Providing gentle, safe therapy for those suffering from back pain, whether caused by stress, accident, pregnancy, or obesity, this book uses proven techniques to help eliminate back pain. The author acts as a personal trainer, stressing the importance of stretching and exercising every muscle in the lower back to improve posture and overall health. Medical line drawings illustrate and teach about muscles and their relationship to posture and lower back pain. Using a mind/body approach, Scott provides visualising techniques and gentle exercises that will begin the process of reducing stress and relaxing. Specific workouts for alleviating back pain target the psoas, lower back, and the abdominals.
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"Exceptional!" -- Today's Books
"Readers . . . will be rewarded with improved spinal health and possible recovery from long term chronic injury." -- The Dancing Times, March 2003
"[This book] could be appealing to the general public interested in a nontechnical guide for a healthy back." -- Physical Therapy, Volume 83
"Readers . . . will be rewarded with improved spinal health and possible recovery from long term chronic injury." -- The Dancing Times, March 2003
"[This book] could be appealing to the general public interested in a nontechnical guide for a healthy back." -- Physical Therapy, Volume 83
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This review is from: Good-Bye to Bad Backs: Stretching and Strengthening Exercises for Alignment and Freedom from Lower Back Pain (Paperback)
Ten years ago I bought the second edition of this book to help me resolve severe back pain. At the time I could not bend over the sink when brushing my teeth without putting my hand on the counter because of the pain in my lower back. I used the exercises every day for about 6 weeks. At the end of that time I was back to jogging and being pain free. The book went onto my bookshelf. Now I am taking the book out again. I haven't been maintaining the exercises and have low back pain again. I am confident that I'll be feeling good again by returning to the exercises that Judith Scott presents so well. The pictures and descriptions are wonderful.
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Since this is not a textbook, I won't attempt to present an exhaustive discussion of anatomy and kinesiology (the study of mechanics in relation to movement). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bad Backs, Cheerleader Stretch, Double-Knee Hug, Knee Drop, Knee Stretch, Psoas Release, Psoas Strengthener, Single-Knee Spiral, Standing Leg Long, Crossed Arms, Painter's Stretch, Type of Workout, Head Lift, Pelvic Floor Exercise, Psoas Racer's Stretch, Diagonal Curl-up, Forward Curl-up, Suggested Reading, Arms Reach Forward, Back Strengthener, Basic Back Workout-Level, Double-Knee Spiral, Knee Kiss, Psoas Bow Stretch, Psoas Side-Lying Stretch New!
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Since this is not a textbook, I won't attempt to present an exhaustive discussion of anatomy and kinesiology (the study of mechanics in relation to movement). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bad Backs, Cheerleader Stretch, Double-Knee Hug, Knee Drop, Knee Stretch, Psoas Release, Psoas Strengthener, Single-Knee Spiral, Standing Leg Long, Crossed Arms, Painter's Stretch, Type of Workout, Head Lift, Pelvic Floor Exercise, Psoas Racer's Stretch, Diagonal Curl-up, Forward Curl-up, Suggested Reading, Arms Reach Forward, Back Strengthener, Basic Back Workout-Level, Double-Knee Spiral, Knee Kiss, Psoas Bow Stretch, Psoas Side-Lying Stretch New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Human Movement Potential: Its Ideokinetic Facilitation by Lulu E. Sweigard on page 27, and Back Matter
- Nine Months, Nine Lessons by Gail Sforza Brewer in Back Matter
- Food and Healing by Annemarie Colbin in Back Matter
- The Pelvic Girdle by Diane Lee in Back Matter
- On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee in Back Matter
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