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Forever painless : lasting relief through gentle movement / Miranda Esmonde-White.

by Esmonde-White, Miranda.

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Random House Canada, 2016.

Chronic pain -- Exercise therapy.

Chronic pain -- Alternative treatment.

9780345816634 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Painless : lasting relief through gentle movement

xvi, 301 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The Canadian fitness guru and author of Aging Backwards presents a revolutionary way to cure chronic pain with movement. "Our bodies are designed to be pain-free through our lives," says Miranda Esmonde-White, "but to achieve that, we have to move." A new understanding of how chronic pain begins when our muscles become unbalanced and cause connective tissue problems. Daily habits and accidents or injuries create imbalance, and we compensate by favouring our weaker part, leading to strain on our feet, ankles, knees, hips, shoulders, upper back, lower back, elbows, wrists or neck - and eventually such conditions as arthritis, chronic back pain, plantar fasciitis and fibromyalgia. Hips and knees are especially problematic: surgeons often tell those with chronic hip or knee pain to tough it out and come back in two or three years when the damage is sufficiently severe that only a joint replacement will do. A guide to preventing and reversing imbalances so you can live a pain-free life. A new way of looking at your body, with neurological and physiological explanations of the causes of most chronic pain and simple exercises to become free of pain and regain mobility. "It's time to change our relationship with chronic pain," Esmonde-White writes. "The solution is right under our noses, it's free, and it doesn't require drugs or surgery: it's gentle rebalancing exercises." Miranda Esmonde-White is best known for her PBS Television fitness series Classical Stretch. A classically trained ballerina, she created the Essentrics technique, which uses low-intensity strengthening and stretching exercises to relieve pain, prevent injury and slenderize and tone the body. She lives in Montreal"--Provided by publisher.

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