PILATES FOR FRAGILE BACKS: RECOVERING STRENGTH & FLEXIBILITY AFTER SURGERY, INJURY, OR OTHER BACK PROBLEMS REVIEWS
Pilates for Fragile Backs: Recovering Strength & Flexibility After Surgery, Injury, or Other Back Problems
Safe Techniques to Reduce Pain, Build Strength, as well as Speed Recovery
Studies indicate which active strengthening as well as flexibility-recovery exercises can speed improving after spinal column surgery. Whether youre scheming for or improving from spinal surgery, improving from the behind injury, or only traffic with the behind which has “issues,” this book offers an in effect module to assistance we conduct pang as well as recover strength as well as mobility.
These exercises cgange normal Pilates routines to house to some extent immobilized spines, creation this slight protected as well as in effect care for your frail back. The exercises have been written to not concede the spinal fusion. Instead, they will do what Pilates exercises do beststretch, strengthen, as well as tinge the case with accurate positioning as well as movement, whilst avoiding potentially dangerous practice as well as overexertion.
“Pilates for Fragile Backs is an glorious module for people who have had spinal fusion. The elementary though in effect Pilates-based exercises will assistance tremendously in shortening pang as well as restoring mobility.” Vijay Vad, MD, partner highbrow of reconstruction disinfectant during the Weill Medical College of Cornell University as well as writer of Back Rx as well as Arthritis Rx.
“ Adhering to the module of Pilates, as described in Pilates for Fragile Backs, underneath the superintendence of the approved earthy education instructor can be the most utilitarian equates to to urge behind duty as well as soothe pain. Clearly, this is the profitable healing modality which is underutilized in todays stream pang government programs compared with spinal disorders.” Charles Birbara, MD, arch of rheumatology during Worcester City Hospital in Worcester, MA
“In my practice, we all the time stress the significance of correct spinal alignment, great viewpoint as well as the clever mid-section. Pilates for Fragile Backs highlights these points in an easy-to-follow practice module for patients pang with ongoing behind pain. we have endorsed this module to most of my patients, as well as they have been anxious with the results.” Anthony S. Rainka, DC, South County Chiropractic, Sutton, MA
“As the earthy therapist, we have been means to implement the exercises in Pilates for Fragile Backs with my clients. They have shown the rebate in pain, an alleviation in viewpoint as well as balance, increasing strength, as well as healthier flesh tone. Best of all, the module does wonders for their self-esteem.” Pam Craig-Stewart, PT, executive of reconstruction during Christopher House in Worcester, MA
“This book is the most indispensable work of adore which offers transparent as well as beneficial recommendation for any one who has ever lived with ongoing behind pain. The spinal column problems addressed in this book have been really severe ones for doctors as well as therapists alike, as well as the authors make use of their initial palm knowledge with spinal mishap to mangle brand new belligerent for practice therapy. A privately mutated Pilates module in truth offers the probability of joy as well as service for the mostly under-served organisation in the society.” Ellen Kiley, RYT, healing yoga practitioner specializing in scoliosis as well as spinal alloy
“I underwent an anterior/posterior alloy (L4-S1) over the year ago due to degenerative hoop mildew with annular tears. Since then, Pilates has finished wonders for me. we proposed posterior simple lumbar stabilization pad work the integrate of months following surgery. we had urged my neurosurgeon to concede me to proceed earlier than common since Id had the large enlarge in pain. My earthy therapist felt it had to do with the rigidity which starts to set in as the weeks go by but stretching as well as exercising. we had each certainty which Pilates would urge my incident as well as we swear by it! I’ve been behind to work full-time. we am additionally on foot about 4 miles, 3 days the week! Im certain Pilates for Fragile Backs will be the vital assistance to most others.” Diana Stahl, Cincinnati, OH
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Pamela D. Blair
on July 15th, 2010
Review by Pamela D. Blair for Pilates for Fragile Backs: Recovering Strength & Flexibility After Surgery, Injury, or Other Back Problems
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I can’t thank you enough for writing this book. As a 58 year old woman with chronic back issues from scoliosis, degenerative spine disease and three herniated disks, I was going crazy from the pain and 3 seconds away from calling a surgeon when I found your book. The book encouraged me to take it slow and gave me great ideas for not hurting myself. After awhile I decided to get a trainer. When I showed it to her she was grateful to have such a wonderful resource to recommend to her clients. I highly recommend this book if you are at all afraid of hurting yourself. I am pain free for the first time in 20 years! Pamela D. Blair, Author The Next Fifty Years: A Guide for Women at Mid-Life And Beyond
David K. Wolpert
on July 15th, 2010
Review by David K. Wolpert for Pilates for Fragile Backs: Recovering Strength & Flexibility After Surgery, Injury, or Other Back Problems
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Pilates is a wonderful program for strengthening support muscles in the abdomen and back, improving alignment, achieving better balance and posture, reducing muscle tension, and increasing flexibility. Unfortunately, for those with back problems such as scoliosis, standard Pilates exercises may be too painful or physically challenging to follow. Pilates for Fragile Backs provides an excellent, step-by-step, comprehensive introduction to Pilates exercises that are particularly well-suited for those with spinal disorders, including those who have had spinal surgery. The book also includes valuable supplementary material, such as an overview of spinal anatomy, common back pain triggers and conservative pain remedies.
