Overcome neck & back pain / Kit Laughlin
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- 2974614
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- Author:
- Laughlin, Kit, 1953-
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- Edition:
- 1st Fireside ed.
- Description:
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- New York : Simon & Schuster, 1998
- vi, 200 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0684852527
- Full contents:
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- Preface
- Why The Interest In Neck And Back Pain?
- What is this book about?
- What can I do?
- Who should use this book?
- How this book is set out
- Cautions
- Introduction
- Background To The Approach
- Shoshin Center
- Case studies from the clinic
- Posture & Flexibility at the Australian National University
- Contact address and e-mail
- Chapter One
- Self-Diagnosis
- What is covered in this chapter?
- Pelvic obliquity
- How to determine if you have one hip lower than the other
- i) one hip is lifted higher than the other
- ii) both hips are lifted by the test, but one higher than the other
- iii) both hips are lifted about the same
- The heel insert
- How thick should the insert be?
- What if I make a mistake?
- Other indicators of pelvic obliquity
- How to determine whether muscular causes of problems like sciatica are present
- How to determine your patterns of muscular tension
- Flow Chart For Testing Muscle Imbalances
- Test And Exercise Check List
- How often should I stretch?
- The general principles of good stretching, at a glance:
- Chapter Two
- Rehabilitation Stretching Exercises
- Limits
- Static stretching
- Ballistic stretching
- The Posture & Flexibility approach to stretching
- How to breathe
- Benefits of warmth
- Why photographs?
- Rehabilitation
- Lower Back Exercises
- 1. Seated forward bend
- 2. Seated side bend and rotation
- 3. Lying rotation
- 4. Partner-assisted lying rotation
- 5. Buttock and hip flexor
- 6. Seated hip
- 7. Lying hip
- 8. Table-top hip
- 9. Hip flexors
- 10. Trunk side bending
- 11. Hamstrings
- Middle Back Exercises
- 12. Seated rotation
- 13. Upper back on all fours
- 14. Middle and upper back
- Neck Exercises
- 15. Partner shoulder depress
- 16. Chin to chest
- 17. Neck side bend
- 18. Neck forward and side bend
- 19. Neck backward and side bend
- 20. Neck rotation
- 21. Chin-to-chest variations
- Chapter Three
- Prevention
- 22. Advanced forward bend
- 23. Advanced forward and side bend
- 24. Advanced rotation
- 25. Advanced buttock and hip flexors
- 26. External hip rotator (piriformis)
- 27. Front thigh (quadriceps)
- 28. Backward bend over support
- 29. Backward bend from floor
- 30. Standing calf
- 31. Standing side bend
- 32. Lying side bend
- 33. Middle and upper back backward bend
- Strengthening Exercises
- Matching training to expected demand
- 34. Abdominal curl
- 35. Abdominal curl over support
- 36. Back uncurl
- 37. Trunk rotation
- 38. Trunk rotation with weight
- Advanced Strengthening Exercise (Prevention)
- 39. Knee lift
- Planning A Total Routine
- Frequency of exercise
- Sets and reps
- Working habits
- Speed of movements
- The importance of rest
- The place of aerobic exercise
- Lifting things in everyday life
- The daily six
- For low back pain
- For middle back pain
- For upper back and neck pain
- For wbole-body suppleness
- Pointers to chapter four, causes, and chapter five, relaxation techniques
- Chapter Four
- The Causes Of Neck And Back Pain
- Why do we suffer back pain?
- Chiropractic and osteopathy
- Oriental medicine
- Acute pain
- Chronic pain
- Muscle tension as cause
- Other factors contributing to neck and back pain
- What is good posture?
- Tests of leg-length inequality
- What effects can uneven hips have on the body?
- How thick should my heel lift be?
- Is right- or left-handedness related to the problem?
- Adding another layer to the argument
- Shortcomings with the idea of cause
- Workshop experiences
- Choice of bed
- Chapter Five
- Relaxation Techniques
- Practical Stress Management seminars
- Why relax?
- Relaxation method
- Guided visualization and healing the body
- A script for relaxation and visualization
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Further reading (annotated)
- Quick Reference
- Illustrations
- Heel insert
- Where am I sore?
- The Contract-Relax (C-R) approach to stretching
- Muscles stretched in exercise 1
- Right hip in the intermediate position showing stretched muscles in exercise 5
- Three ways the sciatic nerve may exit the pelvis
- Psoas, iliacus (iliopsoas), and quadratus lumborum
- Exaggerated lumbar curve caused by tight iliopsoas
- Schematic showing quadratus lumborum, as stretched in exercise 10
- Hamstring muscle from side; biceps femoris
- The three hamstring muscles
- Levator scapulae, and detail of suboccipitals
- Front and side neck muscles
- Possible entrapment of nerves by scalene muscles
- Muscles of the front and inside of the leg
- Muscles of the lower leg
- Sciatic nerve runs down back of leg
- Schematic of hip muscles affected in exercise 31
- Upper body muscles, and changes accompanying aging
- Why the conventional situp can injure the lower back
- Class II lever
- Exercise 36 strengthens the trunk in the necessary range of movement
- Correct form in exercise 37
- One theory of back weakness
- The three curves of the spinal column act as a shock absorber
- Schematic of spine, vertebral bodies and disc
- Posterolateral (back-side) extrusion of intervertebral disc impinging on nerve root
- Schematic showing significance of leg-length difference
- Schematic of good posture
- Effects of pelvic obliquity on the shape of spine
- Simple model of possible effects of leg-length difference
- Schematic of rowing
- As leg extends, hip joint ligaments tighten around neck of femur.
- Notes:
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- "A Fireside book."
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-199) and index.
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