Pain Free for Women: The Revolutionary Program for Ending Chronic Pain by Pete E

Description: Pain Free for Women by Pete Egoscue, Roger Gittines Focusing on proper alignment, posture and muscle engagement, Egoscue provides simple but powerful techniques to restore flexibility and function while at the same time boosting energy, revving up the immune system, even raising the bodys metabolic rate. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description "Women today not only deserve but should expect a pain-free, active lifestyle, no matter their age, no matter their previous experience."Pain Free for WomenIn his famed San Diego clinic, Pete Egoscue has taught women of all ages and from all walks of life how to use the Egoscue Method for safe, effective, and permanent relief from chronic pain without prescription painkillers, physical therapy, or invasive surgery. Now he shares his specially adapted "Pain Free" program for women to use at home.Whether you suffer from back or neck pain, joint discomfort or sore knees, or need more stamina, improved balance, and extra strength, here is a revolutionary and proven approach to self-care that promises optimal health through a simple set of exercises that will transform the way you move and feel - forever!Egoscue shows women how to take back their bodies by recovering and restoring a precious health asset - full, free, flexible motion - that he believes has been drastically reduced by our modern lifestyle.As Egoscue explains, motion not only develops a womans body but also maintains and rejuvenates it. Yet as her motion-deprived muscles disengage and weaken, it is common for a womans body to lose alignment, leading to repetitive stress injuries, persistent pain, and general bad health. Even the simplest activities - how she sits, stands, walks, works, lifts, and sleeps - can trigger problems.Focusing on proper alignment, posture, and muscle engagement, Egoscue provides simple but powerful techniques to restore flexibility and function while at the same time boosting energy, revving up the immune system, even raising the bodys metabolic rate.The remarkable "E-cises" included within have also been linked to improved ability to fight disease, cope with aging, and recover from accidents and injuries. The "miracle" cure Egoscue offers is, simply, correct motion.Organized by the seasons of a womans life, Pain Free for Women pays particular attention to age-specific concerns such as puberty, childbirth, and menopause, as well as special issues such as arthritis, PMS, and depression.At the same time, Egoscue shows how women can build a framework of healthy movement that will prevent illness and maintain pain-free good health throughout the journey of life.According to Egoscue, reversing the effects of poor musculoskeletal fitness provides astonishing benefits, including-.Better balance, posture, and breathing, as well as increased resiliency.Effective and safe weight management.Healthy bone density and visual acuity.Heightened sex drive.Delayed symptoms of aging.Peace of mind and general tranquilityExtensively illustrated to demonstrate proper placement, posture, and movement, Pain Free for Women offers women of every age the possibility of feeling better than ever before. Author Biography An anatomical functionalist, Pete Egoscue, founder of The Egoscue Method Clinic in San Diego, has been practicing and perfecting his "Pain Free" method since 1971. He helps more than 25,000 people a year recover from chronic pain.Roger Gittines lives in Washington, D.C. Review Women from every walk of life praise the Pain Free advantage:"Thanks to Pete Egoscue, Ive been pain free for ten years. But even more important, the Egoscue Method has empowered me with the tools to stay that way! Its freedom in the truest sense of the word."— Carol LeBeau, news anchor and health reporter, KGT-TV, San Diego"I was an eleven-year-old aspiring athlete when I first started working with Pete Egoscue. At eighteen, I made tennis history by winning nine straight matches to become the first woman qualifier to get to the semifinals at Wimbledon, a feat only John McEnroe had performed in mens tennis. What a season! The Egoscue Method is a gift to women in every season of their lives."— Alexandra Stevenson, professional tennis player"Pain Free for Women answers the many questions I have about my health and my childrens well-being. It has encouraged me to trust my instincts as a mom and to take charge of my familys health."— Linda Lynch, former professional tennis player and mother of two"When I first met Pete Egoscue, I had just had my fourth baby by C-section and was in the hospital recovering from emergency back surgery. I was so weak that I would lie on a futon in the family room as my children played around me! At twenty-nine, I didnt think I would ever be able to play and be active again. Pete and the Egoscue Method showed me how wrong I was! Not only did Pete rehabilitate me and take me out of the severe pain I had dealt with for years, he enabled me to enjoy activities I never could in the past, such as riding horses, playing tennis, soccer, and basketball, running, and practicing yoga. I cannot rave enough about the Egoscue Method. Anyone who is in pain can change their life — it has been proven!"— Sonia Jones, former model and mother of four"Pete Egoscue changed my life in the most positive ways imaginable. Pain Free for Women is a must read for women of all ages — its a brilliant blueprint for enhancing the quality of ones life."