Muscular Retraining for Pain-Free Living
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (918 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1590303679 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 198 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
These types of chronic pain can be caused by a number of factors, including old injuries, habitual movement patterns, problems with body alignment, psychological causes, and inability to sense your own body movements accurately. Muscular Retraining for Pain-Free Living clearly and concisely explains the causes of persistent muscle pain and offers a therapeutic exercise program to address these problems and end pain. This book explains the basic principles behind Williamson Muscular Retraining, a pain-relief discipline, in a way that is practical and easy to understand. The problems of poor posture, muscle tension, and stress-caused pain are corrected by seeing them through the lens of kinesthetic awareness. Normal kinesthetic awareness is lacking in much of the population and typically overlooked by health care practitioners. Muscular Retraining for Pain-Free Living presents case examples of how people have used kinesthetic awareness and exercises to change how they think of their bodies and to end pain.. Here's an innovative and practical approach to eliminating chronic muscle pain, written by a popular occupational therapist with thirty years of experience freeing people from the discomfort of tendonitis, lower back pain, and nec
J. Law said Thank you Craig Williamson!. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has muscular pain issues. As someone who has suffered from neck, shoulder and hip stiffness and pain for years I can tell you that this book - both the narrative as well as the exercises - have helped me tremendously!In the narrative, Craig Williamson not only provides the muscular/spinal theory behind why we have pain and how it can be alleviated, but provides numerous examples from his occupational therapy pra. Information and Exercises to Fundamentally Change Your Body Anita Boser There are three things I really appreciate about this book:1) The explanation of how being focused on the goal of movement, such as running 5K or lifting a certain weight, creates a lot of injury. The author shows how process-focused movement will prevent injury, increase awareness and add enjoyment to your life.2) Anatomy and movement terminology is understandable for the average person. This book is very readable and covers sources of pain from tension. Muscular Retraining is a MUST READ!! Craig Williamson has written a thorough, scholarly, and yet user-friendly book about the management and relief of muscular and neuromuscular pain. He gives us complete exercises that make sense and are easy to follow. For those of us baby-boomers who have exercised for too many years without the proper form and relaxation techniques, I highly recommend this book to help you stay healthy so you can exercise for years to come. I have given this book to at
His book is a breath of fresh air—an appeal to the innate but largely unused power of our kinesthetic intelligence to heal and 'right' ourselves."—Tom Myers, LMT, NCTMB, author of Anatomy Trains "I recommend Muscular Retraining for Pain-Free Living for yoga teachers as well as anyone who wants to move with better function, elegance, and ease."—Judith Hanson Lasater, PhD, physical therapist and yoga teacher since 1971; author of six books, including A Year of Living Your Yoga"Craig Williamson's Muscular Retraining for Pain-Free Living is a revelation fo
Craig Williamson, MSOT, is an occupational therapist who treats patients with persistent pain problems. He lives and practices in Portland, Maine. He is the pioneer of Somatic Integration (somaticintegration), an approach to muscular pain relief that includes muscular retraining techniques and specific, targeted exercises.