THE FIRST BOOK OF ITS KIND off ering the program developed by Dr. Jaff e at Kaiser Permanente’s Low Back Pain Clinic in San Diego to tone and treat low back muscles stressed by golf. Describing the causes, necessary testing, proper posture control, and various medical treatments for low back pain, this book helps you take control and win back your golf game! Th e Functional training and core strengthening exercises taught in this book not only treat and prevent low back pain but also help ...

The latest advice from the original bestselling Back DoctorTwenty-five years ago, Dr. Hamilton Hall wrote the book that changed the way back-pain sufferers deal with their affliction. In The Back Doctor, he advocated activity instead of bed rest. In place of braces and girdles, he suggested that patients follow a program of specific exercise. Most of all, he took the mystery out of back pain.Three out of four Canadian adults, and an increasing number of ch...

A leader in myofascial release therapy (MRT) shares noninvasive, medication-free techniques, stretches, and exercises for managing your chronic pain.Break the chronic pain cycle and rebalance the body so it can heal itself!This indispensable self-help guide is for anyone suffering from chronic pain and struggling to understand why standard medical approaches have failed them. Taking a mind-body approach, the book clearly and simply explains...

The classic program for relieving back pain, revised and updated with the latest innovations in treating pain and maintaining mobility.Dr. Vijay Vad’s Back Rx program has helped readers with back pain, joint pain, arthritis, and related conditions for decades, using a clinically proven mind-body regimen to reduce pain and painkiller usage. In this expanded edition, Dr. Vad explores the extraordinary innovations in managing pain to restore health and wellne...

Release Your Kinetic Chain with Exercises for the Shoulder to Hand - EBOOKAll the tissues, muscles, and bones of your body are connected to each other within a complex web of fascia…and together, make up your kinetic chain. ‘Release Your Kinetic Chain with Exercises for the Shoulder to Hand’ provides intelligently designed, easy-to-follow exercise routines to aid you in rapidly rehabilitating, repairing, strengthening, and restor...

Learn the basics of this ancient practice, including the power points that promote the healing of arthritis, hormone imbalances, headaches, and more.Encourage well-being in yourself and others with reflexology, an age-old, hands-on therapy. Using gentle pressure on specific spots of the hands, feet, and ears, the practice of reflexology relieves the tensions of everyday ailments and promotes energy flow throughout the body. Featuring maps of reflexology regions and...

Sciatica Exercises & Home Treatments is a thorough but concise guide to discovering the cause of your sciatica symptoms and to using the most effective sciatica exercises and home treatments for your specific needs. Detailed, fully illustrated instructions lead you through the testing and treatment methods to give you the best results as quickly as possible.

The revised edition of the best-selling book on Applied Kinesiology, Applied Kinesiology, Revised Edition introduces a diagnostic method that uses manual muscle testing to assess the body's "Triad of Health"--structure, chemistry, and psyche. To perform a muscle test, the practitioner applies light pressure that the client then resists. If the client cannot resist the pressure, the muscle "tests weak," indicating a structural problem or imbalance that needs to be resolved. Further...

What if the underlying cause of your pain is a tight and unrecognized muscle in your hip that is just waiting for attention?Do you have pain in your back, tailbone, pelvis, hip, knee, or foot that won’t go away, no matter what you try? All of these issues can persist because of tightness in the iliacus (sounds like “silly yak kiss”), a muscle in your hip that is part of what is commonly called the “hip flexor.”Most people don’t even know they have an iliac...

Now in paperback, the official physician to the PGA Tour shares his groundbreaking research on preventing back pain and adding more yards to your drives.It is estimated that half of all recreational golfers and one-third of all professional golfers suffer from some form of lower-back pain. Conventional wisdom suggests that the twisting nature of the golf swing is the sole culprit. But research conducted by sports-medicine specialist Vijay Vad, M.D., reveals that th...

75% of pain is caused by trigger points (areas of contracted cells in muscle tissue), but they are drastically under-diagnosed as the source of pain. Trigger points may refer pain and other symptoms both in the local area and/or to other areas of the body, but since over 74% of trigger points are not located in the area where you feel pain, treating the local area does not resolve the problem most of the time. The most common "referral patterns" have been well documented and diagrammed ove...

"Primary outcomes from this book, such as . . . better decisions about treatment . . . will undoubtedly be followed by better clinical outcomes for patients." —Rollin M. Gallagher, Deputy National Program Director for Pain ManagementAlthough back pain is common, the fix isn't. Take Back Your Back shows you how to diagnose and manage your particular back pain and alerts you to red flags and often-misdiagnosed issues that may worsen your condition.—Do ...