Download or read book Beat Back Pain with the Alexander Technique written by Richard Craze and published by Teach Yourself. This book was released on 2010-01-29 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Alexander Technique is now proven to overcome back pain, and is recommended by the NHS to sufferers. Buying this book might save you a visit to your doctor, but more importantly will give you a simple, no-nonsense, step-by-step guide to how to use this technique. It makes the physical facts easy to understand and the spiritual aspect straightforward with simple language, making sure that you benefit from better mental health as well as a pain-free life. NOT GOT MUCH TIME? One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started. AUTHOR INSIGHTS Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience. TEST YOURSELF Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress. EXTEND YOUR KNOWLEDGE Extra online articles at www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of the Alexander Technique. FIVE THINGS TO REMEMBER Quick refreshers to help you remember the key facts. TRY THIS Innovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it

Download or read book Beat Back Pain written by Ruth Chambers and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers practical and effective guidelines on how to understand the causes of back pain and how to eliminate them for a pain-free lifestyle.

Download or read book Beat Back Pain 52 Brilliant Ideas written by Ruth Chambers, MD and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People often learn to live with back pain, suffering through the day with just some aspirin to get by. Chances are they’ve tried every supposed remedy out there—yet still find simple tasks like putting away the groceries or getting out of the car to be an ordeal. With proven techniques and clever tricks, Beat Back Pain helps sufferers understand what triggers their problems—and how to alleviate them to live pain-free.

Download or read book Beat Your Pain and Find Lasting Relief written by Paul Jenner and published by Teach Yourself. This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One in six people suffer from chronic pain. There are no shortage of practitioners promising to cure it, from doctors and therapists to acupuncturists and hypnotists. But with so many different options on offer, many sufferers find themselves bewildered by their choices and unable to move forward. This jargon-free and accessible guide to overcoming chronic pain will enable you to understand the potential benefits of all the options available to you, and work with your medical professionals to make informed choices about your pain relief. It covers: * prescription and non-prescription painkillers * mental techniques, including hypnosis and NLP * food therapies * posture, movement and exercise to offer a comprehensive range of solutions, whatever the source of your pain.

Download or read book Strong Women Strong Backs written by Miriam E. Nelson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive reference for women shares practical advice and high-energy anecdotes on how to maintain back health, discussing such topics as the role of stress in back pain, women-specific exercises, and creating a back-friendly home and office environment. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Download or read book Beat Depression Fast written by Alexandra Massey and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her latest book, depression counselor, Alexandra Massey, distils years of hard-won strategies for treating depression. She provides an easy-to-follow ten-step program that will help you beat it quickly and without pharmaceuticals. Massey, who has suffered from depression most of her life, refused to take prescription drugs when her symptoms became debilitating. “I was very clear about the root cause of the depression,” she says. “It was very, very low self-esteem. The overriding symptom was deep hopelessness and I had a sense that connecting with others who knew how I felt was what I needed—not drugs.” According to Massey, the first step toward recovery from depression is acceptance. “Depression is like wet sand. The more you push, the harder it gets. By accepting depression, you will find a sense of relief.” The second step is trust. “When we are dealing with the despair and hopelessness of depression, it’s almost impossible to believe that everything is going to turn out OK,” she writes. Massey attributes her own recovery in part to her years-long participation in 12-step programs. From the recovery movement she learned the power of “letting a greater power into your life.” Says Massey, “For me, real change didn’t happen until I acknowledged that I couldn’t beat depression on my own and that I needed to rely on something bigger and wiser than myself.” These are the foundations stones. The remaining steps will lead you on a journey to a new, depression-free life. By following the steps, you will find greater peace of mind, more resilience, and, inevitably, the reemergence of your dreams.

Download or read book All You Need to Know about Back Pain written by Mary Anne Dunkin and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This helpful handbook explains the possible causes of back pain, from injury to illnesses, shows ways to adapt one's movements, explains drug or surgical options, and guides the reader in creating a full, active life. 20 two-color illustrations.

Download or read book How You Stand How You Move How You Live written by Missy Vineyard and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2008-03-24 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Alexander Technique (AT) is a remarkably simple but powerful method for learning to skillfully control how your brain and body interact, allowing you to better coordinate your movements while increasing the accuracy of your mind's thoughts and perceptions. Now, in How You Stand, How You Move, How You Live, leading Alexander Technique master teacher Missy Vineyard sheds a completely fresh light on this revolutionary method and, in the process, offers path-breaking insight into the mind-body connection. Vineyard thoroughly explains and teaches the central skills of the AT through simple self-experiments, and she offers engaging stories of students in their lessons to show its effective application across a range of disciplines, including the performing arts, athletics, health, psychology, and education. How You Stand, How You Move, How You Live introduces us to a world within ourselves that we know surprisingly little about--and thereby helps us to understand why we often cannot do what we should be able to do, why we harm ourselves with chronic tension and anxiety, and why our thoughts often seem beyond our control. Vineyard is also the first AT teacher to draw on cutting-edge research in neuroscience and to synthesize those findings with AT theories and techniques. She fully illuminates the benefits to be reaped by mastery of the Alexander Technique, which include: Release from acute or chronic physical pain Enhanced mental attention and focus Reduced anxiety Improved balance and coordination Relief from tension and stress Increased ease and efficiency performing precise movement skills

Download or read book Oxford Textbook of Musculoskeletal Medicine written by Michael Hutson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 759 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This all-in-one companion to the field of musculoskeletal medicine describes basic concepts and offers practical guidelines for diagnosis and treatment, and contains models of care which assist understanding of basic concepts.

