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Posture Alignment

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The Author of this book coaches you through everything in the simplest terms possible. The basic theory of the book is that our bones become misaligned (forward head or twisted pelvis for example) because our muscles become stiff and weak from lack of use. our bones actually shift when they are weak to acomodate the demands placed on our bodies.

To be more specific, we have pairs of muscles on either side of our joints that move them in opposite directions, whether it be our hips wrists, Knees shoulders ect. When we use our joints, the muscles on one side contract and the muscles on the other relax. Muscle imbalances on both side of a joint cause the bone to be pulled out of alignment.

I have seen many people-- even before I read this book--with forward heads, feet that were tilted outwards like a duck or excesivly inward and shoulders that were uneven. The goal of alignment is to get our bodies back into their proper sympatry and thus restore function and mobility to our joints.

a forward neck for example, puts strain on your shoulders, upper back and neck which limits its mobility, and requires greater energy to maintain. Every postural misalignment puts strain on other parts of the body, thus using unessesary energy. Arezo teaches you how to access yourself for misalignments and then tells you exactly how to fix them with exercises. He guides you through step by step with clear illustrations for every exercise. At most they will take you half an hour. He has different exercise menus for different postural misalignments. He even has short menus that help overall alignment.

The great thing about Posture Alignment is that the author tells you exactly how you will feel after doing the exercises and what to expect from them. This is really the least intensive and effective home solution for anyone with postural problems.

He makes good sense. This is the best sum of money I have ever spent in a personal effort to correct my own postural problems and back pain. I couldn't have asked for anything more.

The Posture Alignment theory, has proved its worth in working wonders for my posture and how I feel. I am very surprised that I can feel the difference, and others can see the difference in such a short time.

I cannot in good conscience give this anything but what it deserves. Five stars.

The only book I have read that speaks to people in layman's terms regarding a very important health issue of our time. The author"tells it like it is" with humor& honesty. The last sections with "do it yourself" home exercise programs is a real bonus for people trying to figure out where to start in their quest to improve their health! tl, PHYSICAL THERAPIST ASS'T.

Certified emergency physician Paul D'Arezzo MD draws upon his many years of expertise and experience in Posture Alignment: The Missing Link In Health And Fitness, a self-help and fitness guide for improving the reader's posture to combat muscle or join pain and maintain maximum function and activity as one ages. Highly recommended reading for anyone having posture-based health problems, the simple exercises to correct and maintain personal posture, presented with medical knowledge and insight coached in easy-to-follow lay reader's terms fill the pages of this superb supplemental resource for healthy living.

Excellent book about the importance of posture and muscle and joint alignment in keeping our bodies functioning without pain. Simple ways to ananlyze your own posture with clear exercise menu to correct it. Very easy to read, but full of very important concepts. I think it should be required reading at all medical, physical therapy schools. My only criticism is that although the author gives credit to Pete Egoscue in the introduction, he borrows an awful lot from the Egoscue books and method, which in turn borrows a lot form Yoga postures. Of course body positions can't be patented or copyrighted.

This book is easy to read and really makes sense. Tons of exercises so you don't get bored doing the same things over and other. Exercise menus are very handy. I have been researching posture and backpain on the internet for about three months before getting this book. This book brought everything together and answered a lot of question I couldn't find answers to on the internet.

This book gives outstanding and very practical direction on small changes, easy exercises and pain-relieving stretches that make for great improvments in your posture. I've only been following the instructions for two days and I already have less pain and am standing straighter with less effort. A quick and easy read too. Worth the price and then some.

After reading all the positive reviews, I expected a much better book. The first seven chapter are an utter waste of time concerned primarilly with convincing the reader that posture allignment is a good idea. Despite his M.D. credentials I found the author's science to be extremely dubious. He implies that postural allignment will cure and prevent a host of problems, many of which are common maladies of the aging process. The second half of the book was filled with exercises, but so many are listed, it is difficult to determine what would be an appropriate program for your needs. A much much better book is Posture, Get it Straight by Janice Novak. She also has an exercise DVD.

This is an excellent book. Although I am only doing a few of the exercises, my awareness of slouching is ten thousand times what it was. And does one ever notice all the slouchers out there. My favorite quote from the book is
"We simple don't move enough." There are all kinds of exercises to get us standing up straight and I consider this a "Life skills" book. Book flows and is easy to read.

Have been doing the exercises and really feel they are helping me. I have always had extreme tightness over shoulders and neck and these exercises are giving me good relief. Enjoyed reading the book so much, I read it twice. If you read the book it just makes so much sense, and explains why so many people have joint problems, back, hip, shoulder, knee, etc.

I had first followed this book one and a half years ago, and saw significant improvement on my posture in a month. After that, I have continued doing a few exercises, but not everyday. Actually, I sometimes forgot to do for a week or two. Last week, I met a friend of mine after several years interval, and he mentioned my posture got better. To make sure, I did the "self-test" described in this book, and determined that my posture was still much better than that I had written down on a note when I started, although there was some minor misalignment, which had been gone when I finished a month of exercise. I am really glad for this long-lasting result with such minimal maintenance.

"Posture Alignment" by Paul D'Arezzo has three superb characteristics to make things work: It 1) is easy to perceive, 2) keeps you motivated and 3) gives noticeable results in a short term. Let me describe in detail, as follows:

1) Although everyone is motivated at the point of picking up a book to improve their health, we all know that it is practically a tough work to keep the initial motivation even until to finish reading it. However, in this particularly readable book, every critical point has been highlighted. And just by quickly taking a look of those points throughout the book, you can easily understand the whole logic that is based on the medical experience of the author.

2) Half of this book is dedicated to convince the reader of the importance of resetting our joints and muscles being flexible before building up the muscles, which, in a long term, you would appreciate as precious as the practical part of this book. Because that notion is a critical point and also has been usually misunderstood, the author explains it thoroughly with plenty of real-life examples. And by reading this part, your concept about posture will change once and forever, thus would keep the motivation long after you finished reading it, as it happened to me.

3) Most importantly, it works, and the result is obvious even after a short while of practice. I had had a problem of my shoulders to slouch, and it was very encouraging to me when I recognized that not so many fingers were seen any more in the front view (you'll see what this means when you get this book) just after a few weeks of the shoulder alignment practice.

After seeing the results, I feel more motivated now, and have started to do the full menu, again, for a month or so. Thanks Dr Paul D'Arezzo, for his straightforward instruction, which certainly contributed to increase my self-confidence. I highly recommend this book to everyone, especially to people who are lazy and clumsy like myself.