UPRISE: The Body Guitar Theory and Back Pain Liberation

What if everything you think you know about chronic back pain is wrong? Despite 40 years of breakthroughs in medical science, patients with chronic lower back pain often do not experience sustained improvement. When treatments fail, we have to ask what is fundamentally wrong.

UPRISE shines a spotlight on debilitating chronic back pain and asks the big question: why aren’t patients getting better? We have muscles, unique to humans, that weaken when the back hurts—and we do not currently address them.

Drawing on more than two decades of specialized training and patient care, Dr. Wheeler explores the relationship between pain, spinal instability, muscle weakness, and mobility that keeps people locked in a cycle of recurring pain. After the first edition was Publishers Weekly’s National Book of the Week, this edition offers a new understanding of the body as the finely tuned instrument it is—as not only your body, but as your Body Guitar.

Introduced here is the Body Guitar Theory, which changes the conversation about spine stability and recovery. The book also introduces Tune Me as a separate orchestration. That work has its own home. This clinic remains the pain and sports practice.