Release Your Pain

Expert Discussion Recovery and Regeneration
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Here is something I ran across-

http://www.releaseyourbody.com/release_your_pain.htm

Resolving Repetitive Strain Injuries with Active Release Techniques® (ART®). This informative, easy-to-read book, helps you to understand the true cause of repetitive strain injuries. Understand the true cause of your pain, learn how it can be resolved, then use the specially designed exercises included in this book to prevent its reoccurrence.

Did you know?

That Repetitive Strain Injuries (RSI), caused by cumulative trauma, has become the most prevalent cause of injuries in today’s workforce. Today, RSIs are among the most misunderstood, misdiagnosed, and most poorly treated conditions.

Do you want to know what works…and what doesn’t?

Did you know that many common therapies (such as medication, physiotherapy, chiropractic treatment, massage, electrical muscle stimulation, rest, exercise, and surgery) have all failed to effectively resolve repetitive strain injuries. RSI sufferers are rarely able to find effective or complete treatment with these traditional treatments! Read Release Your Pain now to understand why these treatments often fail to solve your problem.

But there is hope!

A revolutionary treatment, Active Release Techniques® (ART)®, has been proven to be extremely successful in treating RSIs, consistently, effectively, and quickly. Many long-standing RSI conditions have seen complete resolution with just 6 to 8 ART treatments! Read Release Your Pain and see you can resolve your long-standing repetitive strain injuries.

How can this be…you ask!

First you need to understand the true cause of these RSI. Release Your Pain describes, in an easy-to-read manner, exactly how these problems occur, and describes the muscles, nerves, and soft-tissues that are commonly involved. Take a look at the many illustrations to better understand just which soft-tissue structures are affected in many of these common problems.

How can you help yourself?

Take control of your pain…read this book! Understand the real cause of your RSI or soft-tissue injury! Understand what works….and what doesn’t! Then get proactive, discuss this treatment method with your health care, find a practitioner who can really help you practitioner (we tell you how and where), and use the special exercises at the end of each chapter to keep these conditions from re-occurring.

Release Your Pain is:
informative,
descriptive,
graphical,
easy-to-read,
non-technical,
written for you – the reader!

Release Your Pain provides:
Great diagrams that help you to visualize your affected muscles and soft tissues!
Easy-to-understand explanations about the real causes of RSI.
Effective solutions to discuss with your health-care
practitioner
Fantastic preventative exercises – so you can help
yourself!

Order your copy today, and take a pro-active step towards resolving your soft-tissue injury!

What…you want more information about how Active Release Techniques can help you?

Check out our award-winning websites at www.drabelson.com and www.activerelease.ca. Download the many free articles and information so that you can better understand the real causes of your problems.

“If you have a soft-tissue problem, then read this book, and don’t be satisfied with anything but the real solution”

Dr. P. Michael Leahy, DC, CCSP

About the author-

Dr. Brian Abelson DC is an ART instructor, a highly skilled ART practitioner, who has completed advanced training in all levels of ART including the advanced ART Biomechanics and EPN certification programs.

He graduated from Palmer College of Chiropractic with an award for Clinical Excellence and is the clinical director of Edgemont Chiropractic Soft Tissue Management Systems.

He has published numerous well-received articles in professional and popular magazines, and is the author of the award-winning websites www.drabelson.com and www.activerelease.ca.

Order Info-

http://www.releaseyourbody.com/category_1.htm

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Tom,
Have you read this book? Is there more to it than just a brochure for ART? What about the self stretches and exercises?

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I was on the www.activereleasetechniques.com site looking for a provider in the Omaha, Nebraska area and ran across the link on the book.

No, I have not seen or read the book- was just passing the info along.

When I do get the chance to look at the book I’ll let the group know what I think of it.

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I went ahead and ordered a copy myself. I’m interested in the stretches and exercises. If I don’t like it, I’ll just return it. I’ll let you know what I think.

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I’ve had a chance to read through most of the book. For the most parts, it’s good. Yes, the book is largely a bochure for ART, and no, you will not learn ART from it. However, there is some good information in it regarding the biomechanics and etiology behind specific soft tissue problems. There are also some neat stretches for the upper body, which I’ll describe below to save you the cost of the book if that’s all you’re interested in.

  1. Wrist flexor stretches: these are actually shown on the book’s web site http://www.releaseyourbody.com/images_templ/ryp_exercisesample.pdf

  2. Wrist extensor stretch: also called the golfer’s stretch, cross you hands in front of your body (arms pointing down) with the palms facing outward and interlock the fingers. Use the top hand to pull back on the other hand, which will stretch the extensor muscles in the forearm as well as some of the elbow flexors.

  3. Tricep/shoulder stretch: Stand sideways to a wall about a foot from the wall and place the hand closest to the wall behind your head with the elbow resting on the wall. Cross the foot closest to the wall behind the other foot. In this starting position, you should look like you’re just leaning against the wall trying to look casual. Now slide the elbow up the wall as you lean closer until the forearm is behind the head and the tricep is resting against the wall. This stretched position hits the triceps, teres minor and major, subscapularis and lateral fascial plane. Play with the angles.

  4. Scalenes stretch: hands down my favorite. These little bastards don’t get enough attention considering how much they affect the whole upper body. They’re the little muscles on the side of your neck, in the triangular groove between your clavicle and traps. They contract everytime you hold your breath, which means they become tight everytime you lift something heavy. I recommend doing some trigger point work on them before stretching them. Just reach your fingers into the groove on the side of your neck and press inward. They usually feel grissley and they’ll almost certainly hurt like hell if you press hard. In fact, if you apply significant pressure to the scalenes, you’ll feel tugging on muscles throughout your entire upper body, especially between the shoulder blades. I recommend doing this trigger point work before and after every weight training workout, simply because it releases so much tension in the upper body. For more information about the scalenes, refer to Claire Davies’ book The Trigger Point Workbook, which I highly recommend. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1572243759/qid=1103663624/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-7539655-3329658?v=glance&s=books

    To do the stretch, stand sideways to a wall and extend your arm with the palm of the hand pressing against the wall with the fingers pointing down. This starting position is quite a stretch in and of itself. Now sublty lean the body away from the wall and turn the head slightly down and to the outside, as if you were looking into the breast pocket of a shirt.