Get healthy without getting hurt with this guide to warming up, getting limber, and preventing injury before you exercise.It doesn't matter if you're a fitness novice or an elite athlete. You should be starting each workout exactly the same way, with a stretching regimen designed to warm up your body and help you achieve a new personal best each time. Without the expertise of a professional trainer and without an expert's understanding of muscle anatomy, it can be ...

Trigger point therapy is one of the fastest-growing and most effective pain therapies in the world. Medical doctors, chiropractors, physical therapists, and massage therapists are all beginning to use this technique to relieve patients’ formerly undiagnosable muscle and joint pain, both conditions that studies have shown to be the cause of nearly 25 percent of all doctor visits.This book addresses the problem of myofascial trigger points—tiny contraction knots that develop in a mus...

"I woke up one morning and could not get out of bed – literally.  Every time I attempted to raise myself to a sitting position, pain shot through my lower back and into my left hip and buttock..." Does this sound familiar to you? That was 6 years ago when I first experienced the shocking sciatica pain. Horror could not begin to describe how I felt that day. For the next 12 weeks I went through hell and back. Through a series ...

An illustrated guide to the anatomy of the abdominal muscles and how to tone them successfully without injury• Presents the 16 most effective and safest abdominal exercises for great abs• Reveals how common ab exercises, such as crunches, can damage the spine, pelvic floor, diaphragm, and internal organs• Offers tips to get rid of belly fat--both superficial fat and deeper visceral fatPresenting a new type of abdominal exercise program designed with the body...

A concise and practical guide to fifty essential stretches featuring instructions, illustrations, and information on the benefits of each stretch.Stretching is one of the most effective ways to enhance your overall fitness. It can help you maintain flexibility, prevent injury, release tension, and reduce stress. With fifty stretches for your neck, upper body, back, and legs, Stretch: Reference to Go provides an easy way to incorporate stretching into your d...

Clear information and effective exercises to end pain, regain range of motion, and prevent future injury—includes over 300 photos.Shoulder problems can be debilitating, whether they come from sports injuries or just daily stresses and strains. Healthy Shoulder Handbook outlines the causes for common shoulder conditions, including shoulder impingement, rotator cuff, tendinitis, dislocation, and repetitive motion injuries. Illustrated with over 300 step-by-st...

A guide to the treatment of pain from common sports injuries and other physical activities• Contains at-home techniques to promote healing and self-awareness of the body’s musculature• Explains how to relieve pain using manual massage in conjunction with small physio balls• Includes an illustrated treatment reference section organized by region of the bodyThe vast majority of physical injuries incurred by active people begin with muscular injuries that are n...

75% of pain is caused by trigger points (areas of contracted cells in muscle tissue), but they are drastically under-diagnosed as the source of pain. Trigger points may refer pain and other symptoms both in the local area and/or to other areas of the body, but since over 74% of trigger points are not located in the area where you feel pain, treating the local area does not resolve the problem most of the time. The most common "referral patterns" have been well documented and diagrammed ove...

Running Injuries, offers easy to access tips on treating and avoiding injuries. This book will help runners and walkers understand how injuries occur, how to prevent them, how to heal them: knee, foot, calf, iliotibial band, plantar fasciia, Achilles tendon, neuroma, and much more. There is also a section on coming back from an injury and exercising while injured.

75% of pain is caused by trigger points (areas of contracted cells in muscle tissue), but they are drastically under-diagnosed as the source of pain. Trigger points may refer pain and other symptoms both in the local area and/or to other areas of the body, but since over 74% of trigger points are not located in the area where you feel pain, treating the local area does not resolve the problem most of the time. The most common "referral patterns" have been well documented and diagrammed ove...

A world-renowned clinician's practical and complete guide to understanding and alleviating neurological pain in the lower back, buttocks, and legs.Sciatica is the feeling of pain, numbness, "electric shocks," or strange sensations in the seat and running down the leg. It will afflict some five million Americans this year. In easy-to-understand terms, Loren Fishman demystifies the relationship between neurological injury and sciatica, explains the most common causes, leads readers t...

This is a collection of multiple choice questions (with diagrams) on introduction to the body. Topics covered include levels of organization, metabolism, homeostasis, location terms, body parts, body areas, body cavities, body sections and organ systems.