Kay Bartrow is not only an experienced physiotherapist, lecturer and health consultant. He is also a proven author. Because his new work “The Little Coach for Sciatica and ISG” is already his 28th book. “Agatha Christie wrote 66 books, so I’m not bad at all,” he says in an interview with the editors and laughs.
Pain that many people know
However, Bartrow’s books are less about mysterious criminal cases than about complaints that many people are familiar with. Whether shoulder, jaw or feet, the expert has already illuminated many parts of the body in a way that is easy to understand. In addition to books for specialist audiences, it is primarily the practical instructions for those suffering from pain that are well received by readers.
The new 120-page work primarily contains exercises to combat pain and stiffness around sciatica and the sacroiliac joint (SIJ). Experience has shown that many people are affected by this: “Around 30 million people are looking Deutschland “I see a doctor every year because of back pain,” says Bartrow. These complaints are often non-specific. He therefore advises those suffering from pain to try out what works for them. “The main cause is often too much pressure,” says the physiotherapist. It is often difficult to determine whether the cause is a tense muscle, swelling in the tissue or inflammation.
He wants to encourage patients to become active themselves
But in 29 years as a physiotherapist and several years as a fitness trainer, he has also discovered that “there are many myths when it comes to back pain”. He therefore wanted to encourage people suffering from pain to slowly approach exercise. On 35 pages, the author explains how sciatica and SIJ work together and provides valuable information about symptoms and causes.
And then it gets practical: 85 pages describe and illustrate exercises that are supposed to put an end to the pain. An acute program in the book provides initial relief, “but there is also a sitting program because many people don’t have time to train outside of the office,” he explains. The intention is that the entry into a more active life for the benefit of the lower back should be as low-threshold as possible. “Sitting is not the new smoking, but the dose is the poison here too. If you change your sitting position regularly and try something different, you reduce the pressure,” he says.
“You make your own luck”
His book aims to help people help themselves and encourage them to integrate more exercise into their everyday lives. “To blame his office job as the reason for the monotonous attitude and reduced activity means giving up responsibility,” he emphasizes. “But everyone is the creator of their own luck and there is no wrong move except the one that doesn’t happen,” warns the expert. Knowing full well that it is not always easy to give up habits you have grown fond of. “But life is actually too short for the same habits all the time,” he adds and laughs.
Maybe except for one thing: writing books. Because Kay Bartrow still has a lot in her head that needs to be written down. “But first a specialist book will be published in its fourth edition on the subject of diagnostics in physiotherapy,” he says. “My first standard work, I’m proud of it.”
“The little coach for sciatica and SIJ” was published by Trias-Verlag and is available in bookstores.