--- product_id: 1702579 title: "Treat Your Own Neck" price: "€ 29.37" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.gr/products/1702579-treat-your-own-neck store_origin: GR region: Greece --- # Treat Your Own Neck **Price:** € 29.37 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Treat Your Own Neck - **How much does it cost?** € 29.37 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.gr](https://www.desertcart.gr/products/1702579-treat-your-own-neck) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description This Patient Handbook Provides a Self-Treatment Plan to Help You Diagnose, Alleviate, Treat and Manage Neck Pain Quickly and Effectively At some point during their life, most people experience neck pain or pain from the neck that is felt across the shoulders, in the shoulder blade or the upper or lower arm. This type of pain can sometimes even be felt in the hand, or as pins and needles or numbness in the fingers. It can also cause headaches. If you are experiencing neck or cervical spine pain, you may have found treatments provided by doctors, physical therapists, chiropractors or other medical professionals that help the pain go away briefly, only to return later. If you are experiencing recurring persistent neck pain, then this book is for you. Written by internationally renowned physiotherapist Robin McKenzie, Treat Your Own Neck provides an easy-to-follow neck treatment plan to help you diagnose, alleviate, treat and manage debilitating neck pain quickly and effectively. You will gain an understanding of how the vertebrae and spine work, a background of common causes of neck pain, and simple neck stretches and exercises to move towards stiff neck relief and neck pain relief. In Treat Your Own Neck you’ll learn: How the vertebrae and spine work What healthy, natural posture looks like How to move towards optimal neck health The basics of mechanical pain Causes of mechanical pain including overstretching, tissue damage and bulging discs Common causes of neck pain and how to prevent it How the McKenzie Method works A simple exercise program to help treat and prevent neck pain What to do when experiencing acute neck pain How to prevent the recurrence of pain Written by Robin McKenzie. Illustrated. Softcover; 80 pages. Published On: 2023-10-02 Review: Priceless - I rarely write reviews. I should, just don't have/make the time. But this book changed my life after nothing else worked and I was literally minutes from surgery. I had injured my C7-T1 disk such that it was significantly herniated and pressing on the C8 nerve root. For 3 months, I went to physical therapy, slept in a chair every night in a weird position that provided some relief, and saw various pain specialists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, and orthopedic surgeons. When nothing helped I scheduled a keyhole laminectomy with a world-renowned neurosurgeon. At the same time, a family member who had neck issues (he is also a radiologist) urged me to try this book before getting surgery. Having had 2 lower back surgeries in the past, I was familiar with the greatly unpleasant process of recovering from spinal surgery and was willing to anything to avoid it. But I was risking permanent nerve damage by delaying much further. So I kept my surgery date and started the McKenzie Method immediately and with all my vigor as soon as the book arrived. To me, this book was worth, literally, at least 1,000 times its price (considering just the costs of surgery and physical therapy, and not including all the pain and suffering it saved me). It explains in the perfect amount of detail exactly what is happening and why, allowing the reader to understand the problem and how the exercises work to treat the problem, helping the reader visualize the cure while doing the exercises. After 2 weeks of doing the exercises, my pain had subsided considerably, but I still showed up for surgery because it was not entirely gone, and I felt that the dexterity and strength I lost in my left hand due to the nerve compression had not returned. I was in the pre-op room at the hospital, in my gown, nurses and anesthesiologist coming in and prepping. Then my surgeon walks in with a team of med students behind him, eager to observe the procedure. He runs through the series of simple tests we had done during office visits (squeeze his fingers to test strength, etc.), and then he tells me that the surgery is off. He said I had shown such great improvement in such a short amount of time that it is clearly evidence of recovery that he expected to continue without risking further nerve damage. I refer to it as the best surgery I never had, and I truly believe that I owe it to the McKenzie Method. Thank you, thank you, thank you Robin McKenzie. This was over 3 years ago. Although I made a full recovery without surgery, I have had occasional (maybe once every 6 months) minor relapses (pain in the neck and shoulder blade, sometimes a little numbness in the pinkie). Immediately upon onset of the pain, I use the exercises in the book and the pain goes away (usually within the day, but sometimes a couple of days). I have also purchased McKenzie's book for the lower back and try to follow its wisdom regularly. It, too, is very well written. I tend to be one of those readers who wants to flip to the exercises, which are in the middle-back of both books. But after reading both books multiple times, I can verify that there is great benefit to starting on page 1 and reading through. At least in my case, the explanation of the