A practical, useful, and most importantly natural approach to preventing and treating everyday pains and injuries. From herbal remedies to health foods and relaxing body treatments, cures to intolerable pain can be found outside the world of constant doctor visits and expensive prescriptions. Organized both by symptom as well as type of pain, Natural Pain Free offers multiple, cause-specific treatments for ailments such as headaches, joint pains, and gout, which can be instigated by multiple sources, as well as acute injuries like burns and sports wounds.
Chronic pain has become an epidemic in North America, yet our current health care system is ill equipped for treating sufferers. An expert in both conventional and holistic medicine, Dr. Heather Tick has spent twenty-five years treating patients for whom “all else has failed.” Based on her experience, Holistic Pain Relief offers practical guidance to anyone with pain. It includes easy-to-implement solutions for effective and permanent pain relief and also offers help to those with chronic conditions who feel confused, worried, or hopeless. Dr. Tick presents a new way of looking at pain with a focus on health. By helping you make informed choices about physical, emotional, and spiritual living, Holistic Pain Relief offers possibilities for recovery and information on a wide range of treatment and prevention options, including acupuncture, chiropractic techniques, intramuscular stimulation, dietary supplements, medication, nutrition, and exercise. The result is a realistic — and inspiring — prescription for pain-free living.
Western medicine has been trying to find out what causes pain without ever learning what pain is. Darrell Stoddard, Founder of the Pain Research Institute, has identified pain as the broken or suppressed electrical signals between cells in injured tissue
Starting today, you don't have to live in pain. “This book is extraordinary, and I am thrilled to recommend it to anyone who’s interested in dramatically increasing the quality of their physical health.”—Tony Robbins That is the revolutionary message of this breakthrough system for eliminating chronic pain without drugs, surgery, or expensive physical therapy. Developed by Pete Egoscue, a nationally renowned physiologist and sports injury consultant to some of today’s top athletes, the Egoscue Method has an astounding 95 percent success rate. The key is a series of gentle exercises and carefully constructed stretches called E-cises. Inside you’ll find detailed photographs and step-by-step instructions for dozens of e-cizes specifically designed to provide quick and lasting relief of: • Lower back pain, hip problems, sciatica, and bad knees • Carpal tunnel syndrome and even some forms of arthritis • Migraines and other headaches, stiff neck, fatigue, sinus problems, vertigo, and TMJ • Shin splints, varicose veins, sprained or weak ankles, and many foot ailments • Bursitis, tendinitis, and rotator cuff problems Plus special preventive programs for maintaining health through the entire body. With this book in hand, you’re on your way to regaining the greatest gift of all: a pain-free body!
As you reach your midforties and beyond, joint pain can become a fact of life. You may suffer from arthritis or old sports injuries, suddenly develop a frozen shoulder, or tear a meniscus in the knee. Whatever the cause of your pain, Secrets of a Pain-Free Life offers a simple, nonsurgical solution that may be right for you: physical therapy. The goal is to recover your ability to do everyday activities. Painful joints can affect many tasks, from the mundane to the specialized, and therefore relief can improve your entire outlook on life. Dr. Stacey Raybuck Schatz, DPT, MS, OCS, presents a reader-friendly overview of how and why physical therapy can help many patients regain pain-free movement naturally and without medications, injections, or surgery. She provides helpful advice on topics such as quick pain relief, the wisdom of treating the symptoms versus the causes of pain, and signs that therapy is working. She also steps back to cover the basics, such as when to seek treatment and where to go. Pain-free movement is often achievable through physical therapy. You owe it to yourself to give it a try before you resort to more intrusive treatment strategies.
TACKLE YOUR PAIN THE NATURAL WAY Whether you've dealt with a lifetime of chronic aches and pains or suffer from a specific ailment, when you're in constant pain, relief is the only thing on your mind. Are you using the same over–the–counter painkiller to treat everything from toothaches to knee pain? If so, you may only be providing a temporary mask to your suffering—not healing it—and it's only a matter of time before the pain returns. Every pain is unique, from headaches to back strains to arthritis, and there's no one–solution–fits–all to alleviate your suffering. Natural remedies expert Letha Hadady knows that to treat pain you must focus on the cause. Organizing her advice by both symptom and type of pain, Hadady guides you on how to use a variety of all–natural herbs, extracts, and pills to ease and control the source of your suffering. Find Natural Pain Remedies For: •Arthritis •Sciatica •Backaches •Chest Pains •Nerve Pain •Migraines •Burns •Knee Discomfort •Carpal Tunnel Syndrome And More... Praise for Letha Hadady "There is no one else of Letha's stature, experience, and knowledge in the field of alternative medicine." —ALICE RHEE, NBC NEWS "The Martha Stewart of herbs." —CONDE NAST TRAVELER "Her encyclopedic knowledge of health and beauty is evident." —DAILY NEWS "Letha unearths the wisdom of the ancients." —NEW YORK POST
An essential self-help guide to treatment of chronic pain based on myofascial release This indispensible self-help guide is for anyone suffering from chronic pain and struggling to understand why standard medical approaches have failed them. Taking a mind-body approach, the book clearly and simply explains how chronic pain develops, and why an understanding of fascia—the main connective tissue in the body—is the key to restoring pain-free movement and health. Author and myofascial release expert Amanda Oswald informs readers about the role of fascia in chronic pain and empowers them to help themselves through simple and effective self-care techniques, stretches, and exercises. Living Pain Free is a must-read for anyone experiencing chronic pain from conditions including migraines and headaches, repetitive strain injury (RSI), jaw (TMJ) pain, frozen shoulder, neck and back pain, chronic pelvic pain, scar tissue, and systemic pain conditions such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and myofascial pain syndrome. It will also benefit anyone interested in understanding chronic pain from a myofascial perspective.
Restoring healthy posture from childhood for relief from chronic pain, easy flexibility, and enduring strength and vitality well into old age • Offers 12 physical exercises to become mindful of your posture and discover pain-free alignment of your pelvis, rib cage, shoulders, neck, and back • Provides simple yet detailed instructions on how to sit, stand, walk, bend, get up from a chair, sit to meditate, sleep, and practice yoga with proper alignment • Includes detailed diagrams and posture photographs from around the world Our bones are the framework of support for our bodies, much like the wall studs and beams of a house. Yet the alignment of the skeleton along the vertical axis of gravity is largely overlooked today, even by fitness experts and yoga teachers. In a culture of cocked hips, sauntering models, and slouching TV watchers, where “chin up, shoulders back, stomach in” is believed to be good posture, we have forgotten what healthy alignment looks and feels like--leading to chronic neck, shoulder, and back pain for millions. Sharing photographs from around the world of “gurus” of natural posture and authentic strength, such as women in their 80s who easily carry heavy loads on their heads and toddlers learning to walk, Kathleen Porter shows what natural skeletal alignment truly looks like. With insights based on the fundamental laws of physics and detailed diagrams, she guides you through an understanding of the body’s naturally pain-free design. She explains that when the body is aligned as nature intended, your weight is supported by your bones rather than your muscles, allowing a blissful release from chronic muscular tension--which you may not even be aware you had. She offers 12 physical exercises to become mindful of your posture and discover healthy alignment of your pelvis, rib cage, shoulders, neck, and your body as a whole. Providing easy-to-follow instructions for mindful alignment during the most ordinary daily activities, even sleeping, as well as a chapter on practicing yoga safely, Porter shows how returning to our forgotten alignment from childhood can offer relief from chronic pain and tension and can provide easy flexibility, enduring strength, and vitality well into old age.
