Pharmacology : Pain Free: A Revolutionary Method for Stopping Chronic Pain

Pain Free: A Revolutionary Method for Stopping Chronic Pain

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Pete Egoscue learned a lot about pain when, as a Marine officer, he was wounded in Vietnam. He segued from patient to physical therapist, and now runs a famous clinic in San Diego, where he claims he s helped 95 percent of his patients cure chronic pain--including Jack Nicklaus and Charles Barkley, whose athletic careers he helped prolong. At the heart of his program are stretches and motion exercises to restore proper function to muscles and joints. His methods are often surprising and counterintuitive. For example, for foot pain, he suggests a series of hip exercises. In fact, this is one of the most startling books you ll read about the human organism. Egoscue has strong opinions about how modern life is changing the way our bodies function, reducing the tasks we must perform and thus reducing the functional range of motion of our muscles and joints. Fortunately, he offers movement exercises to restore what nature meant us to have.

IF YOUR BACK HURTS, DON T FAIL TO READ THIS BOOK - Pete Egoscue s book was recommended to me by my boss, so how could I ignore it? To my surprise, it completely changed my life. If your back hurts enough or often enough to be reading this book review, make this purchase your number-one priority. Period.

Hundreds of little slips of paper. - I ve given hundreds of little slips of paper to people who walk by me walking with their shoulders turned so the backs of their hands face forward, with whom I get into casual conversation and hear about their hurting backs, or why they can t go to the gym any more. It s wonderful when you can graciously allow gravity to suggest to your muscles how they should be reacting. I haven t found that this method replaces a chiropractor, but is rather complementary to him, and to massage, etc. etc.

Resolved terrible chronic hip pain resulting from pregnancy - After having 5 children in under 7 years, my body was in terrible physical condition. My hips were particularly bad, and bending over was nearly impossible for me without terrible pain. Imagine that -- with 5 young children to pick up after!During one pregnancy I was in a wheelchair due to this pain, and even after the births, the pain was never completely gone.I spent thousands of dollars at the chiropractor, and found no relief until I tried prolotherapy and these exercises. I had only one prolotherapy treatment when I became pregnant again, and so couldn t continue the treatments. I felt better, but still had a disabling pain in my hips.I actually only did the Pain Free exercises 4 times -- over a period of 3 weeks -- but that was all that was necessary to completely eliminate all the hip pain I had been having for YEARS.What is even more remarkable, is that 3 of the times I did the exercises I was 8+ months pregnant, and once was soon after the birth, so I couldn t do all of them.Even still, just the little bit that I COULD do was wonderful! I recommend this book to everyone I know who has back problems. Egoscue is wonderful and has really made it possible for me to improve my life! I feel I owe him a great deal for this.

Resolved terrible chronic hip pain resulting from pregnancy - After having 5 children in under 7 years, my body was in terrible physical condition. My hips were particularly bad, and bending over was nearly impossible for me without terrible pain. Imagine that -- with 5 young children to pick up after!During one pregnancy I was in a wheelchair due to this pain, and even after the births, the pain was never completely gone.I spent thousands of dollars at the chiropractor, and found no relief until I tried prolotherapy and these exercises. I had only one prolotherapy treatment when I became pregnant again, and so couldn t continue the treatments. I felt better, but still had a disabling pain in my hips.I actually only did the Pain Free exercises 4 times -- over a period of 3 weeks -- but that was all that was necessary to completely eliminate all the hip pain I had been having for YEARS.What is even more remarkable, is that 3 of the times I did the exercises I was 8+ months pregnant, and once was soon after the birth, so I couldn t do all of them.Even still, just the little bit that I COULD do was wonderful! I recommend this book to everyone I know who has back problems. Egoscue is wonderful and has really made it possible for me to improve my life! I feel I owe him a great deal for this.

THE BIG ASK - It s a big ask expecting your body to get better by having someone do something to you -sooner or later you have to do something to yourself. The medical profession prescribes a tablet a creme or a cortisine injection and sends you for an Xray. The physio s give you a rub down, or connect you to a galvanometer. The chiro s give it a crunch once a month and expect you to keep coming back. The surgeons have their own remedy. The exercises you do at the gym are necessary, but not sufficient particularly when form and function are correlated. Egoscue knocked my previous beliefs on musculo-skeletal dysfunction into a cocked hat. The method is logical and compelling. Like all good ideas the best ones are usually the simplest. This is an excellent book for any practitioner involved in the diagnosis and treatment of people with musculo-skeletal dysfunction and for anyone with a crook back, stiff neck, sore shoulder, bung hip, game leg or dicky knee ... look no further.




Pain Free: A Revolutionary Method for Stopping Chronic Pain