The Pain-Free Body is your essential guide for addressing pain and discomfort the moment it starts. With clear illustrations and easy-to-understand explanations of common aches and diagnoses, this book helps you tackle pain at its root rather than relying solely on medication for temporary relief. In today’s world, where health advice is often overwhelming, The Pain-Free Body offers a refreshingly simple, accessible approach. Dr. Dan Ginader, a highly regarded physical therapist, shares sc...

Clear information and effective exercises to end pain, regain range of motion, and prevent future injury—includes over 300 photos.Shoulder problems can be debilitating, whether they come from sports injuries or just daily stresses and strains. Healthy Shoulder Handbook outlines the causes for common shoulder conditions, including shoulder impingement, rotator cuff, tendinitis, dislocation, and repetitive motion injuries. Illustrated with over 300 step-by-st...

Imagine finding a way to spend less time suffering from pain, and more time doing the things you love. Take control of your pain! This long awaited, completely reworked, second edition provides new content for each condition, with over 80 additional pages of information, the addition of new and easier to understand illustrations, updated descriptions about each of the soft-tissue conditions, a deeper explanation of the affected structures in each kinetic chain, and proven effective exercis...

A guide to the treatment of pain from common sports injuries and other physical activities• Contains at-home techniques to promote healing and self-awareness of the body’s musculature• Explains how to relieve pain using manual massage in conjunction with small physio balls• Includes an illustrated treatment reference section organized by region of the bodyThe vast majority of physical injuries incurred by active people begin with muscular injuries that are n...

The Mat Companion series provides a methodical approach for using science to balance and connect the body and mind in yoga. The fourth book concludes the series with arm balances and inversions—two pose categories that clearly integrate opposites within the body. In our bipedal form, the hips and lower extremities are the weight-bearing construct. The more mobile shoulders and upper extremities allow us to interact with the world. In arm balances, we invert this construct, thereby strength...

Explore new movements and alleviate stiff joints with more than 100 exercises designed to keep you flexible, energized, and active for life.Pain and stiffness can create fear and uncertainty in our ability to move, affecting quality of life. Exercise has continuously proven to be beneficial against disease, yet people are becoming increasingly sedentary.More than a quarter of the world's population is insufficiently active and it's time we remove barriers t...

A comprehensive at-home rehab and maintenance program with stretching, strengthening, and massaging therapies—from the author of Healthy Shoulder Handbook.The cause of your frozen shoulder may be a mystery, but the way to fix it is no secret. Heal Your Frozen Shoulder guides you through the entire rehabilitation process, from understanding the problem to regaining full movement. It even tells you how to avoid this debilitating condition in the futu...

Your clients and athletes demand and deserve customized, adaptable solutions when injury or chronic pain impairs movement and performance. Known for its whole-body approach to fitness, Pilates is the perfect way to help your patients recover, rehabilitate, and reach their goals.With Pilates for Rehabilitation, you will learn how to apply proven Pilates methods to address dysfunction and help your patients achieve optimal performance. Renowned instructor and physical therap...

Running Injuries, offers easy to access tips on treating and avoiding injuries. This book will help runners and walkers understand how injuries occur, how to prevent them, how to heal them: knee, foot, calf, iliotibial band, plantar fasciia, Achilles tendon, neuroma, and much more. There is also a section on coming back from an injury and exercising while injured.

Anatomy and Yoga: A Guide for Teachers and Students is a valuable resource for yoga practitioners who are curious about what happens in the body as they practice yoga. Structures of the body—muscles, bones, joints, nerves and connective tissue—are described in a user-friendly style, with short, interactive practice sessions to bring the information alive in the moment. The rapidly growing yoga community needs this essential knowledge of biomechanics, especially in yoga teacher training pro...

New edition of well-loved stretching anatomy guide.With more than 500,000 copies sold worldwide, Stretching Anatomy is your go-to guide for seeing inside the stretches that help you increase range of motion, enhance recovery, and facilitate ease of movement during physical and everyday activities.The fourth edition includes the following content updates:A new chapter that explains how to use stretchin...

**INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERMove freely and without pain for the rest of your life with this practical guide from one of North America's leading orthopaedic surgeons and a former doctor for a Major League Baseball team.**Do you find that your body is becoming stiff and sore as you get older? Do little aches and pains come back—or get worse—even after you rest? Are you worried that your body is breaking down and you won’t be able to live a healthy, active life? The...