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    The Back Pain Avenger: Heal Chronic Back Pain and Destroy It Forever
    The Back Pain Avenger: Heal Chronic Back Pain and Destroy It Forever
    The Back Pain Avenger: Heal Chronic Back Pain and Destroy It Forever
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    The Back Pain Avenger: Heal Chronic Back Pain and Destroy It Forever

    By Joe Chiappetta

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    The Back Pain Avenger is a non-medicated memoir of rehabilitation. Discover how one eccentric leader in the disability community finally overcomes his own back injury and no longer suffers from chronic back pain. Find out if the unorthodox methods he uses in healing back pain will work for you. This hard to believe, funny, yet true story is written and illustrated by award winning author Joe Chiappetta. Disability advocates, people with disabilities, their family members, as well as healthcare professionals and businesses who employ people with disabilities will be aching with laughs, insight, and the awareness that brings healing in this lighthearted yet powerful journey. Alternative medicine meets cartoon humor and the Bible. The book also includes Disability in Comics: a chronological index of major characters with disabilities featured in the history of comic books and strips. Contains 25,000 words and 78 Silly Daddy comics and illustrations.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoe Chiappetta
    Release dateNov 25, 2011
    ISBN9781465792129
    The Back Pain Avenger: Heal Chronic Back Pain and Destroy It Forever
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    Joe Chiappetta

    Author on STAR CHOSEN science fiction novel and SILLY DADDY comics

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      The Back Pain Avenger - Joe Chiappetta

      The Back Pain Avenger:

      Heal Chronic Back Pain and Destroy It Forever

      Written, published, and copyright 2011 by Joe Chiappetta

      Smashwords Edition

      Edited by Denise Chiappetta.

      Back Pain Avenger alternate cover illustration shows a tulip standing straight up saying to a very bent tulip that he should see a chiropractor about that. It's an ink brush drawing on 9 x 12 paper by Joe Chiappetta 2011.

      http://joechiappetta.blogspot.com

      The Back Pain Avenger is a non-medicated memoir of rehabilitation. Discover how one eccentric leader in the disability community finally overcomes his own back injury and no longer suffers from chronic back pain. Find out if the unorthodox methods he uses in healing back pain will work for you. This hard to believe, funny, yet true story is written and illustrated by award winning author Joe Chiappetta. Disability advocates, people with disabilities, their family members, as well as healthcare professionals and businesses who employ people with disabilities will be aching with laughs, insight, and the awareness that brings healing in this lighthearted yet powerful journey. Alternative medicine meets cartoon humor and the Bible. The book also includes Disability in Comics: a chronological index of major characters with disabilities featured in the history of comic books and strips. Contains 25,000 words and 78 Silly Daddy comics and illustrations.

      Earliest draft cover for Back Pain Avenger when working title was Disability Fix. Mixed media digital illustration is by Joe Chiappetta 2011.

      Why I Wrote this Book

      A woman waving a book around in disappointment asks her man, How come I'm not on the cover of your new book?

      Her man replies plainly, It's not about you.

      Covergirl Shocker comic is a digital drawing on iPAQ Pocket PC edited in Inkscape and Adobe Illustrator by Joe Chiappetta 2011.

      Time and time again, life turns out nothing like I expected. Five years ago, the thought of me making a book about health issues would have seemed like the dumbest, most boring thing imaginable. Moreover, I certainly never expected my growth as an artist to hit a wall. Yet that is exactly what happened when my chronic lower back pain increased to such a terrible extent that I could not sit for more then a brief period without extreme discomfort. As such, holding a coherent thought or a coherent brush stroke became a challenging experience. While I still pushed-on creatively with Silly Daddy comics, I could feel the zeal of my cartoon communications wearing thin.

      Yet it was these very trials that have led to the most amazing experience of my lifetime. Since my teenage years I have lived with this often debilitating lower back condition, and after two decades struggling to find relief, I have finally found a rehabilitation plan that has worked completely. I wrote The Back Pain Avenger so that others might have the same opportunity at recovery from chronic back pain as I have had.

      My intent is to share that journey with others in an educational, inspiring, and even humorous manner. Some may gloss over the disability concepts in this book and think, It's not about me. I would amend that statement to say, It's not about you yet! According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, 80% of Americans experience lower back pain in their lifetime. After the common cold, lower back pain is the second leading cause of lost work time, with Americans spending $50 billion each year on this condition. People are living longer and health impairments can happen to anyone at any time. Therefore I believe the future holds more creative exploration of disability issues for me--and perhaps for you too.

      I have encountered countless people in the deepest despair of chronic back pain with no hope in sight. Since my recovery in 2008, I have conversationally told these kindred spirits how I am now pain-free. To their astonishment, they eagerly want to know all the details of how I got healed. Therefore, using my 20-year background as a cartoonist and novelist, it seemed most fitting to turn those skills toward putting words and pictures together in this non-medicated memoir of my rehabilitation.

      Joe Chiappetta, 2011

      The Back Pain Avenger:

      Heal Chronic Back Pain and Destroy it Forever

      By Joe Chiappetta

      The Back Pain Avenger with a Bolt illustration depicts Joe as a flying superhero struck through the back from a lightning bolt sent by a giant powerful heavenly hand. It's an ink brush drawing on 8.5 x 11 paper by Joe Chiappetta, colored in Paint.net program and edited in Adobe Illustrator.

      Chapter 1: No Really, I'm Fine

      Helpless in the Hospital comic is a digital drawing on iPAQ Pocket PC edited in Adobe Illustrator by Joe Chiappetta 2011.

      I sat by powerlessly and drew pictures many years ago while someone very close to me was hospitalized and seen by a parade of countless doctors. Her health situation was so severe, that she couldn't leave the hospital even if she wanted to. The walls were padded and the door was locked each time someone entered and exited the room. Something about being in such a room was quite intimidating. On top of all the concern I felt for her, I also remember filing away an extreme thought; Wow, I never want to be at the mercy of hospital doctors--ever! It's like a prison in here. I'd rather die! Helpless in the hospital? Not me. Much later, this exact hospital decision would be put to the test.

      Perhaps my test could have been avoided if I had paid more attention to the word slip. It's in the Bible as a warning over ten times! I never noticed that before... until it was too late.

      Slippery Start for a Slippery Disc on a Slippery Road comic is ink brush and pens on 11 x 8.5 paper by Joe Chiappetta 2011.

      Running across a big street named after a big former mayor of Chicago--that's where everything slipped out of control--on Cermak Road. That's when my health problems glided into a new low. I was on my way to work, trying to catch the train from Cicero to downtown Chicago. The cold winter morning hadn't affected me yet, or so I thought. I had just finished shoveling the snow by my house not twenty minutes prior.

      I like Cermak Road. At the time I was living three houses from that grand old street, and for most of my life, my various dwelling places have been no more than three miles away from this major Chicago roadway. The street is named after Mayor Anton Cermak. In 1933 he took an assassin's bullet while shaking President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt's hand, and died of those wounds a few weeks later.

      As for me, no shots were fired, but I got wounded on the road that was renamed in honor of Chicago's fallen mayor. While I crossed the middle of his street, I swiftly slipped on a small unassuming patch of ice. I chalked it up to God or my many years in wrestling as to the reason why I didn't fall from this slip. I actually kept on running. Yet instantly, I knew something was seriously wrong. In roughly forty years, I had already grown somewhat accustomed to living with mild chronic back pain. However that particular day

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