Tonesu22
on July 15th, 2010
Review by Tonesu22 for Pilates for Fragile Backs: Recovering Strength & Flexibility After Surgery, Injury, or Other Back Problems
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I had spinal fusion surgery in July 2005. Although it was highly successful, there are always issues to deal with, that most people dont understand. Some are actually unexplainable, until I read this book.For the first time, someone was actually explaining all the feelings and emotions that I have gone thru. They also offered great alternatives and tips for everyday living to improve your situation!!Another plus for me, was that it was co-written by a top surgeon in the country.For anyone that has had spinal surgery, I would HIGHLY recommend this book from start to finish!!
Bartholomew
on July 15th, 2010
Review by Bartholomew for Pilates for Fragile Backs: Recovering Strength & Flexibility After Surgery, Injury, or Other Back Problems
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I bought this book after sugery on my back and was disappointed. Yes, it did have some exercises for the lower back but a good portion of the books was devoted to exercises that you can do IF you own or are willing to go out and buy many more pilates equipment or go to classes.
This book may help some people but I had hopes to find a book for people looking to stregthen and exercise their back after surgery. I hope that someday there will be a book of safe and simple exercises targeted to low back that people can do at home without having to spend even more money to do them.
Take a look at this book before you buy it to make sure that it has the information that will help so that you don’t end up with another book gathering dust.
Elizabeth Rasche Gonzalez
on July 15th, 2010
Review by Elizabeth Rasche Gonzalez for Pilates for Fragile Backs: Recovering Strength & Flexibility After Surgery, Injury, or Other Back Problems
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This remarkable book has already generated major “buzz” in the “bad-back” community. Better yet, it is being used by some of us with truly terrible backs — complex disk problems, severe scoliosis, major iatrogenic deformities resulting from previous scoliosis corrections. If you are in any of these categories, please check out this singular new approach to physical conditioning and emotional well-being. Unlike any of the previous “bad-back” books I have surveyed — in the process of moderating a large online group for people with flatback syndrome and trying to find some kind of exercise I could do after eight fusions and revisions — the program outlined here is safe and reasonable. For that reason, it has garnered endorsements from leading spinal surgeons who would never recommend most generic bad-back programs to their fragile-backed patients. (The “fragile backs” descriptor is inspired — those of us with complex spinal problems know in the bone just how fragile we are, and just how cautious and patient we must be in initiating any exercise program.)
One reviewer criticized the book for spelling out special Pilates equipment which is necessary to do the core-strengthening exercises in the book. This is a legitimate concern for those of us on fixed disability incomes or in other limiting circumstances, but I doubt that it could stop any of the motivated people I know through my own 560-member website for people with flatback syndrome. I regard it as just another challenge, along with the many others we face every day — to name just two, locating a qualified surgeon and getting our insurance carriers to pay for the surgery s/he prescribes to make our lives livable! Having had some personal email correspondence with author Andrea Stanton — a personable and empathic human being, a psychiatric social worker by profession, and a woman whose own back-saga has some major similarities with my own — I have learned that there are all kinds of ways to minimize the expense for someone who is motivated and determined.
Moreover, the book offers more than just the equipment-requiring program. Among other things, it includes one of the clearest “lay” explanations of spinal anatomy and back mechanics I have ever read — anywhere.
Members of my own support group have been posting ever more frequently about this book, approximately one year after its publication. They report that they are sharing its thoughtfully adapated Pilates exercises–a program initially worked out by Andrea’s Pilates instructor, whose own hair-raising spinal saga is detailed in the book, along with Andrea’s — with their own exercise instructors, taking the book along with them to their “workouts,” and otherwise using it in practical ways which have brought them to new levels of personal mastery and pain relief.
A couple aspects of the book could use some work or expansion, through no fault of the authors. It is my understanding that someone at the publishing company decided at the last minute to require these “extras,” such as a list of outside resources. Given the publication schedule, there was simply not adequate time to produce any kind of comprehensive or thoroughly annotated list. The book does not suffer at all from this problem, which is hardly central to its main content: logically laid out, well-written, impeccably edited text, supplemented by equally clear photographs. The book provides a wonderful explanation of where Pilates came from and what it is all about, then goes on to explain how people with the most extreme and debilitating back problems can actually use and adapt the most crucial Pilates exercises to their own situations.
In my estimation, no other exercise, yoga, or related book on the market comes close to accomplishing what this volume accomplishes, and most contain prominent disclaimers warning scoliosis-surgery patients, for instance, to see their doctors and try something else! — either that, or they indicate clearly that they are aimed at people with mild, unoperated scoliosis, or perhaps an occasional reader who has undergone a laminectomy for some isolated disk problem, while failing to address the rest of us at all.
In short, *Pilates for Fragile Backs* is a uniquely encouraging and helpful resource for anyone with severe and complex spinal problems seeking some attainable level of physical conditioning and strengthening. There is simply nothing else like it on the market. Even if you are not prepared to embark on the prescribed program, you may well find it worthwhile to read the book simply for its excellent medical explanations and the authors’ inspiring personal stories. If you are like me, it will give you — at the very least — something that is often in short supply for people with terrible spines and incredible chronic pain: a whopping dose of hope.