Back Pain: Finding Solutions for Your Aching Back
- Harvard Health Online Course

Gain insight into the sources of back pain through this course. Harvard Health Publishing will provide strategies on how to successfully overcome and eliminate back pain.
- Online; Self-Paced
$29.95
Certificate
Two Weeks, 2-6 Hours/Week
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Overview
In this online course from Harvard Health Publishing, Harvard faculty share the best practices, procedures and preventative steps to help you confidently determine how to best treat and defeat your back pain. This dynamic new course provides the essential and important facts on both common and rare back conditions and presents articulate and definitive instruction for addressing each one appropriately and effectively.
Get information you can use from a source you can trust. Learn from leading orthopaedists and experts where and when it’s convenient for you through downloadable charts, quizzes, video presentations, a resource library and more.
Learning Objectives
- Learn the tricks, tips and tests for getting an accurate diagnosis.
- Gain understanding of emerging treatment strategies, including the latest therapeutic and outpatient surgical options.
- Find alternative therapies, effective mindfulness techniques and exercises to strengthen your back and neck.
- Discover specialized steps for conditions ranging from bulging discs to compression fractures, strains and sprains, and spondylitis and spinal stenosis.
- Educate yourself on the six best and safest medications to halt pain for hours.