anatomy, movement, and problems was spot on, and therefore provided a calming effect. The explanation of the movement of pain during recovery while doing the exercises was equally spot on, and greatly encouraging. Review: It works... - About 15 years ago I starting having problems with my back. I found out later I have a ".. herniated, stenotic, L5..". I was off work a month, used moist heat, got a little PT, and finally a Cortisone shot. It's a long story, but by the time my insurance would pay for the shot I was feeling much better. I went ahead and had the shot as sort of a prophylactic measure. Anyway, when I got back to work (I was doing work in a few LTAC places) one of the PT guys there told me to "...forget anything they told you and do what I tell you!" Turns out he was trained in the 'McKenzie Method'. He gave me a few exercises to do, and a little information about why it works. Vola! It helped, maybe more than all the other things put together. Since then I have never really had any trouble with my back. It's still there of course, but I baby it, and try not to do anything to aggravate it. If it starts to hurt I do a few simple exercises, and it gets better. So far so good.... You may ask...what does this have to do with treating your NECK? Ok....about a couple months or so ago, I woke up with some really bad pain in my neck, shoulder area. At first I thought I had just strained it or something, but it wouldn't go away, and was really bothering me quite a bit. I gradually begin to realise that this wasn't just a strain, but was probably something to do with the disk in my neck. Sure enough it was confirmed via a MRI that I have ".. degenerative disk disease..", with a herniated, C4-5, and narrowing between the C6-7. It sucks being 58 years old ya know...! Who knows when it started. It could have been all the physical labor I used to do for a living. It could've been when I played football...couldn't been a couple of sucker punches I've had....not to mention the few times I have 'BUMPED' my head on something( I walked right into the chute of a Concrete truck once. Knocked me out to for a second. I went right back to work. Ah youth..it's wasted on youth!)...who knows? It is just catching up with me... Anyway, when this neck trouble started I got busy trying to see what I could about McKenzie treatments for the Neck. I found this book, bought it, and it works! I think between this, and the McKenzie Neck Roll, my neck feels much better today...thank you. Honestly...I didn't even follow it line for line. I took a couple of the exercises, and started doing them. It didn't take long, but soon my neck was feeling good enough I told my Doc to hold off on the Cortisone shot for now. It didn't make the hernia go away, but it sure made the pain go away. Like my Back I intend to baby my neck until that doesn't work anymore...then go from there. I am here to tell you the McKenzie Method works..at least it did for me, and I hope it works for you. Get the book and try it! Good luck! ## Features - NEW 5th edition by Robin McKenzie - Excellent for both patient and clinician - Includes information on causes of neck pain, when to exercise, and specific exercise techniques - Also features: revised and updated content, new research studies, new photos, new simplified layout ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #5,960 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1 in Disability #4 in Musculoskeletal Diseases (Books) #14 in Pain Management (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,276 Reviews | ## Images ![Treat Your Own Neck - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/7104O4abYgL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Priceless *by Y***P on July 5, 2016* I rarely write reviews. I should, just don't have/make the time. But this book changed my life after nothing else worked and I was literally minutes from surgery. I had injured my C7-T1 disk such that it was significantly herniated and pressing on the C8 nerve root. For 3 months, I went to physical therapy, slept in a chair every night in a weird position that provided some relief, and saw various pain specialists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, and orthopedic surgeons. When nothing helped I scheduled a keyhole laminectomy with a world-renowned neurosurgeon. At the same time, a family member who had neck issues (he is also a radiologist) urged me to try this book before getting surgery. Having had 2 lower back surgeries in the past, I was familiar with the greatly unpleasant process of recovering from spinal surgery and was willing to anything to avoid it. But I was risking permanent nerve damage by delaying much further. So I kept my surgery date and started the McKenzie Method immediately and with all my vigor as soon as the book arrived. To me, this book was worth, literally, at least 1,000 times its price (considering just the costs of surgery and physical therapy, and not including all the pain and suffering it saved me). It explains in the perfect amount of detail exactly what is happening and why, allowing the reader to understand the problem and how the exercises work to treat the problem, helping the reader visualize the cure while doing the exercises. After 2 weeks of doing the exercises, my pain had subsided considerably, but I still showed up for surgery because it was not entirely gone, and I felt that the dexterity and strength I lost in my left hand due to the nerve compression had not returned. I was in the pre-op room at the hospital, in my gown, nurses and