Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Recover from injuries and put a stop to pain with this step-by-step guide In his new book, Rebab Science, renowned orthopedic physical therapist Tom Walters shows you how to take back the power to heal. He explains how to understand and identify pain and injury, how to treat common issues to muscles, tendons, ligaments, and more, and how to end chronic pain for good.
Our current healthcare model, with its emphasis on treating symptoms rather than addressing the root cause of those symptoms, can be frustrating, especially for people with ongoing pain. Rehab Science outlines a new way of thinking about pain and injury with a movement-based system that helps you treat pain and heal from injuries on your own terms. Dr. Walters delivers proven protocols that strengthen the body, improve mobility and movement quality, alleviate pain, ensure full recovery, and keep pain and injury from reoccurring in the future.
This book highlights common issues like ankle sprains, tennis elbow, and low back pain and provides protocols for rehabilitating each one step by step and week by week. Find out what you can do to accelerate the phases of healing by using targeted movements and pain-relieving rehab exercises. Full-color photo sequences show how to do each exercise correctly.
In Rehab Science, you'll learn:
- How to identify and treat common pains and injuries
- Which exercises can prevent pain from returning
- How long you should be doing rehab exercises
- Major signs and symptoms that may require medical attention
- How a diagnosis can factor into recovery
- What common X-ray and MRI findings mean
- How to program exercises to rehab specific injuries
- When you might need to consider surgery
- And much, much more
Synopsis
Alleviate Pain. Rehabilitate Injuries. Move Better At some point in your life, you will experience pain and suffer from injury. But you are not powerless. Your body is not fragile. It is strong and adaptable. With the right education, exercise strategies, and mindset, you can figure out what's wrong and take the first steps toward healing. That is exactly what you will learn how to do in Rehab Science.
In this book, you will gain:
- A foundational understanding of pain science--and how to treat both acute and chronic pain conditions
- The ability to systematically address injuries--identify the type of injury you have and implement the right methods and exercises
- Step-by-step programs for improving movement and mobility and increasing strength and tissue capacity
- Pain-relieving and injury-healing strategies, including soft tissue massage, stretching, mobility, and resistance exercise
- The confidence and education to make informed decisions--like whether or not to get surgery
- Insight on how to prevent injuries and future flare-ups
Being armed with such knowledge removes the fear and anxiety associated with pain and injury and frees you up to take charge of your health. Because there
are solutions. Whether you have pain from unknown causes, you sustained an injury, or you have chronic pain and nothing else has worked, the protocols give you a clear blueprint to follow. Simply go to the body region where you feel pain or have an injury, choose the protocol that matches your symptoms or condition, and start following the three-phase exercise program.
This book provides over 40 programs for the most common pain and injuries in every body region:
- Low back pain
- Sprain and strains--including ankle and wrist sprains, hamstring strains, and whiplash
- Nerve pain--such as sciatica, carpal tunnel, herniated discs, and lumbar stenosis
- Tendinopathies--like tennis elbow, golfer's elbow, hip flexor, gluteal, and patellar tendinopathy
- Ligament and tendon tears--Achilles, rotator cuff, hamstring, groin, ACL, MCL, LCL, and PCL
- Shoulder and hip impingements
- Dislocations and labral tears
- Meniscus tears
- Plantar fasciitis
- Shin splints
- Arthritis--neck, knee, and hip
- And much, much more
If you want the power to get out of pain and rehab your injury--and to do as much as possible on your own--look no further than
Rehab Science.