The Healthy Back Exercise Book

The Healthy Knees Book details the structure and function of the knee and explains its common injuries and chronic pains. With her holistic approach to healing, Dr. Pujari examines how the whole mind and body can promote balance and healing in your hard-working knees, while co-author Alton culls information from medical specialists, physical therapists, yoga and fitness instructors, nutritionists, and herbalists.

In this in-depth exercise guide, a leading chiropractor demonstrates how to help alleviate back pain, prevent injury, and develop a stronger back. Healthy Back Anatomy features a range of exercises that help strengthen and stabilize the muscles of your back. Each move includes step-by-step instructions, plus full-color photos and anatomical illustrations that demonstrate how your muscles work. You'll see what muscles you're targeting and learn how to avoid injuring them. Dr. Philip Striano also provides modifications to increase the challenge as your back strength develops. His complete program includes stretches, balance and posture exercises, and lower back, neck, shoulder, and core exercises, as well as warm-ups and cool-downs.

Understanding our backs, and how to properly exercise them.

Written by a renowned back expert, this instructive book provides practical tips to alleviate and prevent back pain. It also offers specially-commissioned artwork illustrating therapists in action, back massage, and relaxation techniques. Full color.

Offering a guide to attaining and sustaining a healthy back and body, this book contains a programme of exercises which are graded with the aim of suiting everyone from the current sufferer to those wishing to maintain a strong and healthy back. It explains the skeletal structure of the human body and outlines the principal causes of back problems, as well as providing advice on acquiring good posture and healthy-lifestyle habits.

The book tells the story of how we never evolved to exercise - to do voluntary physical activity for the sake of health. Using his own research and experiences throughout the world, the author recounts how and why humans evolved to walk, run, dig, and do other necessary and rewarding physical activities while avoiding needless exertion. Drawing on insights from biology and anthropology, the author suggests how we can make exercise more enjoyable, rather that shaming and blaming people for avoiding it