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Therapeutic Exercises Using the Swiss Ball

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I love using this book. It is very easy to read and follow directions. The book offers both beginning and advanced exercises that are very fun to perform. This book is a valuable tool in the clinical setting due to the ease of making a home exercise program. I recommend it to anyone wanting to use swiss balls for alternative exercises.

This is a great book!! It provides with clear detailed instructions, purposes of exercises and demonstration pictures of how to perform each exercise. It is simply an excellent reference to provide your patients with a challenging but fun exercise program. Highly recommended!

This is a great book!! It provides with clear detailed instructions, purposes of exercises and demonstration pictures of how to perform each exercise. It is simply an excellent reference to provide your patients with a challenging but fun exercise program. Highly recommended!

I am a physical therapist and have found this book very handy for learning exercises on the theraball, and creating a home exercise program for patients. Very useful!

My therapist recommended this book for me to use in my own rehab program after I had finished 6 months of formal rehab for spinal rod and disc surgery. There are different levels of difficulty. My therapist was kind enough to go thru and mark the exercises accordingly and it has greatly extended my range of motion and flexibility without undue stress on the rest of my body. I am imobile from the neck to the waist and I use these exercises everyday. I would highly recommend this in conjunction with a prescribed phisical therapy rehad program

There are hundreds of exercises in this book, everything from beginner to advanced. There is a section with a series of exercises combining the swiss ball and a resistive band; also a section of hand exercises using a small (high-bounce) ball (a very effective tool for exercising the hand). There is something for everyone at any level of fitness in this book. Each exercise is clearly illustrated with a drawing and concise written instructions.

After major back surgery, this was recommended by my PT gal --- very well written, easy to use, and helped me alot.

Great book! I work as a Physical Therapist Assistant. I use this book with my patients for core strengthening and stability in the low back. It is a neat book as it allows copying and administering to patients for the purpose of creating a home exercise program. The author herself is a physical therapist who understands this need. The book arrived in a timely manner, and in condition described. I highly recommend this book and would buy from the seller again!

After reading the other reviews I was rather disapointed in this book. It sums up a lot of exercises a therapeut might prescribe and one could do with (or without) a swiss ball. Purpose and description of each exercise is very brief, making it easy to follow and easy to use wrong without proper guidance. This book does not advise exercises for any conditions, nor give therapeutic background to the exercises mentioned. So in the end it is only a set of 250 handouts a therapist might give as a reminder to patients.

Was looking for this book which my physical therapist recommended to have on hand after back surgery. Found it on Amazon from one of their merchants. Shipment was fast and no problems.