Back Pain: Finding solutions for your aching back
This impactful course shares the steps and strategies men and women just like you are using to successfully and permanently overcome and eliminate back pain. NOTE: This course has been updated. If you purchased the original edition, you can still access and use the course. In order to access the update, you can purchase the new version at www.harvardhealthonlinelearning.com/catalog.
The end. When it comes to back pain, there’s no better place to start. When back pain occurs, you want it to end. You want to get on with all the things you need to do, want to do, and love to do. That’s where this new online course will take you. To the end of your back pain, to putting the brakes on the aches, to hastening relief, and helping you to a future secure and free from back pain. This interactive course will show you how to quell and conquer your back pain safely and successfully. You’ll discover strategies for conditions ranging from bulging discs to compression fractures ...from strains and sprains to spondylitis and spinal stenosis. You’ll understand the risk factors and the keys to an accurate diagnosis. You’ll learn treatment strategies, including the latest therapeutic and surgical options. And you’ll find proven tips and techniques for a stronger back.
Dr. Leonaura Rhodes
Dr. Leonaura Rhodes is a physician turned author and health writer. She is a content developer and medical writer for Harvard Health Publishing and Belvoir Media Group. Prior to her work as a medical writer, Dr. Rhodes served as a physician in the UK and as a health coach in the US. In 2014, she authored the book Beyond Soccer Mom: Strategies for a Fabulous Balanced Life. In her medical career, Dr. Rhodes has worked in hospital medicine, general practice, developmental pediatrics, and public health. She gained her MD (MB ChB) from the University of Manchester and her Masters in Public Health (MPH) from the University of London. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and two children.
Mallika Marshall, MD
Mallika Marshall, MD, is an Emmy-award winning journalist and physician who serves as the regular Health Reporter at WBZ-TV in Boston. A practicing physician who is Board Certified in both internal medicine and pediatrics, Marshall serves on staff at Harvard Medical School and practices at the Massachusetts General Hospital's (MGH) Chelsea Urgent Care Clinic and MGH Revere Health Center. Marshall is currently a Contributing Editor for Harvard Health Publications, the publishing division of Harvard Medical School. Dr Marshall also has served as the host of “Dr. Mallika Marshall,” a series of health news reports that was nationally syndicated and aired in more than 70 markets, including major cities such as San Francisco, Atlanta, St. Louis, Cleveland, and Houston. A cum laude graduate of Harvard College, Marshall received her medical degree with honors at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine. She completed her medical residency at Harvard in internal medicine and pediatrics.
Jeffrey N. Katz, MD, MS - Faculty Editor
Jeffrey N. Katz, MD, MS graduated from Princeton University in 1980, attended Yale Medical School, and completed a medical internship and residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital and a Rheumatology fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He received a Master’s Degree in 1990 at Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Katz is currently Associate Professor of Medicine and Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Dr. Katz has focused his research on the evaluation and outcomes of musculoskeletal disorders including carpal tunnel syndrome, lumbar spinal stenosis and osteoarthritis and lower extremity joint replacement. Dr. Katz is Director of the Orthopaedic and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is Principal Investigator of the Brigham Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Center (an NIH P60 Center), the MeTeOR Trial (a five center RCT of the efficacy of arthroscopic partial meniscectomy) and a NIAMS funded T32 clinical research training program. He is Deputy Editor for Methodology of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery and served on the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Musculoskeletal Disorders and the Workplace.