Download or read book The Posture Workbook written by Carolyn Nicholls and published by D&B Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DO you suffer from back or muscle pain? DOES the pain interfere with your life? DID you know poor posture is at the root of the majority of these problems? Poor posture can interfere with your mobility, breathing, circulation and digestion. It can contribute to overuse injuries to hands, arms and shoulders. It can affect your sense of wellbeing. IS there anything you can do to help yourself? With the help of this book the answer is a resounding – YES! Drawing on her 30 years of experience as a teacher of the Alexander Technique, Carolyn Nicholls explains exactly how to eliminate tension throughout your body and improve your habitual patterns of movement. Carolyn identifies typical behaviours that can result in unhealthy posture and explains how they can be improved. The Posture Workbook illustrates 5 key exercises to improve posture, awareness, flexibility and mobility. These ’5-A-Day’ exercises will teach you how to move more freely and easily and show you how to live your life free from postural pain. Carolyn is the founder and Head of Training at the Brighton Alexander Technique College, UK and a national advisor on clinical trials on back pain. Her first book, Body, Breath and Being – a new guide to the Alexander Technique is a great critical and commercial success.

Download or read book Alexander Technique written by Richard Craze and published by NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sports Injuries E Book written by Malcolm T. F. Read and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2009-03-25 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sports Injuries provides an indispensable self-help guide to all the common injuries that occur. This book will help to:•quickly pinpoint the source of the injury •know which conditions you can treat yourself and when to visit an expert •stay fit and flexible during recovery •encourage your body to heal fasterEasy-to-follow illustrations help you to locate the area of pain quickly then guide you through a range of simple self-diagnostic tests and medical options. Once the problem and course of care are determined, unique fitness ladders tell you what you can do to stay mobile and how to avoid further injury. - Clear illustrations delineate the anatomical area, joint or muscle under consideration - Highly templated format gives diagnosis, cause, treatment (self or medical) and training points for each injury - Includes self-tests with diagrams to help pinpoint the specific injuries - Provides training ladders for safe rehabilitation of injury

Download or read book Body Learning written by Michael Gelb and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Alexander Technique is now recognized the world over as the most revolutionary and far-reaching method developed for maintaining the health and efficiency of the body."--Back cover

Download or read book The Alexander Technique For Actors written by Kelly McEvenue and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical book with illustrations links Alexander technique to acting, dancing and singing by the trainer of performers on The Lion King The Alexander Technique is a method of physical relaxation that reduces tension and strain throughout the body. It promotes a beneficial use of movement that is stress-free by learning to free-up the body. It teaches an individual to use their body efficiently in order to avoid damage or loss of control. Kelly McEvenue has been teaching the Alexander Technique to performers for nearly twenty years and is a world expert on the system. In this book she draws on her considerable experience and sets up a series of set-by-step warm-ups and exercises that anybody can follow. The exercises are linked to accurate anatomical drawings, showing where stress is most pronounced in the body. The Foreword is by Patsy Rodenburg, Head of Voice for the Royal National Theatre and author of Methuen titles The Right to Speak and The Actor Speaks.

Download or read book Beat Stress written by Alice Muir and published by Teach Yourself. This book was released on 2012-11-23 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beat Stress is a wholly practical guide to coping with stress, which draws on a mixture of CBT and NLP therapies, offering both long-term solutions and strategies to help you feel better now. It gives you a wide range of techniques that will successfully relax both body and mind, drawing extensively on Mindfulness practices, as well as showing you where you can find support, solutions and strategies online. There will be diagnostic tests to assess the level of your problem, 'quick fixes' which offer an immediate solution, 'points to remember', which will give long-term inspiration for those struggling, and clear guidance for what you can expect in the next chapter (Next Step). Designed to make the information work for you, this is the most effective and practical guide available to beating stress - forever.

Download or read book Fundamentals of Applied Pathophysiology written by Ian Peate and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fundamentals of Applied Pathophysiology continues to be an accessible and comprehensive introductory text to pathophysiology, written specifically for nursing and healthcare students to assist in the understanding of human anatomy, and the complex disease patterns that affect normal physiology. Thoroughly updated, and with full-colour illustrations throughout, this new edition incorporates additional learning features including reflective questions at the end of each chapter, investigation boxes, medication alerts, red flags to indicate essential information to be aware of when providing care, vital signs boxes relating to physiological measurements as well as inclusion of the National Early Warning Score. With emphasis placed on a multidisciplinary approach, Fundamentals of Applied Pathophysiology highlights the importance of contemporary, safe, and effective practice in an environment in which the delivery of care is constantly evolving.

Download or read book 8 Steps to a Pain Free Back written by Esther Gokhale and published by Pendo Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a fresh approach to a common problem, this self-help guide to overcoming back pain advocates adopting the natural, healthy posture of athletes, young children, and people from traditional societies the world over. Arguing that most of what our culture has taught us about posture is misguided—even unhealthy—and exploring the current epidemic of back pain, many of the commonly cited reasons for the degeneration of spinal discs and the stress on muscles that leads to back pain are examined and debunked. The historical and anthropological roots of poor posture in Western cultures are studied as is the absence of back pain complaints in the cultures of Africa, Asia, South America, and rural Europe. Eight detailed chapters provide illustrated step-by-step instructions for making simple, powerful changes to seated, standing, and sleeping positions. No special equipment or exercise is required, and effects are often immediate.