotherapists and the McKenzie Method being in use by tens of thousands of Physiotherapists worldwide.
But he needed a way for patient’s to be able to easily maintain this back position for longer periods of time. So, Robin had his wife, Joy, hand-make a prototype on his kitchen table, and the very first McKenzie Method lumbar roll was born.
In 1980, the first “Treat Your Own Back” book was published, allowing people experiencing back pain to treat their own back pain using the highly successful and proven McKenzie Method treatment techniques.
It has since sold over 5 million copies worldwide.
The new Signature Super Lumbar roll captures the success of that first roll made on Robin’s kitchen table, now with over 60 years of refinement and perfection – and still made in New Zealand.
Be a part of the McKenzie story with your very own McKenzie Method Lumbar Roll
Lower Back Exercises to Pair With Your The Mckenzie Lumbar Roll
Try these exercises in conjunction with your Mckenzie Lumbar Roll for best results:
An extract from the book: ‘Mckenzie Method Treat Your Own Back’
Lie face down (Position 1), and then place your hands under your shoulders in the press-up position (Position 2). Now you are ready to begin the exercise.
As you straighten your elbows, push the top half of your body up as far as pain permits (Position 3). It is important that you completely relax the pelvis, hips and legs as you do this, and remember to keep breathing normally.
Keep your pelvis, hips and legs hanging limp and allow your low back to sag. • maintain this position for a second or two, then lower yourself to the starting position. • repeat this movement cycle in a smooth rhythmical motion and try to raise your upper body a little higher each time, so that in the end your back is extended as much as possible, with your arms as straight as possible (Position 4).
Once your arms are straight, remember to hold the sag for a second or two as this is the most important part of the exercise. A more effective sag can be achieved by breathing all the way out while relaxing your low back, hips and legs. The sag may be maintained for longer than one or two seconds if you feel the pain is reducing or centralising.
16 reviews for The Complete Treat Your Own McKenzie Series
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Joanne –
I haven’t looked at the books yet due to time, but I can review that they were sent really quickly and received well. Books look lovely and new and perfect in a book box sleeve.
Elizabeth –
Small, easy to read, plain language booklets with excellent information about symptoms and suggestions/simple exercises for how you can remedy these yourself.
Michele Sweeney –
The methods in these books have saved my physical fitness- I can do anything I want knowing I can heal myself! I do daily exercises and rarely need professional help! THANK YOU
Jennifer Stone –
Anonymous –
Oh so promptly sent and very easy to read. Now, all I need to do is put it into practice 🙂
Carole Wilson –
A must have for movement addicts – have helped me so much with a persistent lower back problem caused by long term postural and core weakness that I wasn’t really aware of and I couldn’t believe it is was so simple to fix. My lovely physio who is McKenzie method trained put me on these exercises when nothing else really helped. I have the complete set to refer to now for any further issues (hopefully this won’t happen but now I have the confidence in understanding the why of an injury and how to help myself to heal) And the lumbar rolls are terrific – I have one permanently in the car now.
Sharon P. –
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Anonymous –
Great books. Easy to follow.
Caroline Taylor –
Great service great books every household should have a set may I add. Thank you.
Anne –
Teresa –
Impressed with the prompt delivery and quality of product. Very informative and helpful in self treatment.
Robert Durant –
Great information- really does work!
Alison –
Love these books, have purchased in the past, then loaned them to people and they are not returned! I have been doing the neck and back exercises as maintenance for years.
I now have the complete series so am working on my knee and I am not going to let this set out of my possession!
Irene –
Very useful set of books to have in your library
Christopher S. –
The book on back problems incredibly helpful