Heal Your Hips

The first comprehensive guide to hip health Avoid injury, prevent deterioration, work out in water and on land, and understand the entire range of surgical options Once considered a natural consequence of aging, hip disorders can be reduced or eliminated altogether by innovative exercise regimens. Heal Your Hips explores an unprecedented range of preventive options you can take today to avoid hip injury and improve your hip health--including wonderful water and land exercises and intensive stretching. Numerous illustrations help you understand the structure and function of your hips, and dozens of photographs clearly demonstrate how to do the exercises. If indeed hip surgery is in your future, Heal Your Hips provides vital new information on several little-known, minimally invasive forms of surgery as well as straightforward coverage of traditional "replacement" surgery. You'll learn what to expect with hip surgery--from preparing for the procedure to the day of the operation to returning home and recovering with physical therapy. The practical and long-overdue guidance in Heal Your Hips will be a revelation for the millions enduring the pain of hip deterioration and injury. Whether you or your loved ones are considering hip surgery or have yet to seek medical help, turn first to the indispensable expertise in this optimistic and accessible resource.

The first comprehensive guide to hip health—avoid injury, prevent deterioration, work out in water and on land, and understand the entire range of surgical options. Once considered a natural consequence of aging, hip disorders can be reduced or eliminated altogether by innovative exercise regimens. Heal Your Hips explores an unprecedented range of preventive options you can take today to avoid hip injury and improve your hip health—including wonderful water and land exercises and intensive stretching. Numerous photos help you understand the structure and function of your hips, and dozens of photographs clearly demonstrate how to do the exercises. If indeed hip surgery is in your future, Heal Your Hips provides vital new information on several little-known, minimally invasive forms of surgery as well as straightforward coverage of traditional ""replacement"" surgery. You'll learn what to expect with hip surgery--from preparing for the procedure to the day of the operation to returning home and recovering with physical therapy. The practical and long-overdue guidance in Heal Your Hips will be a revelation for the millions enduring the pain of hip deterioration and injury. Whether you or your loved ones are considering hip surgery or have yet to seek medical help, turn first to the indispensable expertise in this optimistic and accessible resource. This new edition will have all new instructional photos throughout the book. New chapters and content offer even more resources for those wanting to strengthen and heal their hips.

Put an end to knee pain! An esteemed surgeon and a water therapy expert team up to tell you the essentials about your knees, how to get them back into shape, and how to prevent further pain and injury. Through careful explanation, they examine each part of the healing process—from basic function to long-term exercises—guiding you to a pain-free life. With detailed information on a variety of healing options, you will learn how to make the right decisions for your knees, understand when and why surgery is appropriate, and how simple exercise in your living room and in the pool can speed the post-surgical healing process.

With easy-to-do stretches for increased flexibility and carefully designed weight training for increased strength, the "Healthy Hip Handbook" includes everything needed to turn a painful hip into a sturdy and strong joint capable of conquering the daily rigors of work and play.

Hip surgery, including total hip replacement, has become a staple of the medical system. Patients assume the surgery is normal and routine, and that this miracle of modern technology will let them get back to their lives without the chronic hip pain that has dogged them, sometimes for years. In Save Your Hips noted researcher Christine Kent tears the veil off the multi-billion dollar hip surgery industry. Drawing from the medical system's own research, Kent exposes the fact that assumptions on which these very sophisticated surgeries are based have never been scientifically validated. Yet hundreds of thousands of these surgeries are being performed every year in the US alone, far too often leaving patients irreparably damaged. She reveals procedures that surgeons have developed to correct "congenital deformities" with no evidence that the conditions are either congenital or deformities. The vast majority of these surgeries are being done on women. In her previous book, Saving the Whole Woman, and her work with thousands of women around the world, Christine Kent has demonstrated the importance of natural spinal curvature on the pelvic organ support system. Save Your Hips proves conclusively that natural spinal configuration, not surgery, is the ultimate solution to chronic hip pain.

In Tight Hip, Twisted Core you will: Discover how this muscle impacts your body from head to toe Determine if you are one of the millions of people with a tight iliacus muscle and why Release the tension in the muscle for good Get your body aligned for pain-free performance Prevent this muscle from getting tight ever again