Outsmarting Low Back Pain
A Revolutionary New Approach to Solving Lower Back Pain
Tired of being in pain or limiting your activities? Learn to take charge of your lower back with Outsmarting Low Back Pain; a simple and innovative self-guided video exercise program!
Created by a physical therapist and back pain survivor, this groundbreaking program is a comprehensive yet simple, step-by-step guide to solving your low back pain:
- Acquire key strength and flexibility skills
- Learn which movements strain your back and which make your back feel good
- Gain the concepts of core stability in posture, bending, walking, pushing, pulling, twisting, lifting, and much more
- Feel better soon after beginning your practice
Featuring 24 gentle exercise/movement sessions averaging only 15-30 minutes each, all thoroughly demonstrated on over six hours of high quality digital video.
Get started today with this award winning step-by-step multi-media video program and companion book.
Integrated Patterns of Movement Multimedia Program
Exercise Implications & Rehab Opportunities
While a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is worth a thousand pictures. This 6-hour multi-media program is a combination of written text and high-quality demonstrative video. It addresses our role as movement teachers in a rehabilitation setting and how patient outcomes improve using a therapeutic movement model. This comprehensive yet simple guided tour of human movement will inspire you to learn more. Topics covered include:
- The role of rehab professionals in movement optimization—why we should be taking on the role of movement teachers or coaches, not just body mechanics.
- How bodies are integrated and move in cooperative patterns—that a new ‘regional interdependence’ understanding of movement is emerging.
- Language that describes these relationships needs to be developed and assimilated—so we can identify and name ‘patterns at fault’, then develop exercise that trains individual-specific ‘corrective patterns’.
- The four principles of optimal movement—what are our guidelines when it comes to identifying the sub optimal movement or postural patterns that cause or contribute to musculoskeletal distress or inefficiencies.
- The differences between ‘static integration’ and ‘dynamic integration’ views of how the body works—this program articulates the drawbacks of our current static view and advocates for a more dynamic understanding.
- How to utilize these optimal movement and dynamic integration principles when working with various musculoskeletal complaints—examples from each of the four-major body sub-regions are described and shown.
- Where the inspiration for dynamic integration exercise comes from—why we might consider using them and how we might modify them to fit our rehab populations.
- How we can use certain techniques or tricks of the trade to make our exercise ‘stick’—that we can borrow ideas from motor control theory, the specificity principle and the transfer principle to make our exercise more informational.
If you’re ready to dig in, let’s get started!
A Manual Therapist's Guide to Movement Book & CD Collection
Teaching Motor Skills to the Orthopedic Patient
A Manual Therapist's Guide to Movement examines the use of non-traditional movement systems in a physical therapy setting, focusing on orthopedic conditions or injuries. Browne derives much of the content of this book from two sophisticated movement systems: the Feldenkrais Method and the Chinese martial art of Tai Chi. He explores the intersection between movement and medicine and explains some of the potential applications of these methods to orthopedic conditions in a language understandable to physical therapists and others with a medical, rather than a movement, background.
The unique style of this approach features reader participation in a series of movement lessons. These lessons start in chapter three and include a written verbal description, picture sequences to illustrate each movement variation and a breakdown and discussion of the lesson afterward. These discussions include applications to a clinical setting, links to other similar lessons and descriptions of some possible variations of that lesson. In short, the reader experiences the movement subjectively then reads about the design of that particular lesson and for whom it might be useful.
The book provides a backstage guided tour of movement disciplines that have tremendous potential for adaptation to the physical therapy setting and will be of specific use to physical therapists working with orthopedic patients, as well as manual therapists, physiatrists, Feldenkrais Practitioners, osteopaths, chiropractors, and medical specialists with an interest in the spine. The accompanying audio collection, recorded on high quality audio/CDs, features all 36 exercise/movement lessons from the book of A Manual Therapist's Guide to Movement, averaging about 25 minutes each. This engaging collection allows you to stay focused while easily participating in each movement lesson.
A Manual Therapist's Guide to Movement CD Collection Only
Teaching Motor Skills to the Orthopedic Patient
This collection, recorded on high quality audio/CDs, features all 36 exercise/movement lessons from the book of A Manual Therapist's Guide to Movement, averaging about 25 minutes each. This engaging collection is a highly recommended accompaniment to the book as it allows you to stay focused while easily participating in each movement lesson.
A Manual Therapist's Guide to Movement Book
Teaching Motor Skills to the Orthopedic Patient
A Manual Therapist's Guide to Movement examines the use of non-traditional movement systems in a physical therapy setting, focusing on orthopedic conditions or injuries. Browne derives much of the content of this book from two sophisticated movement systems: the Feldenkrais Method and the Chinese martial art of Tai Chi. He explores the intersection between movement and medicine and explains some of the potential applications of these methods to orthopedic conditions in a language understandable to physical therapists and others with a medical, rather than a movement, background.
The unique style of this approach features reader participation in a series of movement lessons. These lessons start in chapter three and include a written verbal description, picture sequences to illustrate each movement variation and a breakdown and discussion of the lesson afterward. These discussions include applications to a clinical setting, links to other similar lessons and descriptions of some possible variations of that lesson. In short, the reader experiences the movement subjectively then reads about the design of that particular lesson and for whom it might be useful.
This book provides a backstage guided tour of movement disciplines that have tremendous potential for adaptation to the physical therapy setting and will be of specific use to physical therapists working with orthopedic patients, as well as manual therapists, physiatrists, Feldenkrais Practitioners, osteopaths, chiropractors, and medical specialists with an interest in the spine.