Pain free ?

A doctor recommended me the book "Pain free. A revolutionary method for stopping chronic pain". It arrived by snailmail on Friday, and yesterday morning I spent the first hours in bed reading the first chapters. This american author thinks that all pain can be cured through physical exercises, not surgically.

So - he promises me that the pain should subsides after a week of doing five exercises for 20 minutes every morning.

I can´t say anything that I am willing to do the exercises, and would be very happy if they would work. I have done some similar exercises earlier, which had no special effect, but maybe these are exactly the ones I need.

In the first exercise I sit on the edge of a chair and squeeze a pillow between my knees (three sets of fifteen). Then I lay down on my back with my feet up on the chair and do the pillow squeeze. In the third exercise I lay down with my forehead on the floor and my arms resting in the "don´t shoot, I give up"-position. This position should be held for six minutes.

The fourth exercise is a static extension, where I kneel with my hands on the floor under the shoulders. The back should sway and my hips should be in front of the knees. This position should be held for one minute.

In the last exercise I sit down against a wall with my shoulders and head against the wall for a minute.

I let you know if this really is a revolutionary method...!