WALK YOURSELF WELL: ELIMINATE BACK PAIN, NECK, SHOULDER, KNEE, HIP AND OTHER STRUCTURAL PAIN FOREVER-WITHOUT SURGERY OR DRUGS
Walk Yourself Well: Eliminate Back Pain, Neck, Shoulder, Knee, Hip as great as Other Structural Pain Forever-Without Surgery or Drugs
Learn the many appropriate approach to walk. Sherry Brourman, P.T., E-RYT, teaches we how to travel yourself well, regulating her candid as great as innovative methods for balancing the body, as great as expelling pain. With the comprehensive, easy to assimilate self-evaluation, as great as with pictures stretching, strengthening as great as on foot exercises, we can sense how to discharge neck pain, behind pain, hip pain, leg pain, knee pang as great as all sorts of constructional pain, naturally, though operation or drugs.Given the outlandish inlet of so many bodywork practices, readers will be astounded to sense which they can urge their illness as great as contentment with something as elementary as walking. But that’s only what Los Angeles earthy therapist Brourman asserts here. Walking isn’t only the great earthy as great as pondering exercise, she points out, it’s the earthy wake up we do many often. And only as imbalance, bad viewpoint as great as untoned muscles can lead to unpleasant injuries, editing the approach we travel as great as strengthening as great as stretching your muscles can speed your liberation or forestall we from removing harm in the initial place. Because Brourman doesn’t have the oppulance of saying each reader personally, the great understanding of the book is clinging to diagnosing as great as elucidate particular speed problems–something which can be done, she says, since the standards of tellurian balance have been the same for everyone. “The law is which height, weight, proportions, age, sex, as great as all alternative tellurian facilities as great as options do not shift the simple elements of the exquisite walk,” she writes. The instructions have been pretty easy to follow (although the little readers might be nonplussed by the usual experience–when we begin meditative about how we should be we do something we do each day, we begin to “forget” how we did it in the initial place). Those who have been pang from pang in such places as the behind as great as the knees might be many encouraged to follow Brourman’s instructions, though she creates it transparent which only about everybody can great from the great walk.
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Wendy Brown
on August 6th, 2010
Review by Wendy Brown for Walk Yourself Well: Eliminate Back Pain, Neck, Shoulder, Knee, Hip and Other Structural Pain Forever-Without Surgery or Drugs
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I have spent the last five years in agony with a bad ankle. For some strange reason that I didn’t understand at that time,(and neither did the two surgeons, one rhematologist, two podiatrists, four physical therapists and countless er docs with whom I consulted over the last thirty years), as I was doing my regular areobic work, I totally ruptured the peroneal longus tendon in my right foot. Two surgeries later I was left with a chronically swollen ankle. I had lost the tendon and the peroneal nerve. I had total ankle reconstruction and had my heel bone moved over so my ankle would be more stable. It wasn’t. Fast forward three years. The pain had increased and moved up into my back and hips. It was horrible. I couldn’t sleep. My foot doc said, you will have to learn to live with it. I had an MRI. I had bulging discs in L1-2, 2-3 and 3-4. The 2-3 was pressing on the spinal cord. I was losing feeling and strength in my hips and legs despite doing all the weight lifting and cardio I could handle, about 90 minutes a day x 6 days a week.
I researched why this would happen. I had a gradual onset of the back issue and couldn’t remember a specific incidence of over doing or strain. The title of this book popped up in reply to an internet search I did on the L2-3 disk bulge, so I ordered it. I had gone to see an osteopath for help with the back issue and was in physical therapy for it. My pt noticed that during exercises my ankle bowed out. She said, “That’s the problem.” I went home to find this book had come. I read it in two days and immediately began to do the work recommended. I took the book to the osteopath who agreed with the pt. That was about two weeks ago. I am now totally pain free for the first time in five years, and without pain meds. Not only are my right ankle, leg, hips and back good, but my left shoulder which also hurt most of the time no longer hurts. It seems that due to my gait my ankles roll to the outside with every step. This resulted in atrophied ankle muscles, which meant more weakness. Finally my tendon blew. And then my spine. Thanks to the information this author presents in a humorous fashion I have finally accepted the cause for my problems and am working on relearning to walk. It isn’t all that easy, but then it isn’t impossible either, given the other choice. A number of members of my family have the same gait pattern. My father and older brother have both had horrific ankle problems, no one knew why. They both have had back surgery, and both have lost the L2-3 disc. Again, no one knew why. I have two sons in their twenties who walk like me and who have had ankle problems and back pain since their late teens. I am buying copies of this book for them. Using this book could be difficult for those without an open mind. The author’s use of humour and stories of her patients helped me to recognize and accept my problem. I think we sometimes take life way too seriously, and that makes pain worse. I am so grateful for this book. I can’t begin to say what value being pain free is for me. It is as though I have my life back! That said, I will admit that this information is not a panacea. I don’t think it will cure asthma or aids. But, for structural problems and joint issues like mine, this information, and hard work, will be the answer. I am still in therapy and will be for a while. I expect that lasting results will not happen without sustained effort at relearning patterns of movement over a long period, probably the rest of my life. But it will be SO worth it!
Anonymous
on August 6th, 2010
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I applaud the author for blazing this trail to “structurally sound walking principles”! She explains in detail how to diagnose your faulty gait, which strengthening and stretching exercises (with illus.) will correct your particular weakness, and offers a simple example how to chart your progress. I appreciated the text inside boxes providing more technical explanations concerning specific muscles… I was able to correct a few structural postures immediately, and I’m very glad to be aware of these principles, especially since I’m into fitness walking. Now I have information which is attending to those nagging knee, hip, and back pains.
dskit@earthlink.net
on August 6th, 2010
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A truly novel approach to physical problems, the author ties all nagging injuries and pain (neck, back, knee, etc.) to how one walks. By changing ones walking pattern, many chronic problems can dissappear! Reading this book was a signiffgant breakthrough in my own physical rehabilitation. After years of abusing myself playing rugby, I was a mess! The author opened my eyes to the world of correct movment patterns. This book is mainly to be used as a manual to set up your own rehabilition program. To do it correctly, you have to be prepared to do alot of work, and not be afraid of feeling awkward and challenging your assumptions. But it does work! After just reading the first part of the book, you will never be able to look at people walking the same way again.
Anonymous
on August 6th, 2010
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“Walk Yourself Well” is one of the few books which actually changed my life. A ground-breaking approach to perfect and healthful posture and gait, Ms. Brourman’s thorough, clear instructions helped me change my walk and posture to “elegant” and freed me from persistent knee and neck pain.This book is perfect for boomers who want to avoid those horrors of aging – the dowager’s hump, the old folks’ shuffle, and back, neck, shoulder, foot, and knee pain – and surgery.It’s never too early, or too late, to enjoy the benefits of Miss Brourman’s 25 years of experience as a physical therapist. I predict that “Walk Yourself Well” will become a classic in its field.
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on August 6th, 2010
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By following the principles in this book, I’m quite sure I have minimized the pain and discomfort of two leg injuries within a year, both requiring a cast – broken ankle requiring surgery and hairline knee fracture, as well as an arthritic hip, all on the same leg. Although I found the technical explanations tough going, I believe I distilled the essence of the instruction into a brand new, better way to walk. I walk my dog twice a day so I slowly incorporated one aspect at a time into changing my walk. There is no doubt that my leg muscles are stronger as a result of my redesigned walk. The book leaves no stone unturned with respect to its topic, so I am quite thankful that I discovered this A to Z instructional reference book.