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Quick answer The Treat Your Own Shoulder by by Robin McKenzie (Author) Format: Paperback scores 9.2/10 with us. Amazon owners rate it 4.6 out of 5 across 740 reviews, in line with the 4.6 average of the 9 healing we track.

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Product information

10 specifications
Publisher‎ Orthopedic Physical Therapy Products
Publication date‎ January 1, 2009
Edition‎ 1st
Language‎ English
Print length‎ 96 pages
ISBN-10‎ 097998808X
ISBN-13‎ 978-0979988080
Item Weight‎ 1 pounds
Reading age‎ 18 years and up
Dimensions‎ 5.87 x 0.25 x 8.25 inches

Treat Your Own Shoulder: questions & answers

Is the Treat Your Own Shoulder worth buying?

Yes, it is one of the stronger picks in its group. We score the Treat Your Own Shoulder 9.2 out of 10. Amazon owners rate it 4.6 out of 5 across 740 reviews, in line with the 4.6 average of the 9 healing we track.

What are good alternatives to the Treat Your Own Shoulder?

Similar, well-rated healing in our catalog: by Robin McKenzie (Author), Melany Joy Beck (Editor), Jono Smith (Illustrator) & 0 more Format: Paperback Treat Your Own Knee (9.2/10, 4.6 stars from 907 owners); by Robin McKenzie Robin McKenzie (Contributor) Format: Paperback Treat Your Own Neck 5th Ed (9.0/10, 4.5 stars from 3,292 owners); by Louise L Hay (Author) Format: Paperback Heal Your Body A-Z: The Mental Causes (9.2/10, 4.6 stars from 1,119 owners).

Customer reviews

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4.6740 global ratings
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4 star11%
3 star22%
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Breakdown from the 9 most helpful reviews we imported.

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MJ
Verified purchaseAugust 22, 2013
Worth every penny

I was having issues with my shoulder and my doctor had me go to a physical therapist for treatment. He basically gave me one exercise to do, and made it worse. I went back to the doctor and gave me a cortisone injection and also suggested I obtain this book. Unfortunately the injection did not help much, but the exercises in the book has made a difference. The book is very easy to read and very comprehensive in the information you need to understand how your shoulder is designed and made to work. It provides excellent pictures on how to do the exercises and in the order that they should be don

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Les Gapay
Verified purchaseMarch 27, 2015
Very Helpful Part of a Series of McKenzie Books on Joint Pain

All the Robin McKenzie books on self-treating joint problems are excellent. I have used the well-written books on treating your own neck and on treating your own back with excellent results from the exercises and tips. So I recently got this book on shoulder pain. The exercises for the shoulder are similar to what I have been doing anyway after going to a physical therapist and shoulder surgeon several years ago and learning various home exercises which helped. I have a rotator cuff problem. Besides the illustrated and well explained exercises, McKenzie's books explain in easily understood lay

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Emilio
Verified purchaseApril 12, 2019
Good informative book

Read entire book. Did every exercise. I really felt no pain while doing any of the exercises. I did them every day anyway. My pain still continued for a while and is now 50% better. But I am not sure I can attribute it to the book. What may not work for me may work for someone else.Very easy to read. I finished it in an hour.

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Bob
Verified purchaseAugust 13, 2025
Must have

Cranky, over-used shoulders. This book helps me avoid going to PT. Purchase the whole series. Easy to read and understand.

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Tina G.
Verified purchaseMarch 9, 2015
I really gained a lot of benefit from the method/exercise ...

I really gained a lot of benefit from the method/exercise program in this book. At first I didn't think that such a simple program would work; but it did. This method reduced my shoulder pain to a level that, eventually, allowed me to do other exercises (hanging/weightlifting); which are necessary for strengthening and rehabilitating the muscles, further. With this method, my pain took about 3 weeks to subside enough, whereas I could do more things. Now, as the book suggests, I only do a few of the exercises, as needed. The program has you perform six simple & quick exercises every two hours u

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Celia R.
Verified purchaseDecember 30, 2025
Good information

This was a gift for someone with incompletely torn rotator cuffs. He was grateful to receive it.

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MattK
Verified purchaseJuly 27, 2020
It’s worth a try. However, don’t expect much insight from this cut/paste brochure.

The information and the exercises are good. And, the book is not very expensive. Yet, this is a very basic, low-budget, cut-and-paste book that was written and illustrated with minimal effort. The meat of the entire book could be boiled-down to a five or six page brochure. It’s not a a rip-off, but I was hoping for a bit more insight.

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Andrés
Verified purchaseJanuary 5, 2019
Práctico y efectivo

Es sencillo, claro y práctico.

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