Abstract

The key to curing ailments throughout the body lies in the cervical spine—the bones of the neck!

The long-awaited sequel to the bestselling book "Amazing Hip Joints" is finally here. This time, the theme is the cervical spine—the bones of the neck. Persistent stiff shoulders, recurring lower back pain... What if the cause lies in the neck?

Excessive smartphone use and desk work put a strain on the neck, causing symptoms such as stiff shoulders, headaches, lower back pain, insomnia, and dizziness. The number of people suffering from such neck problems is increasing rapidly.

The neck is truly "the only place where God made a mistake in designing the human body," asserts Shuichi James Nakano, the author of this book and a leading physical trainer.

If you don't properly care for your neck, you will continue to experience stiff shoulders and lower back pain. By understanding the structure of the cervical spine, resolving smartphone neck and straight neck conditions, and correcting spinal alignment, you can improve symptoms throughout your body such as stiff shoulders, headaches, and lower back pain.

Trusted by top athletes including Olympic athletes, medalists, and the Aoyama Gakuin University Ekiden team, and also providing guidance on lifestyle-related diseases and locomotive syndrome prevention, the author shares all the methods he actually uses in practice. The exercises introduced in this book are explained with accompanying videos of the author himself demonstrating them.

Author’s Information

Physical trainer. Certified Exercise Physiologist by the American College of Sports Medicine. Chief Technology Officer of Sports Motivation. A leading "physical trainer" who helps solve various problems by improving physical function, from enhancing athletic performance and injury prevention to addressing locomotive syndrome and lifestyle-related diseases. He is widely supported by top athletes and the general public, and has been in charge of physical strengthening guidance for the Aoyama Gakuin University Ekiden team since 2014. He is highly regarded for his guidance that goes beyond treating muscles and joints individually, and instead deciphers the causes of physical discomfort and functional decline from the perspective of posture, movement, and the connections of the whole body, leading to improvement. He serves as the technical director of "CLUB100," a membership-based personal training facility in Kagurazaka, Tokyo. He has authored many bestsellers, including "The First Book to Read When Your Doctor Tells You to Exercise" and "Amazing Hip Joints" (both published by Nikkei BP).