A series of seven programmes Narrated by Robert Winston

There's no really satisfactory treatment for the back pain that four out of five of us will suffer at some time in our lives.
We'll be told to stay in bed until the pain goes away. But Colin Sheldon has tried that. And after four weeks with the pain getting steadily worse, he welcomes the prospect of an operation-even though the surgeon has told him it couldn't return him to grade one fitness.
Film editor CHRISTOPHER WOOLLEY Producer FIONA HOLMES
Series editor DAVID PATERSON