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Healing Back and Joint Injuries

Dr. Joseph Valdez
Greenleaf Book Group Press (2009)
ISBN 9781929774791
Reviewed by Randy A. Lakin for RebeccasReads.Com (08/09)


I’m not a doctor, but having had a bad back for nineteen years I have learned a lot.  I have to say that Doctor Joseph Valdez’s book, “Healing Back and Joint Injuries”, was a delight to read.  Dr. Valdez breaks the information down so it is easy to understand, unlike some books written by doctors where you need a dictionary to understand them.  “Healing Back and Joint Injuries” starts at the very beginning with basic terms and illustrations.  When Dr. Valdez talks about a bad back or a knee joint he includes drawings that shows all the parts and their names.  I have seen a lot of medical books written by medical professionals that assume you have been to medical school, not so with Dr. Valdez.  In his book, “Healing Back and Joint Injuries”, Dr. Valdez describes a medical procedure that a lot of us have not heard about, and that procedure is called Prolotherapy.

Prolotherapy therapy is short for proliferative therapy, also known as reconstructive therapy or a type of regenerative injection therapy.  Dr. Valdez does an excellent job of explaining the process in his book.  The short version is that a solution is injected into various locations depending on what problems you are having.  At which point the solution stimulates the body natural response to injury, and causes the body to begin the natural process towards healing.

“Healing Back and Joint Injuries”, starts out by explaining what it means to be injured.  Dr. Valdez gives you a brief explanation of Anatomy 101 as he calls it.  Then he move into explaining what pain is and heads towards giving you an understanding of the first steps of healing.  My personal opinion of Dr. Valdez’s book, “Healing Back and Joint Injuries”; that it is one of the best ones on the market, and I have read several in the nineteen years since my initial back injury.  If you are looking for a good book that will explain the what’s and how’s of your injury, or if you are looking for a good book that explains the different types of treatment and procedures then look no further.  “Healing Back and Joint Injuries”, will give you all that information in one book.  This is one book that is a must have for anyone with a back or joint injury, and I should know because I have had both and I only wish Dr. Valdez had written this book  back in 1990 instead of 2009.

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