Listen to Your Pain: The Active Person's Guide to Understanding, Identifying, and Treating Pain and Injury

The newly updated edition of the classic guide to assessing and treating pain and injury

For more than twenty-five years, Listen to Your Pain has been a leading resource for understanding pain and injury problems. Now revised and updated based on recent research, this comprehensive, fully illustrated guide:
* explains how to determine exactly what is causing your pain, using simple tests
* provides detailed instructions for therapists on assessing and treating each major injury
* outlines possible treatment choices, from self-therapy to medical help
* catalogs injuries by the part of the body that hurts, for easy reference
* offers exercise and rehabilitation regimens to help promote faster healing and complete recovery

Listen to Your Pain remains the essential reference for active people seeking an understanding of their injuries and relief from their pain.

Ben E. Benjamin is the founder of the Muscular Therapy Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has worked in sports medicine/muscular therapy private practice since 1963. His books include Listen to Your Pain: The Active Person's Guide to Understanding, Identifying, and Treating Pain and Injury; Are You Tense?: The Benjamin System of Muscular Therapy; and Exercise Without Injury. Dr. Benjamin earned a PhD in sports medicine at Union Graduate School; a bachelor of professional sciences at Empire State College; and studied assessment techniques in orthopedic medicine with the James Cyriax, MD.