The Joy Of Stress - Softcover

Hanson M.D., Peter G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0988462001 ISBN 13: 9780988462007

Publisher: StressWorks, 2012

Synopsis

Joy, associated with Stress? When we think of these two concepts, they seem to be oxymorons. But modern stress is more complex than the familiar episodes of carnage that we see on the evening news. Stress influences our children at school. Stress also affects our performance as adults, influencing our work, our play, and our relationships. Even the lack of Stress can have a negative effect on the elderly. As a medical doctor, Peter Hanson has seen how stress can affect over 90% of all illnesses, aches, and pains. He also sees a nation turning to drugs and other passive “cures”. (One of the fastest growing prescriptions is the anti-depressant category, in pediatrics!) The same insights he gives his patients are here in his book.

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About the Author

Dr. Peter Hanson has a unique background, one that gives him outstanding qualifications on the subject of stress. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, he graduated from the University of Toronto Medical School at the age of 24. A year later, he was appointed team doctor for the Toronto Argonauts Football club, becoming the youngest team doctor in professional sports. In this position, he learned a great deal of the effects of stress on human performance. Dr. Hanson has done key-note speeches to hundreds of live audiences, from Fortune 500 corporations to business associations, as well as the general public. In promoting his books around the world, he has appeared on hundreds of live television shows in Europe, the US, Canada, and Australia, and New Zealand. He has had a nationally syndicated radio feature that ran daily in Canada for over five years. Dr. Hanson also practiced sports medicine in Denver, Colorado, using medical acupuncture. His first patient there was the Bronco’s football star John Elway, whose throwing arm he treated. He has also served as one of the team medical consultants for the Colorado Avalanche and the Los Angeles Kings of the NHL. Dr. Hanson has faced stress, literally, by addressing the effects of stress on our faces. Teaming up with Suzanne Somers and Rodger Mohme, one of Apple's leading engineers, he has developed the FaceMaster, a home unit that tones the underlying muscles of the face. He and Suzanne have often appeared on television, marketing this amazing machine. (available at www.facemaster.com) Rodger Mohme and Dr. Hanson then joined creative forces to co-found stressipedia.com. This was inspired by Dr. Hanson’s current patients, who often become overwhelmed by looking up any symptom on the internet. By answering questions from his real patients in family and sports medicine, Hanson can take the stress out of the information trail. Far better than giving each patient a “core dump” of verbal lists, stressipedia.com allows the information to be called up on their cell phones in the grocery store or at the gym. Dr. Hanson continues to practice family medicine and sports medicine in downtown Toronto. He can be reached at his web site: www.stressipedia.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: StressWorks
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0988462001
• ISBN 13: 9780988462007
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 334