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Title: Crooked

Subtitle: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery

Author: Cathryn Jakobson Ramin

Narrator: Cathryn Jakobson Ramin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-17

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 77 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Medicine

Publisher's Summary:

The acclaimed author of Carved in Sand - a veteran investigative journalist who endured persistent back pain for decades - delivers the definitive book on the subject: an essential examination of all facets of the back pain industry, exploring what works, what doesn't, what may cause harm, and how to get on the road to recovery.

In her effort to manage her chronic back pain, investigative reporter Cathryn Jakobson Ramin spent years and a small fortune on a panoply of treatments. But her discomfort only intensified, leaving her feeling frustrated and perplexed. As she searched for better solutions, she exposed a much bigger problem. Costing roughly $100 billion a year, spine medicine - often ineffective and sometimes harmful - exemplified the worst aspects of the US health-care system.

The result of six years of intensive investigation, Crooked offers a startling look at the poorly identified risks of spine medicine and provides practical advice and solutions. Ramin interviewed scores of spine surgeons, pain management doctors, physical medicine and rehabilitation physicians, exercise physiologists, physical therapists, chiropractors, and specialized bodywork practitioners. She met with many patients whose pain and desperation led them to make life-altering decisions and with others who triumphed over their limitations.

The result is a brilliant and comprehensive book that is not only important but essential to millions of back pain sufferers and all types of health-care professionals. Ramin shatters assumptions about surgery, chiropractic methods, physical therapy, spinal injections, and painkillers and addresses evidence-based rehabilitation options - showing, in detail, how to avoid therapeutic dead ends while saving money, time, and considerable anguish. With Crooked, she reveals what it takes to outwit the back pain industry and get on the road to recovery.

Members Reviews:

great story and great info

the best part of this book is the decision making Tools in her woven. This means the book answers questions like how can you tell that your yoga teacher or physical therapist or even physician is qualified to give you advice.

where is the nutrition?

like the industry itself the absenace of nutritional consideration is disturbing. also your experience with one chiropractor does not give you the right to slander the whole progression.

Overall message is excellent, but not for everyone

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

The overall messages that 1. doctors have no quick fixes, 2. back surgery is dicey and recommendations are influenced by $, and 3. getting better can be a part time job for the patient are all valid and important. But I think the author fails to recognize that not every patient is exactly like herself.

Any additional comments?

Early on in the book she says she thought fixing her back would be like fixing a broken wrist--easy! The wrist has a gazillion little bones in it. Not easy to fix. That's when I knew I had to listen with critical ears. She also says Loyola Hospital is located in Mayfield instead of Maywood, IL--which is weird since she says up front that she had 3 fact checkers look through her text before publishing.