— Sheila Grant, arts patron, cofounder of a regional ballet in Texas, and civic leader Review Quote Women from every walk of life praise the Pain Free advantage: "Thanks to Pete Egoscue, Ive been pain free for ten years. But even more important, the Egoscue Method has empowered me with the tools to stay that way! Its freedom in the truest sense of the word." - Carol LeBeau, news anchor and health reporter, KGT-TV, San Diego "I was an eleven-year-old aspiring athlete when I first started working with Pete Egoscue. At eighteen, I made tennis history by winning nine straight matches to become the first woman qualifier to get to the semifinals at Wimbledon, a feat only John McEnroe had performed in mens tennis. What a season! The Egoscue Method is a gift to women in every season of their lives." - Alexandra Stevenson, professional tennis player "Pain Free for Womenanswers the many questions I have about my health and my childrens well-being. It has encouraged me to trust my instincts as a mom and to take charge of my familys health." - Linda Lynch, former professional tennis player and mother of two "When I first met Pete Egoscue, I had just had my fourth baby by C-section and was in the hospital recovering from emergency back surgery. I was so weak that I would lie on a futon in the family room as my children played around me! At twenty-nine, I didnt think I would ever be able to play and be active again. Pete and the Egoscue Method showed me how wrong I was! Not only did Pete rehabilitate me and take me out of the severe pain I had dealt with for years, he enabled me to enjoy activities I never could in the past, such as riding horses, playing tennis, soccer, and basketball, running, and practicing yoga. I cannot rave enough about the Egoscue Method. Anyone who is in pain can change their life - it has been proven!" - Sonia Jones, former model and mother of four "Pete Egoscue changed my life in the most positive ways imaginable.Pain Free for Womenis a must read for women of all ages - its a brilliant blueprint for enhancing the quality of ones life." - Sheila Grant, arts patron, cofounder of a regional ballet in Texas, and civic leader From the Hardcover edition. Excerpt from Book Chapter 1 Structure and Stricture Look at the drawing of the human skeleton in Figure 1-1, and tell me whether it is male or female. Take your time. Give up? It would require a lucky guess or specialized training to know youre looking at a female skeleton. Likewise, the drawing of the human musculature, in Figure 1-2, is also difficult to identify as female. Ill spare you a third illustration that makes the same point about the central nervous system. What is my point? Muscles, bones, and nerves--the three major components of the musculoskeletal system--and the way they are assembled, are nearly identical for both men and women. The word nearly here isnt a loophole: it means we are roughly 99.99999999999 percent the same. Out of all our many bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments, joints, and neural axons, only two bones are slightly different in men and women: the pelvis and the femur. The female pelvis is broader than the males, with wider and deeper inlets and outlets, and it has relatively less overall bone mass. (Technically the pelvis comprises four bones, but Im considering it as a single entity since these bones are fused in adults.) As for the femur (thighbone), its head end--the one that fits snugly into the socket of the hip joint to form the bodys strongest joint--forms the connection at a more pronounced angle, giving the pelvis more leeway to tip into the birthing position. Because of the broader female pelvis, the female femur also has a slightly greater angle of incline as it descends to the knee. Thats it. Anything else that youve heard or read about differences in joints, ligaments, and such is pure unproved conjecture. I wont even call it theory. Im not knocking conjecture; I resort to it myself. But solid, undisputed evidence exists only for these two structural differences. As for the skeletal muscles, they have no gender-specific shapes, composition, or locomotor functions. An artist illustrating a medical text would probably have to include genitals or a profile to clue readers to whether they were examining a male or a female. Grays Anatomy , first published in the mid-nineteenth century, recognizes that the human musculoskeletal system is the same for both males and females. Most of the illustrations in the 1901 edition, for example, are genderless. Intricate black-and-white line drawings powerfully convey the ruggedness of the human biomechanical structures that are common to both sexes. Looking at them, you could be reading a blueprint for an immense and revolutionary machine possessing the sheer might and ingenuity to change the face of the world--and, in fact, you are. Unfortunately, the Grays example is not widely followed these days. The latest edition of a classic kinesiology handbook has only five or six illustrations using female models, compared with dozens showing men as examples of strength and overall function. The same is true of a thick human anatomy and physiology text that describes itself as intended for students in health, medicine, and biology programs. Perhaps those authors and publishers were chary about displaying the unclothed female torso; if so, we need to start growing up. Id like to think that when Brandi Chastain exuberantly doffed her jersey to celebrate her teams 1999 World Cup