Listen to Your Pain: The Active Person's Guide to Understanding, Identifying, and Treating Pain and Injury [Paperback]

Ben E. Benjamin (Author), Gale Borden (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 3, 1984

The newly updated edition of the classic guide to assessing and treating pain and injury

For more than twenty-five years, Listen to Your Pain has been a leading resource for understanding pain and injury problems. Now revised and updated based on recent research, this comprehensive, fully illustrated guide:
* explains how to determine exactly what is causing your pain, using simple tests
* provides detailed instructions for therapists on assessing and treating each major injury
* outlines possible treatment choices, from self-therapy to medical help
* catalogs injuries by the part of the body that hurts, for easy reference
* offers exercise and rehabilitation regimens to help promote faster healing and complete recovery

Listen to Your Pain remains the essential reference for active people seeking an understanding of their injuries and relief from their pain.

--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

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About the Author

Ben E. Benjamin earned his Ph.D. in sports medicine and education, and is the founder of the Muscular Therapy Institute in Watertown, Massachusetts. He has been in private practice for more than 40 years and teaches extensively throughout the country on topics related to orthopedic massage and communication skills. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics); 1 edition (January 3, 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 014006687X
• ISBN-13: 978-0140066876
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,108,522 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Helpful information in layman's terms. I recommend highly., October 13, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Listen to Your Pain: The Active Person's Guide to Understanding, Identifying, and Treating Pain and Injury (Paperback)

This book gives clear, understandable step-by-step guidelines to help the reader identify what type of injury is causing his/her pain. This book helped me understand what my chiropractor and sports doctor did not, that I had a torn ligament in my back. This excellent book also describes exercises that will contribute to the healing of one's injury.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Want to understand soft tissue injuries? Get this book., November 7, 2005

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John Magruder "Hands on guy" (Chicago, Illinois) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Listen to Your Pain: The Active Person's Guide to Understanding, Identifying, and Treating Pain and Injury (Paperback)

This book is an OUTSTANDING resource (and real eye-opener) for the practitioner as well as for the average person who just wants to understand how things happen in the body and why it can be so hard for some injuries to heal.

Mr. Benjamin is a truly excellent educator who can get the knowledge across in a clear and concise manner. I have personally taken quite a bit of additional training from him revolving around the fundamentals laid out in this book. I can honestly say that it changed my life and my career as a massage therapist.

This is a book that you will refer to CONSTANTLY. It is invaluable.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a great reference book, February 21, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Listen to Your Pain: The Active Person's Guide to Understanding, Identifying, and Treating Pain and Injury (Paperback)

This is a good book if you are experiencing any pain. It will discribe the problem you are having and how to treat it. It could even save you from going to the doctors office and spending unessesary money if you are sure of your problem and can treat it yorself. I enjoy having this book around. It is a good reference book.