Understand Your Backache: A Guide to Prevention, Treatment & Relief

Not surprisingly, when I was in physical therapy school, our anatomy text was Gray's Anatomy. Because the text is so detailed, we would occasionally ask our teacher how much we had to know. The answer was always the same: "Know everything. You can't know enough anatomy."

Obviously, keeping anatomical details in mind is difficult at best, yet a thorough knowledge of lumbo-sacral anatomy is critical when working with Yoga students who may be suffering from lower back pain. Cailliet's book makes this task easier for several reasons