Gerard Girasole, MD, an orthopedic spine surgeon at The Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Center in Trumbull, Connecticut. He is coauthor, with Cara Hartman, CPT, a Fairfield, Connecticut–based certified personal trainer, of The 7-Minute Back Pain Solution—7 Simple Exercises to Heal Your Back without Drugs or Surgery in Just Minutes a Day (Harlequin).
A surgeon tells how stretching may help you avoid surgery Of the more than 30 million Americans who suffer from…
