The Pilates Prescription for Back Pain details the self-care program that trained Pilates physical therapists have been using for decades to eliminate back pain. The authors explain each step of the program, outlining the relevant anatomy and teaching the fundamental concepts of Pilates. The book’s three-stage approach builds patient confidence as it strengthens core muscles. The series of coordinated exercises improves postural alignment and body awareness, helping to prevent problems and alleviate existing conditions. Detailed illustrations and photos of each exercise are included.
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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Offers the reader a crystal clear, easy-to-follow regimen,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Pilates Prescription for Back Pain: A Comprehensive Program for Developing and Maintaining a Healthy Back (Paperback)
Three Pilates experts and teachers combine their knowledge in The Pilates Prescription For Back Pain: A Comprehensive Program For Developing And Maintaining A Healthy Back, a no-nonsense health guide featuring Pilates exercises and routines chosen especially to help prevent back problems. Black-and-white photographs and diagrams as well as simple instructions offer the reader a crystal clear, easy-to-follow regimen. The exercises presented are not unduly advanced or difficult; any able-bodied individual can perform them at safely at home. Sample workouts comprised of various exercises for different days offers a starting point for planning one's own routines, and additional sections offer advice for avoiding undue stress on one's back and body while sitting at work, gardening, sleeping, or engaging in sexual activity. Highly recommended.
14 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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Basic Pilates,
By Tara "Fitness Buff" (San Fran, CA.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Pilates Prescription for Back Pain: A Comprehensive Program for Developing and Maintaining a Healthy Back (Paperback)
If you done pilates before, you know these exercies.Just a few warnings about back pain and positions. Good for beginers or people trying to get back into the goove of things.
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The Pilates Prescription for Back Pain,
By Dora Peabody "THETA CAT" (Silver Spring, MD USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Pilates Prescription for Back Pain: A Comprehensive Program for Developing and Maintaining a Healthy Back (Paperback)
This is a super book. It communicates well and is very effective. I have had chronic back, hip and feet pain for many years. This book is teaching me how to use my body correctly, which is something I don't think most people realize they don't know how to do - I sure didn't, even though I have been through yoga and dance training. The book is not glamorous and not for coffee table reading. It's more the book you can throw into your suitcase or backpack and take with. It's a book for USE and it WORKS. I feel physically better than in many years, my hips and back and feet are improving daily. This is more or less an operating manual for the body's structure. Thank you so much to the authors for making this information available in an easily assimilatable form. :-)
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"In between each vertebra lie the discs, cushions of elastic tissue that act as shock absorbers between each vertebra, protecting the spine from the impact on it as we walk, run, jump and fall, and permitting, normally, movement in every direction." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hollowed throughout the exercise, flat firm cushion, firm flat cushion, stay zipped, how the back works, deep stabilizing muscles, small flat cushion, mobilizing muscles, lateral breathing, pelvic stability, deep neck flexors, please seek advice, keep your pelvis, neutral pelvis, keep lengthening, deep gluteals, lower ribcage, upper body relaxed, keep your neck, muscle recruitment, chin tucks, transversus abdominis Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Relaxation Position, Stage One, Hip Flexor Stretch, Pelvic Stability Exercises, Body Control Pilates, Spine Curls, Roll Downs, Side Rolls, The Cushion Squeeze, The Cat, Calf Stretch, Dumb Waiter, Hamstring Stretch, Oblique Curl Ups, Table Top, Adductor Openings, Knee Drops, Windmill Arms, Floating Arms, Shoulder Drops, Ankle Circles, Arm Openings, Chicken Wings, Deep Gluteal Stretch, Free Standing New!
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"In between each vertebra lie the discs, cushions of elastic tissue that act as shock absorbers between each vertebra, protecting the spine from the impact on it as we walk, run, jump and fall, and permitting, normally, movement in every direction." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hollowed throughout the exercise, flat firm cushion, firm flat cushion, stay zipped, how the back works, deep stabilizing muscles, small flat cushion, mobilizing muscles, lateral breathing, pelvic stability, deep neck flexors, please seek advice, keep your pelvis, neutral pelvis, keep lengthening, deep gluteals, lower ribcage, upper body relaxed, keep your neck, muscle recruitment, chin tucks, transversus abdominis Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Relaxation Position, Stage One, Hip Flexor Stretch, Pelvic Stability Exercises, Body Control Pilates, Spine Curls, Roll Downs, Side Rolls, The Cushion Squeeze, The Cat, Calf Stretch, Dumb Waiter, Hamstring Stretch, Oblique Curl Ups, Table Top, Adductor Openings, Knee Drops, Windmill Arms, Floating Arms, Shoulder Drops, Ankle Circles, Arm Openings, Chicken Wings, Deep Gluteal Stretch, Free Standing New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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This book cites 5
books:
- Body Control: The Pilates Way by Lynne Robinson in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Official Body Control Pilates Manual by Lynne Robinson in Back Matter
- Pilates Manual by Lynne Robinson in Back Matter
- Pilates Through the Day (Desk Reviver) by Lynne Robinson in Back Matter
- Maitland's Vertebral Manipulation, 7e by Geoff Maitland in Back Matter
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