Manage your pain and conquer back problems once and for all! Dr. Jeffrey Katz, a leading back specialist at HarvardMedical School, offers you state-of-the-art strategies for managing back pain, proven techniques for preventing back pain from occurring or recurring, and expert guidance on when you should consider more serious treatment, such as surgery. He also presents exercises that can improve your back strength and health, impartial coverage of the most popular alternative treatments, and the latest on which painmedications are safest and most effective. Dr. Jeffrey N. Katz is an associate professor of medicine and orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School, codirector of the Brigham Spine Center, director of the Orthopaedic and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and deputy editor of the journal Spine.