Product Description: Healing Back Pain promises permanent elimination of back pain without drugs, surgery, or exercise. It should have been titled Understanding TMS Pain, because it discusses one particular cause of back pain--Tension Myositis Syndrome (TMS)--and isn't really a program for self-treatment, with only five pages of action plan (and many more pages telling why conventional methods don't work). According to John E. Sarno, M.D., TMS is the major cause of pain in the back, neck, shoulders, buttocks, and limbs--and it is caused not by structural abnormalities but by the mind's effort to repress emotions.

• Paperback: 193 pages
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (February 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446392308
• ISBN-13: 978-0446392303
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: based on 322 reviews.
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Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection (Paperback)

Product Description: 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.

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Bantam (February 29, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553379887
• ISBN-13: 978-0553379884
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: based on 130 reviews.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #467 in Books

Leave the old static stretches, muscle tightness, and movement restrictions behind. Stretch to Win presents a complete flexibility training system--a proven winner for today’s athlete. This is the new way to both loosen up and perform your best.

Learn the dynamic exercise techniques that most closely represent the movements and loads that will be required of your body on the court, field, course, track, or mat or in the water. After you complete a simple self-evaluation, a special science-based stretching matrix enables you to tailor a program specifically for your body, your sport, your position, or your event.

• Paperback: 250 pages
• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers; 1 edition (June 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0736055290
• ISBN-13: 978-0736055291
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
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Stretch to Win (Paperback)

Product Description: The third edition of Facilitated Stretching is now revised, reorganized, and packaged with a DVD--surpassing its popular predecessor as the best source for the latest PNF (proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation) stretching techniques.

Facilitated Stretching, Third Edition, provides a useful overview of PNF stretching--a safe and easy-to-use method that involves stretching the muscle, contracting it isometrically against resistance, then stretching it again to a new range of motion. These steps apply whether you are isolating one muscle at a time or using the spiral-diagonal patterns of PNF to stretch groups of muscles simultaneously. The third edition contains all the great features of the previous edition, plus the following:

• A companion DVD that demonstrates live stretching techniques from the book for a clearer understanding

• New stretching routines for a variety of popular activities including running, golf, swimming, cycling, and throwing and racket sports

• General stretches and stretches for older participants

• Stretching activities with added strength work using stability balls and elastic bands
• Stretching and strengthening tips for dealing with--and even preventing--common soft-tissue injuries

• Paperback: 183 pages
• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers; 3 Pap/DVD edition (February 28, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0736062483
• ISBN-13: 978-0736062480
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
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Facilitated Stretching (Paperback)

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Alpha; Ill edition (November 6, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592576214
• ISBN-13: 978-1592576210
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.8 x 0.6 inches
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Stretching Illustrated (Complete Idiot's Guide to) (Paperback)