Release Your Pain: Resolving Repetitive Strain Injuries with Active Release Techniques

Release Your Pain presents ART (Active Release Techniques) as a new approach to addressing such common repetitive strain injuries as carpal tunnel syndrome, plantar fasciitis, knee and shoulder injuries, and back pain. Based on case studies, the book shows how ART locates and breaks down scar tissue and adhesions that cause pain, stiffness, weakness, numbness, and physical dysfunctions associated with repetitive strain injuries. Topics include how and why these injuries occur, which treatments to avoid when possible (including surgery), and how noninvasive methods succeed where others fail. Each chapter includes black and white photo sequences of therapy techniques and stretches.

Dr. Brian Abelson is the Clinical Director of Edgemont Chiropractic Soft-Tissue Management Systems in Calgary, Alberta. Abelson attended the University of Calgary, majoring in Biosciences, and later graduated from Palmer College of Chiropractic West in California. He holds advanced certification in all levels of Active Release Techniques, is trained in Biomechanics and ART, is an accomplished ART instructor, and is licensed to the ART Elite Providers Network. Abelson lives in Calgery with his wife and co-author Kamali and their two children.

Kamali Abelson is the president of Rowen Tree Books, Ltd. She is a Senior Technical Communicator and Information Architect with over twenty-two years’ experience in the fields of science, commuting, business analysis, and communication. She has written, edited, and produced numerous books in fields ranging from engineering, to geophysics, to computing, and health and nutrition.

Foreword writer Dr. P. Michael Leahy is the developer of Active Release Techniques (ART). He is a soft-tissue practitioner and has treated world-class athletes and healed many people over the course of his career.