You will learn how baths and saunas help with osteochondrosis, how the nature of work and rest, shoes affect your health, which diet option is preferable - in a word, how to reduce the risk of osteochondrosis. Osteochondrosis, perhaps, can be called the disease of the century, because today almost every second inhabitant of the Earth is familiar with aching back pain, lumbago, slight numbness of the limbs, coldness in the hands or feet. The author talks in detail about modern methods of treatment and prevention of this disease, including in folk medicine, provides sets of physical therapy exercises, describes massage and self-massage techniques that alleviate the course of the disease.