This established bestseller, newly updated and revised, is based on a new survey by BackCare, the UK's biggest back-pain charity, and offers the best hope of real pain relief and long-term well-being. Using the results of BackCare's survey of more than 2,000 back-pain sufferers, it gives their opinions on treatments that really work, both orthodox and complementary. It also looks at the role of nutrition, exercise, surgery, drugs and complementary therapies in pain relief and prevention, plus the latest on symptom relief and side-effects of medication.