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Anyone who either personally has or professionally deals with back pain should read Bruce Kodish's book. -- Ron Dennis, Ed.D., veteran teacher of the Alexander Technique and founder of PostureSense®
Bruce I. Kodish is a modern day alchemist. He has taken a remarkably complex issue and distilled ... sensible solutions... -- Barrett L. Dorko, P.T., originator of Simple Contact and author of "Shallow Dive: Essays on the Craft of Manual Care"
Bruce I. Kodish is a modern day alchemist. He has taken a remarkably complex issue and distilled ... sensible solutions... -- Barrett L. Dorko, P.T., originator of Simple Contact and author of "Shallow Dive: Essays on the Craft of Manual Care"
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Presents an original body-mind model which explains in clear, non-academic prose the causes, treatment and prevention of activity-related (posture-movement-related) back pain. Details a continuum of therapy and education to deal with such problems. Provides self-care guidelines for controlling pain and improving posture. The self-care principles apply not only to back pain but to other musculoskeletal problems as well.
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You wake up one morning feeling stiff in your back. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unnecessary guarding, postural variety, better body use, free your neck, centralization phenomenon, constructive rest position, derangement syndrome, faulty effort, prone progression, mechanical diagnosis, back pain solutions, recovering function, personal scientist, adaptive shortening, orthopaedic medicine, soft tissue changes, transmitting cells, yourself sane, movement testing, soft tissue contractures, dynamic posture, lengthening spine, body mechanics, sit bones, spinal extension Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Alexander Technique, Tai Chi, General Semantics, Matthias Alexander, Perceptual Control Theory, Making Sense of Behavior, Ron Dennis, The Back Letter, Aldous Huxley, Drive Yourself Sane, James Cyriax, Textbook of Orthopaedic Medicine, The Slipped Disc, United States, Wilfred Barlow, Charlotte Schuchardt Read, Growing Young, Its Usefulness, Simple Contact, The Science of Suffering, Body Harmony New!
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You wake up one morning feeling stiff in your back. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unnecessary guarding, postural variety, better body use, free your neck, centralization phenomenon, constructive rest position, derangement syndrome, faulty effort, prone progression, mechanical diagnosis, back pain solutions, recovering function, personal scientist, adaptive shortening, orthopaedic medicine, soft tissue changes, transmitting cells, yourself sane, movement testing, soft tissue contractures, dynamic posture, lengthening spine, body mechanics, sit bones, spinal extension Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Alexander Technique, Tai Chi, General Semantics, Matthias Alexander, Perceptual Control Theory, Making Sense of Behavior, Ron Dennis, The Back Letter, Aldous Huxley, Drive Yourself Sane, James Cyriax, Textbook of Orthopaedic Medicine, The Slipped Disc, United States, Wilfred Barlow, Charlotte Schuchardt Read, Growing Young, Its Usefulness, Simple Contact, The Science of Suffering, Body Harmony New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Alexander Technique by Wilfred Barlow on 5 pages
- Alexander Technique (Alternative Health) by Chris Stevens on 5 pages
- Growing Young: Second Edition by Ashley Montagu on 4 pages
- The Slipped Disc by James Cyriax on page 276, page 283, and page 287
- The Use of the Self by F. Matthias Alexander on page 45, page 50, and page 53
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- Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy: Theoretical Developments (Advancing Theory Intherapy) by Windy Dryden in Front Matter
- Drive Yourself Sane : Using the Uncommon Sense of General Semantics, Revised Second Edition by Susan Presby Kodish in Back Matter
- Dare to Inquire: Sanity and Survival for the 21st Century and Beyond by Bruce I. Kodish in Back Matter
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