Investigative journalist Cathryn Jakobson Ramin is the author of Carved in Sand: When Attention Fails and Memory Fades in Midlife, published by HarperCollins in 2007. Her new book about the back pain industry, Crooked, will be published in April 2017. She’s written for many national magazines on topics that include healthcare, neuroscience, business, public policy, travel, art, design and culture. A popular speaker, these days, she’s booking lectures that enlighten patients, health care practitioners, corporations and medical facilities about how to manage back pain. Cathryn is married to Ron Ramin, a music composer. They have two adult sons, Avery and Oliver, and a Jack Russell-Daschundt mix dog named Dasch, after the punctuation mark, which he resembles. She divides her time between Northern California and New York City. Facebook: http://bit.ly/fbcrooked . Twitter: @cjramin
“[Crooked] details the nature and results of virtually every
current approach to treating back pain.” — Jane Brody, New York
Times
“Written by veteran investigative journalist and back pain sufferer
Cathryn Jakobson Ramin, Crooked highlights how traditional
treatments such as chiropractic, surgery and injections are largely
ineffective. Ramin argues the psychological impact of back pain… is
so severe that people are compelled to pursue any possibility of
relief.” — New York Post
“Ramin decided to deploy her skills as a journalist and investigate
the $100 billion back pain industry. She went on to write Crooked:
Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to
Recovery, an incredible tale of back pain and its treatment,
published last May.” — Vox
“Ramin offers a thoughtful and heartfelt way … to treat one of
humankind’s most debilitating disorders–chronic back pain. A
remarkable guide from someone who unfortunately had to make the
journey, and found her way out.” — Paul A. Offit, MD, author of
Pandora’s Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
“I see back pain patients who have undergone invasive procedures
before they go through evidence-based rehabilitation. In a most
engaging way, Cathryn Jakobson Ramin tells it like it is. Whether
you’re a patient, a physician, or a public policy wonk, you should
read this book.” — Vijay Vad, MD, sports medicine specialist at the
Hospital for Special Surgery, and author of Back RX
“Ramin has written a riveting and disturbing account of a sector of
American medicine that’s gone very wrong…. Politics, science,
history–it’s all in there, along with concrete advice for fellow
sufferers. Policymakers can learn from this book, and patients can,
too.” — Jonathan Cohn, author of The Untold Story of America’s
Health Care Crisis and The People Who Pay the Price
“[A] thoroughly reported first-person take on the back-pain
industry . . . Buyer beware! This cautionary book ends on a high
note with the once-hobbled-by-back-pain author standing up straight
and hiking a 13,000-foot trail in the Peruvian Andes.” —
Booklist
“…[A] well-researched and fascinating read detailing the
heart-wrenching experience so common to millions of back pain
sufferers. Ramin exposes the devastating financial and emotional
cost of back pain…Ultimately, her in-depth research lights the way
to a better path for healing.” — Miranda Esmonde-White, New York
Times bestselling author of Forever Painless
“For most people, the key to preventing—and relieving—back pain is
to simply keep moving, says Cathryn Jakobson Ramin, author of
Crooked… An investigative journalist and chronic back pain sufferer
herself, Ramin shares what she learned after six years of
researching solutions for this common complaint.” — Shape
“Crooked weaves together her compelling personal story and those of
compatriots in back pain of all ages.” — Quartz
“This is one of those books where you will keep reading parts aloud
to your partner—and sending copies to your loved ones. Don’t miss
it.” — Spirituality and Health Magazine
Ramin, an investigative journalist by trade, published a book in
May examining the back pain and spine surgery industries… Crooked
is based on… Ramin’s experience managing chronic back pain. She
describes spending money on unsuccessful treatments and pairs her
personal narrative with statistics and interviews with spine
specialists. — Becker’s Spine Review
“In her book, Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and
Getting on the Road to Recovery, Ramin exposes the motive behind
frightening diagnoses and the influence of pharmaceutical
companies. In addition, she shatters assumptions about surgery,
chiropractic methods and spinal injections.” — the Waking Times
“Ramin’s search for better treatments, paired with four decades as
an investigative journalist, resulted in her latest book, Crooked:
Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to
Recovery. The book’s conclusions are a sweeping indictment of a
$100 billion industry.” — MarketWatch
“Ramin’s new book, Crooked, pulls back the curtain on the back pain
industry and provides strategies for navigating the plethora of
treatment options.” — KQED Radio
“Herself a back pain sufferer, [Ramin] chronicles her odyssey,
touching on virtually every option, conventional and alternative,
for back pain.” — Ronald Hoffman, MD, Intelligent Medicine
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