暢銷作家Miriam E. Nelson的一系列「Strong Women」健康系列的新書《Strong Women, Strong Backs》甫出版，是一本預防、治療和對抗女性最惱人的腰痠背痛的健康指南書，同時，書中也有教導讀者在平時可以做哪些簡易運動來降低背部痠痛。

此書是針對全天下無論年紀大小的女性讀者的健康書。作者在書中清楚解釋腰痠背痛的原因、提出實用建言，以及從這些簡單和有效的課程降低背部疼痛的成功祕密。在書中，作者討論了：


● 造成女性腰痠背痛的主要原因為何；
● 壓力和其他情感上的激動如何引起關鍵性的疼痛；
● 針對女性設計的ㄧ些平日簡易的運動計畫可以提高筋骨的柔軟、骨骼強壯和增養健身；
● 來自家庭、職場的不同環境的背部疼痛的建言；
● 是否該是服用藥物的時候了？同時，女性如何知道自己該去就醫服用藥物治療。

Miriam E. Nelson, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and director of the Center of Physical Activity and Nutrition at Tufts University. She is the author of seven previous Strong Women books, including Strong Women, Strong Bones; Strong Women Eat Well; and Strong Women and Men Beat Arthritis. Her research has been published in The Journal of the American Medical Association and The New England Journal of Medicine, and is covered prominently in popular media, on programs such as The Oprah Winfrey Show and Today, on CNN, and in Time and Newsweek. She lives in Concord, Massachusetts.