Exercise Progression is a professional s manual for those who want to learn advanced assessment and exercise programming skills for low back disorder clients. It includes nine different categories of assessment skills, such as muscle testing and orthopaedic assessments, as well as evidence-based exercise techniques that are proven to improve low back pain and its reoccurrence. It is the only manual of its kind that offers such advanced assessment skills in addition to post-rehab and high performance exercise training, all in the same book! And all in 328 pages with over 1000 images (assessments, corrective actions, and exercises) and 49 virtual anatomy pictures.
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There has always been a large divide between Health Care Professionals and Fitness Professionals. However both of these professions deal with a common client, that is one that has some form of Low Back complaint. What Chris Hallford does throughout this book is cover in detail the topic of Low Back Disorders, and what exercises, slow progressions and assessments can be used when dealing with this population for the Health Care Professional to the Personal Trainer. Getting all of these professions together with the same understanding, the same terminology and the same approach to helping the client is essential and Chris does this incredibly well. From stretching protocols, the anatomy and physiology, full body assessments to the exercises and movement prescription, every component is covered to allow the professional a full understanding of what causes and what helps alleviate Low Back Pain. I recommend this book to any professional dealing with clients with any form of mild low back issues, which today is almost everyone at some stage within their life cycle. This is the first brave step to truly integrating the different professionals within the Health and Fitness industry and I applaud Chris for creating such a thorough yet easy to follow guide in this book Exercise Progression, Low Back Disorders. Recommend this to every Health and Fitness Professional you know. --Richard Boyd, Co Founder, Personal Training on the Net
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As an author, inventor, medical exercise specialist, personal trainer and massage therapist, Chris Hallford has a background in health care that not many can offer. With over 11 years of experience working with pain and injuries in people from professional athletes to spinal surgery patients, he also presents continuing education workshops that are both exciting and highly experiential. As the founder of The National Institute of Health Specialists and The Exercise Progression Center, Chris has a mission to improve the health care system by training professionals in his proven systems and creating health facilities that utilize the teamwork of many different professionals and specialists to give the client/patient the care they need to reach their potential, not just recover. Chris has over 18 years of practical experience with his own low back pain and has competed in junior Olympic and national levels in two sports. He is best known for getting to the root causes of pain and dysfunction while designing evidence-based programs that keep the problems away. He has done this successfully over the years by working directly with and studying under highly respected acupuncturists, chiropractors and physical therapists. Chris was the Head of Post-Rehabilitation Exercise and Muscle Therapy for a chiropractic clinic, the Pain and Injury Specialist for The Center for Optimum Health in San Francisco, and now runs his own center that is built on the systems he teaches.
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Chris Hallford has an amazing knowledge of the human body and delivers an incredible amount of information in this book. For fitness and health professionals as well as those who wish be more informed, this book delivers. From great illustrations to photos to descriptions of how the body works, this book gives the reader the information necessary to take more control of their own health, control pain, as well as the information needed as a professional to help others. I have found it an invaluable tool in working with my clients as well gaining a valuable amount of information to apply to my own health as well. It also provides you with functional programs so that you can immediately apply the knowledge that you have gotten from the book. I highly recommend this book.
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