| Relief Is in the Stretch: End Back Pain Through Yoga Contributor(s): Fishman, Loren (Author), Ardman, Carol (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393058336 ISBN-13: 9780393058338 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $23.36 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2005 Annotation: This illustrated guide is the first to distinguish the nine common causes of low back pain, to teach readers how to identify them, and to describe appropriate yoga poses to relieve each one of them. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Health & Fitness | Yoga - Health & Fitness | Pain Management - Health & Fitness | Exercise - General |
| Dewey: 617.564 |
| LCCN: 2004025223 |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 7.3" W x 9.46" (1.07 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Dr. Loren M. Fishman, a specialist in rehabilitation medicine who has been using yoga in his medical practice for thirty years, studied yoga in India for a year with B. K. S. Iyengar and is an internationally recognized expert in research and clinical treatment of sciatica and low back pain. This book helps you determine how to start your own yoga practice or alter your existing practice, depending on the severity and chronicity of your pain, and on your physical condition. The postures in this guide, each one illustrated by a photograph, target specific sources of pain--from arthritis to spinal stenosis, from pregnancy to sacroiliac joint derangement--and demonstrate how you can manage, reduce, and ultimately end your pain. |
Contributor Bio(s): Fishman, Loren: - Loren Fishman, MD, is a physiatrist and a professor at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. He lives in New York City.Ardman, Carol: - Carol Ardman is a writer. She lives in New York City. |