Myotherapy: Bonnie Prudden's Complete Guide to Pain-Free Living - Softcover

Bonnie Prudden

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345326881 ISBN 13: 9780345326881

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1985

Synopsis

America's #1 fitness expert will help you get rid of pain forever!
Myotherapy -- muscle therapy -- is a safe, drug-free way to eliminate pain caused by stress, accidents, sports, disease, and job hazards. It is the cornerstone of Bonnie Prudden's total program for lifelong fitness, health, and freedom from pain.
First, you'll learn the "Quick Fix" -- how to find and press your "trigger points" for immediate pain relief.
Then, you'll be ready to begin a complete, head-to-toe, day-to-day program -- the "Permanent Fix" -- designed to re-educate your muscles, toning and stretching them to prevent the recurrence of pain. Prudden has developed exercises you can do at home, at work, while gardening, even while waiting for a bus. By making these exercises an integral part of your life, you can enjoy pain-free living andslow down the aging process.
Profusely illustrated with step-by-step exercises as well as detailed photographs and diagrams, Bonnie Prudden's Myotherapy is a state-of-the-art fitness program that anyone of any age can follow and enjoy.
"The amazing thing is that it works!" -- Prevention Magazine

About this title

About the Author:

Bonnie Prudden has been actively involved in the physical-fitness movement for over six decades. Her studies on the unhealthy fitness level of American children and her report "The Report that Shocked the President" led to the formation of the President's Council on Youth Fitness under the Eisenhower administration. She had a weekely exercise spot on the "Today" show and wrote the exercise column for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. In the 40s and 50s she became a world class rock climber putting up 30 first ascents in the Shawangunks and was the first woman to earn a National Ski Patrol badge. She is the author of fifteen books, including two bestsellers PAIN ERASURE THE BONNIE PRUDDEN WAY and HOW TO KEEP SLENDER AND FIT AFTER THIRTY. In 2005 she was inducted into the Fitness Hall of Fame. In 2006 she was the first person to be inducted into the massage Hall of Fame and in 2007 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sport. At age 97 she continues to give lectures and interviews on safe, productive exercise for the prevention and relief of muscle pain.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0345326881
• ISBN 13: 9780345326881
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 115