anesthesiologist coming in and prepping. Then my surgeon walks in with a team of med students behind him, eager to observe the procedure. He runs through the series of simple tests we had done during office visits (squeeze his fingers to test strength, etc.), and then he tells me that the surgery is off. He said I had shown such great improvement in such a short amount of time that it is clearly evidence of recovery that he expected to continue without risking further nerve damage. I refer to it as the best surgery I never had, and I truly believe that I owe it to the McKenzie Method. Thank you, thank you, thank you Robin McKenzie. This was over 3 years ago. Although I made a full recovery without surgery, I have had occasional (maybe once every 6 months) minor relapses (pain in the neck and shoulder blade, sometimes a little numbness in the pinkie). Immediately upon onset of the pain, I use the exercises in the book and the pain goes away (usually within the day, but sometimes a couple of days). I have also purchased McKenzie's book for the lower back and try to follow its wisdom regularly. It, too, is very well written. I tend to be one of those readers who wants to flip to the exercises, which are in the middle-back of both books. But after reading both books multiple times, I can verify that there is great benefit to starting on page 1 and reading through. At least in my case, the explanation of the anatomy, movement, and problems was spot on, and therefore provided a calming effect. The explanation of the movement of pain during recovery while doing the exercises was equally spot on, and greatly encouraging. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ It works... *by B***S on May 6, 2013* About 15 years ago I starting having problems with my back. I found out later I have a ".. herniated, stenotic, L5..". I was off work a month, used moist heat, got a little PT, and finally a Cortisone shot. It's a long story, but by the time my insurance would pay for the shot I was feeling much better. I went ahead and had the shot as sort of a prophylactic measure. Anyway, when I got back to work (I was doing work in a few LTAC places) one of the PT guys there told me to "...forget anything they told you and do what I tell you!" Turns out he was trained in the 'McKenzie Method'. He gave me a few exercises to do, and a little information about why it works. Vola! It helped, maybe more than all the other things put together. Since then I have never really had any trouble with my back. It's still there of course, but I baby it, and try not to do anything to aggravate it. If it starts to hurt I do a few simple exercises, and it gets better. So far so good.... You may ask...what does this have to do with treating your NECK? Ok....about a couple months or so ago, I woke up with some really bad pain in my neck, shoulder area. At first I thought I had just strained it or something, but it wouldn't go away, and was really bothering me quite a bit. I gradually begin to realise that this wasn't just a strain, but was probably something to do with the disk in my neck. Sure enough it was confirmed via a MRI that I have ".. degenerative disk disease..", with a herniated, C4-5, and narrowing between the C6-7. It sucks being 58 years old ya know...! Who knows when it started. It could have been all the physical labor I used to do for a living. It could've been when I played football...couldn't been a couple of sucker punches I've had....not to mention the few times I have 'BUMPED' my head on something( I walked right into the chute of a Concrete truck once. Knocked me out to for a second. I went right back to work. Ah youth..it's wasted on youth!)...who knows? It is just catching up with me... Anyway, when this neck trouble started I got busy trying to see what I could about McKenzie treatments for the Neck. I found this book, bought it, and it works! I think between this, and the McKenzie Neck Roll, my neck feels much better today...thank you. Honestly...I didn't even follow it line for line. I took a couple of the exercises, and started doing them. It didn't take long, but soon my neck was feeling good enough I told my Doc to hold off on the Cortisone shot for now. It didn't make the hernia go away, but it sure made the pain go away. Like my Back I intend to baby my neck until that doesn't work anymore...then go from there. I am here to tell you the McKenzie Method works..at least it did for me, and I hope it works for you. Get the book and try it! Good luck! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Not a cure all, but a help. *by A***L on July 13, 2014* The advice in this book most certainly does not necessarily help, but it certainly does not hurt. It's a good guide for someone dealing with ongoing or long term neck injury. I purchased it as a companion to the cervical pillow (which I've already rated). It's a resource and one that I found useful and extremely well written with sound practical advice. There was nothing banal about it. Short, to the point and easy to navigate. It's not a cure for a neck injury, as anyone that suffers from herniated discs will tell you - but it is a good guide for giving oneself the best chance and keeping as comfortable as possible. ## Frequently Bought Together - Treat Your Own Neck 5th Ed - Treat Your Own Shoulder --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.gr/products/1702579-treat-your-own-neck](https://www.desertcart.gr/products/1702579-treat-your-own-neck) --- *Product available on Desertcart Greece* *Store origin: GR* *Last updated: 2026-05-27*