Play Golf Forever

Play Golf Forever offers the program developed by Dr. Michael Jaffe to tone and treat low back muscles stressed by golf. Describing the causes, necessary testing, proper posture control, and various medical treatments for low back pain, this book helps you take control and win back your golf game!

The functional training and core strengthening exercises taught in this book not only treat and prevent low back pain but also help improve your swing and athletic abilities.

Through step-by-step instructions with detailed photographs, you will learn exercises for the home or gym, stretches on the tee, and proper technique for improving your swing–a winning combination for improving your game and life.

Endoresments

“This book is the easiest to understand of all the exercise books I’ve seen. The concepts are clear and the illustrated exercises make it fool proof for me.”

A.J. Bonar
Head Teaching Professional AJ Golf School
Teaching Professional for players on the PGA, LPGA
Contributing Instruction editor to Golf Magazine, Golf Illustrated and Golf Tips Magazine

“Being familiar with lower back pain, I am most impressed with the comprehensive approach the author takes.  This practical and well focused text is packed with critical information for making golf a healthy and enjoyable life-time activity.”

Jeffery M. Johnston
Director of Golf
University of California at Irvine

“This informative book is a must for physicians and golfers alike. This book stresses the importance of biomechanics; for a good golf swing, to prevent injury, and the treatment of injury thereafter.”

Brian Davis,MD
Director sports and Spine center
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
University of California at Davis Medical Center

“I was not able to play golf due to a ten year history of low back pain. Our Medical Director suggested that I see Dr. Jaffe. He placed me on this Golf Fitness program and I have been playing golf two times per week ever since.”

Julie Phillipson,MD
Pathologist
Kaiser Permanente, San Diego

“Very informative- these exercises will keep everyone on course!“

Jeff Nerenberg,MD
Chief of Service Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Kaiser Permanente, San Diego

“The information in this book is a great guideline for health and athletic development through exercise.”

J. Michael Baza,MD
Emergence Medicine
Mercy Medical Center
Coon Rapids, Minnesota

“The public needs a book like this! Information explaining the mechanisms of back pain combined with a modern rehabilitative approach through core strengthening is something I can recommend to all of my patients. I cannot believe something like this has not come out sooner.”

Joseph Salama,MD
Orthopaedic Surgeon
Providence Hospital
Detroit, Michigan

“These are the best exercises on the planet!”

Franz Sneidman
Personal Trainer/Strength Coach
Dynamic Health and Performance
La Jolla, California

“I have used Dr. Jaffe’s program to treat many patients. The proof is in my practice. This program will strengthen the muscles that you need to support your low back and control your golf swing.”

Sharon Kyle, RPT
Physical Therapist
Kaiser Permanente San Diego

“As a serious golfer, I have always searched for an approach to fitness that would strengthen my body without disrupting my golf swing. Since beginning this program, not only do I feel stronger but my golf game has actually improved!”

Jake Cooper
Commercial Pilot
Northwest Airlines
Columbia, South Carolina

“I have always suffered from intermittent back pain and have not been playing as much golf as I would like. After reading why golfers can suffer from back pain and about proper swing mechanics that take stress off the back, I feel confident I will be getting out there more often.”

Mark Genter
Sales
San Francisco, California

“Technology in the golf industry has peaked. Now it will be up to the golfer, through a proper physical fitness program, to get that extra distance and control.”

Anonymous
Club designer for a major golf company

Synopsis

PLAY GOLF FOREVER: Treating Low Back Pain and Improving Your Golf Swing Through Fitness-Revised edition- is an overall look at low back pain as it relates to golf and it includes information on when you need to see a doctor as well as on types of medical treatments for low back pain. The core of the book is an exercise program designed to strengthen the lower back for the rigors of golf–-functional training for core strengthening.

Citing a few stories of patients from his sports medicine practice in Southern California, where people can golf year round, Dr. Michael Jaffe focuses on the message that motion is life. Jaffe, who is a golfer as well as a triathlete, mixes medical information with a physiological examination of a golf swing and then offers an exercise program that is designed specifically to strengthen a golfer’s back.

Low back pain is very common in golfers. What should be common knowledge among golfers–-in fact, among all of us–- is that exercise is the best thing you can do to ease your pain. By making clear that exercise works, PLAY GOLF FOREVER is an inspirational book that educates, motivates and demonstrates.

Someone once said, “There is nothing more obvious than the gracefulness of a well-timed golf swing.” Learning the mechanics of such a golf swing, especially as it relates to back health, is another cornerstone of this book.

This book is split into three parts–-examining the back, the game of golf as it relates to the back, and the exercise program. These three parts are book ended by two inspirational chapters explaining the power of the body to heal itself, and how functional training recharges that power.

Part One of PLAY GOLF FOREVER delves into an explanation of the many kinds of lower back pain, when to see a doctor, including a list of red-flag symptoms, and then an overall look at the various treatments available.

Part Two of the book examines why golfers get lower back, including a look at the four major causes, as well as a comparison between golfers with and without lower back pain. This part will also examine the golf swing in pieces so that golfers can understand exactly what their body is doing during this quick burst of athleticism.

Part Three of PLAY GOLF FOREVER offers an examination of how muscles and nerves work together followed by a chapter on proper back mechanics for daily living. The functional training for core strengthening exercise program in this book is designed to challenge and improve the way the body works. Finally, this part will delve into a stretching program to be used before playing as well as throughout a game on the course.

PLAY GOLF FOREVER is a book for those who want to play golf but feel hampered by their lower back. Though it does include a few stories from Dr. Jaffe’s practice as well as from the world of professional golf, this book is not designed as a narrative. It is a self-help book in its most basic form. It offers information, inspiration, and instruction. It offers a way for people to play golf forever.