soccer championship playoff victory, the gesture made the pages of anatomy texts safe for sports bras. Farewell to Tarzan The suggestion that men are the gold standard of musculoskeletal fitness and function does triple-barreled mischief. For starters, it helps mislead women to believe that no matter what they do, theyll never achieve strength and functional parity with men--or even come reasonably close. This leads to a "Boys are strong, girls are weak" mentality that reinforces stereotypes that help deny women access to their aspirations. Second, the notion that a womans body is substandard or abnormal invites pharmaceutical and technological means to come to her aid and to correct these shortcomings. One orthopedic clinic I know runs a newspaper ad that features an eye-catching illustration of a shapely, sexy leg--with the knee surrounded by construction scaffolding. The product is--what else?--reconstructive knee surgery for women. The ad even hints that beautiful knees are the work of a surgeons scalpel. Inevitably, with more than 50 percent of the population as potential customers, the medical marketplace tries to provide a stream of new products to remedy the ever-widening circle of womens health problems and supposed design defects, like the "accident-prone" female knee. The notion of female design defects leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy. If a woman is persuaded that her knees and muscles and bones are not designed to be strong and functional, the positive health benefits of having such strength and function will be lost to her. She will be frail, sick, and accident prone. No medical product ever devised can take the place of a healthy musculoskeletal system. But without a healthy system, there can only be a downward spiral of breakdown-intervention-breakdown-intervention. On that prediction, my crystal ball is absolutely clear. The third piece of mischief is the supposition that men are stronger, fitter, and more functional than women. The male models in anatomy texts may seem that way, but their standard is a false one, because the vast majority of men have no material advantage. On average, men are somewhat larger (about 10 percent taller--big deal!), have less fat tissue (15 percent--how thrilling!), and more muscle mass (an underwhelming 15 percent) than women. These few small distinctions do not add up to significant differences. A Curve That Keeps Us Straight In Chapter 4 Ill explore more fully the differences--real and mythical--between men and women. In the meantime, we need to know more about the bodys response to a force of nature that all humans must cope with: gravity. We tend to think of splitting the atom and landing on the moon as great feats of human genius. But they are nothing compared with our first conquest that took place about three million years ago, when Lucy knocked gravity on its butt. Lucy is the name given to the fossil remains of our earliest known hominid ancestor to walk upright. She probably wasnt really the first, but with her demonstrated staying power, she can keep the gravity buster trophy until someone with a better claim comes along. Gravity is a useful service: it keeps animate and inanimate objects from whirling off into space. But it also creates a problem for the animate objects, which have to animate themselves. To accomplish the job, they have evolved intriguing skills such as crawling on the belly, swimming through the sea, and taking wing to fly. The one that most fascinates me, though, is the one that involves hoisting a heavy three-foot-long pod containing a couple of buckets of blood and gurgling tissue up onto a pair of jointed stilts that are secured to two small platforms that any novice engineer would see are too tiny to balance the weight. Performing this feat of animation would be quite a challenge in its own right. But contriving to lift and swing those platforms forward one at a time with a roundish eight- or nine-pound canister, the skull, riding precariously on top is truly astounding. Yet not only does this antigravity package stay upright and moving, it will shake its bootie and dance the Watusi (if its old enough to remember 1960s dance crazes). Truly, just standing up and walking is a biomechanical marvel that we take totally for granted. Try it. Stand up, walk across the room, and come back. Savor the experience. Youve just used a vehicle that makes a Boeing 757 seem as primitive as a skateboard. The 757 can only taxi down a runway and fly. You can run, jump, stretch, bend over at the waist, punch with your left, jab with your right, tap a keyboard, throw a fastball, paint water lilies, or play a Chopin Details ISBN0553380494 Author Roger Gittines Short Title PAIN FREE FOR WOMEN Pages 480 Language English ISBN-10 0553380494 ISBN-13 9780553380491 Media Book Format Paperback Illustrations Yes Year 2003 Imprint Random House USA Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Residence San Diego, CA, US Subtitle The Revolutionary Program for Ending Chronic Pain DOI 10.1604/9780553380491 UK Release Date 2003-07-01 AU Release Date 2003-07-01 NZ Release Date 2003-07-01 US Release Date 2003-07-01 Illustrator Diane Dillon Birth 1930 Affiliation University of Wisconsin-Madison Position Former senior instructor and associate head, English (deceased) Qualifications Ph.D. Publisher Random House USA Inc Publication Date 2003-07-01 DEWEY 616.0472 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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