About The Author

Dr. Michael Jaffe is the director of the Low Back Pain Clinic at Kaiser Permanente in San Diego. He is also an athlete, a golfer, and a staff physician who has heard thousands of patients tell him that lower back pain is preventing them from playing golf.

Dr. Jaffe has a credo: Motion is life. His belief that much of how we express ourselves is through our physical actions is emphasized in this book, which is designed to get people back doing what it is they love to do – golf.

He has run marathons, participated in 100-mile bicycle races, Won a corporate relay bike race across the Unites States, entered triathlons, and climbed mountains such as Mount Kilamanjaro and Mount Rainer. He is an avid snowboarder and in-line skater. In his training for his many athletic activities, Dr. Jaffe discovered the wonders of functional training at about the same time he began playing golf. He immediately recognized that the muscle groups and skills that are strengthened in functional training are the exact same ones challenged by the game of golf. And he discovered that functional training is the perfect program for golfers with lower back pain.

Dr. Jaffe is an experienced speaker and is on the Speakers Bureau for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Inc., and Medtronic Neurological. He is currently lecturing on the subject of golf and back pain at U.C.L.A. and U.C. Davis, and San Diego Osteopathic Medical Association, National medical Conferences, as well as San Diego Fit Running Club. He has also spoken to regional Southern California Kaiser Permanente Primary Care Symposiums about golf and back pain.

Summary of Qualifications:

Staff Physician Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Southern California Permanente Medical Group in San Diego – August 1996 – present
Director Amputee Clinic at Kaiser Permanenete San Diego Director of Intrathecal Baclofen Pump Program at Kaiser Permanenete San Diego
Director of Lymphedema Physical Therapy CDT Program Kaiser Permanente San Diego
Director Low Back Pain Clinic Kaiser Permanente San Diego
Director of Spasticity Management Kaiser Permanente San Diego
Clinical Competence in the utilization of Botox-A in Spasticity and Myofascial pain
Board Certified Physical Medicine and RehabilitationBoard Certified Chronic Pain Management Completion of Residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation – June 1996
One year Internal Medicine Residency – July 1992-June 1993
Transitional Year Rotating Internship – July 1991-June 1992
Experience in Occupational Medicine Clinics – July 1992-June 1996
State Medical Licensee in California since October 1997
Board Certified American College of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. May 1996
Board Certified in Chronic Pain Management American College of Anesthesiology. September 2002