Effortless Pain Relief: A Guide to Self-Healing from Chronic Pain [Hardcover]

Ingrid lorch Bacci (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0743260759 | ISBN-13: 978-0743260756 | Publication Date: 2005 | Edition: 1

A physician and fibromyalgia sufferer shares her personal mind-body program for overcoming pain, identifying key causes of pain while outlining a course of muscle relaxation, stress management, and emotional control. 25,000 first printing.

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Paul Davidson, Medical Director, Fibromyalgia Clinic, Kentfield Rehabilitation Hospital; author of "Chronic Muscle Pain Syndrome"

The optimal treatment [for chronic pain] lies not in medications but in a comprehensive self-empowerment approach. This book is a 'must read' for chronic pain sufferers. It would make a wonderful, enlightening gift for your physician!

About the Author

Ingrid Bacci, Ph.D., C.S.T., CAT, is a certified craniosacral therapist and a licensed teacher of the Alexander Technique. Bacci develops and teaches seminars on chronic pain management for the HMO Oxford Health. She also teaches craniosacral therapy nationally for the Upledger Institute, the world's largest alternative bodywork teaching institute. She is an occasional guest lecturer at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. A graduate of Harvard and Columbia universities, and a former fellow at Cambridge University, England, Bacci runs a private practice in her hometown of Croton-on-Hudson, New York. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Free Press; 1 edition (2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743260759
• ISBN-13: 978-0743260756
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,585,834 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Learn to Heal Yourself, January 6, 2008

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Susan C. Lanzano (Briarcliff Manor,NY 10510) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Effortless Pain Relief: A Guide to Self-Healing from Chronic Pain (Hardcover)

Effortless Pain Relief is both an unusual and a really important book. It has a revolutionary and very effective approach to helping you heal yourself from chronic pain - back, neck or shoulder pain, fibromyalgia, arthritis, etc. Its core idea is that chronic pain, no matter what its original cause, always involves muscle tension, and that letting go of the tension is letting go of the pain. The idea that muscular tension is the source of pain is not in itself that new. John Sarno, for example, in his book Mind Over Back Pain, holds to that view. But John Sarno's solution is just to ask you to figure out what problem in your life is causing the tension, and then you will feel better. That works sometimes, but a lot of times it doesn't. What if the source of the tension is unconscious? What if the source of the tension is the way we stand, breathe, or walk? Or what if the source of the tension comes from misalignment due to an accident? In each case, the author of Effortless Pain Relief gives you lots of tools for releasing tension in your body. Some of those tools involve changing the way you breathe. Some involve changing the way you stand, sit, or walk. Some involve learning how to identify and release habits of pushing through life that so many of us have. And some involve learning how to recognize unconscious emotional blocks. Ingrid Bacci does it all. She shows us how to let go of whatever is causing our pain. She shows you how to heal yourself. That's a great gift.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Effortless Pain Relief, May 22, 2010

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David Villafana "Soft Tissue Therapist" (Venice, FL 34293) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Effortless Pain Relief: A Guide to Self-Healing from Chronic Pain (Paperback)

This is an outstanding review of areas an average person never thought about it; and it really helps to view pain from a different perspective and when applied to real life it is quite surprising to see the results.
The only criticism is that it ignores the relationship to myofascial relief which is the only successful hands on approach to the theory explained in the book. I happen to be a practitioner in MFR and CST (this is mentioned in the book as cranio sacral therapy) so I am very familiar with the book content. The book added support and clarification to what I am doing in my job.
David Villafana - LMT in Venice Florida E-mail <[e-mail]>