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Pain Free: A Revolutionary Method for Stopping Chronic Pain
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Rather remarkable for severe, disabling Myofascial Pain, Chronic Fatigue, and Sleep Disorders. If you've got Fibromyalgia or related chronic pain conditions, try this method!
It just occurred to me as I was rating another title about chronic pain that I'd never reviewed 'Pain Free,' one of my very favorite titles on the subject. You haven't read enough about anatomical structure and how it relates to your pain until you've read this book! It's been a while since I read it, honestly, and am due for a re-read, but I will say that the 'Pain Free' book, and especially the two Pain Free DVDs are the one thing I tell any of my friends suffering with chronic pain that they cannot live without. Never before have a total of $30 spent on books and DVDs changed my life. Do I still have pain? You betcha. I'm not as diligent as I should be in applying Egoscue's methods, and I have a very severe disabling pain condition. But I will say that Pete Egoscue got me moving, again, and the noticeable drop in my pain levels has almost literally been a lifesaver. The difference between an 8 and a 5 on the pain scale might not seem substantive to a person not intimately familiar with chronic pain, but let me tell you... it is HUGE when you're living with daily pain that affects even your basic standards and activities of life. This is ESSENTIAL reading for any pain management patient or physician.... physical therapists, mental health practitioners dealing with chronic pain with their patients... all of them should read it, as well. This book, and the related dvds, are not to be missed. I've tried everything from yoga to tai chi to very very mild aquatic therapy. I simply don't tolerate it well, as my pain and fatigue levels are just too high, daily. I give it my all, but before long am left with limbs trembling and literally ready to fall down and curl up in a ball. Egoscue may look similar on paper to some other mild exercise regimes, but is DIFFERENT. I don't know how it's different, but rather than that utter exhaustion of limbs, and rising pain levels, I end up a bit energized and certainly in less pain after a go at the exercises. If you suffer with pain... please... try Pete Egoscue's method!!!! The book and the DVDs made such a difference for me, and they just might for you as well. Just trust me.... if you've still got partial function in your limbs, there's no such thing as 'too old' or 'too hurt' to try this method. Obviously, check with your doctor, first... heck, take him/her a copy of the book, because I've been astounded how many exemplary pain management docs have never heard of this one. It is so worthwhile. I've read a good 100 titles on chronic pain/disability/wellness over my nine year struggle with severe myofascial pain and fatigue... 'Pain Free' is the best of them, truly.
Here is my review on the Pain Free DVDs and a link to grab them at Amazon. IMO, you really need those to get the full benefit of Egoscue's method. http://www.amazon.com/review/R2YW3RTD...
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Aug 24, 2014
bookshelves: the-real-world-non-fiction, beloved-faves-multi-genre
Rather remarkable for severe, disabling Myofascial Pain, Chronic Fatigue, and Sleep Disorders. If you've got Fibromyalgia or related chronic pain conditions, try this method!
It just occurred to me as I was rating another title about chronic pain that I'd never reviewed 'Pain Free,' one of my very favorite titles on the subject. You haven't read enough about anatomical structure and how it relates to your pain until you've read this book! It's been a while since I read it, honestly, and am due for a re-read, but I will say that the 'Pain Free' book, and especially the two Pain Free DVDs are the one thing I tell any of my friends suffering with chronic pain that they cannot live without. Never before have a total of $30 spent on books and DVDs changed my life. Do I still have pain? You betcha. I'm not as diligent as I should be in applying Egoscue's methods, and I have a very severe disabling pain condition. But I will say that Pete Egoscue got me moving, again, and the noticeable drop in my pain levels has almost literally been a lifesaver. The difference between an 8 and a 5 on the pain scale might not seem substantive to a person not intimately familiar with chronic pain, but let me tell you... it is HUGE when you're living with daily pain that affects even your basic standards and activities of life. This is ESSENTIAL reading for any pain management patient or physician.... physical therapists, mental health practitioners dealing with chronic pain with their patients... all of them should read it, as well. This book, and the related dvds, are not to be missed. I've tried everything from yoga to tai chi to very very mild aquatic therapy. I simply don't tolerate it well, as my pain and fatigue levels are just too high, daily. I give it my all, but before long am left with limbs trembling and literally ready to fall down and curl up in a ball. Egoscue may look similar on paper to some other mild exercise regimes, but is DIFFERENT. I don't know how it's different, but rather than that utter exhaustion of limbs, and rising pain levels, I end up a bit energized and certainly in less pain after a go at the exercises. If you suffer with pain... please... try Pete Egoscue's method!!!! The book and the DVDs made such a difference for me, and they just might for you as well. Just trust me.... if you've still got partial function in your limbs, there's no such thing as 'too old' or 'too hurt' to try this method. Obviously, check with your doctor, first... heck, take him/her a copy of the book, because I've been astounded how many exemplary pain management docs have never heard of this one. It is so worthwhile. I've read a good 100 titles on chronic pain/disability/wellness over my nine year struggle with severe myofascial pain and fatigue... 'Pain Free' is the best of them, truly.
Here is my review on the Pain Free DVDs and a link to grab them at Amazon. IMO, you really need those to get the full benefit of Egoscue's method. http://www.amazon.com/review/R2YW3RTD...
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Hi. You mentioned fibromyalgia which I also have so I was hoping to ask you something. With chronic pain pretty much body wide how did you decide which areas to do? Did you do multiple areas and if so how did you deal with those that have repeat exercises? The author said to be sure to do things in order so how do you know what order to do things in when they repeat? Also sounded like you felt energized. Was that true from the very beginning? I ask because I started with just the hips today and and spent at least 6 hours feeling really bad like I sometimes do with a strong massage. Made my hips feel a lot worse but it seems like that might be inevitable to get them back working the way they should. Thanks for elaborating if you have the time.
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I’d also love to hear your response to Wendy’s questions when you have a moment. It’s be very helpful! Wish there was some kind of Facebook support group for this book
Thank you for your highly informative review.I have had back problems ever since a car accident at age 22. (Will be 81 next month.) I have also abused my back for decades sitting on soft couches, sitting in wrong positions, and dancing rock'n roll with fashionable, high-heal, leather-sole boots rather than with tennis shoes that would have dampened some of the impact when set back on the floor by unprofessional dance partners. (I ran a dancing school, and my rock'n roll students and occasional dance partners were mainly farm boys, some of whom strong enough to lift a tractor. And they used their strength to return me to the floor.) Add to this slipping a disc twice. Add to this a mountain trek with a way-too-heavy backpack. Add to this a few other body-damaging events. Add to this asthma, chronic bronchitis, and numerous long-time respiratory illnesses (such as pneumonia) that had me bedridden for weeks or even months many times and also kept me too weak for months at a time to move around much.
Then, last December, I accidentally stepped into a little depression on our property. This was followed by 5 days of increased back pain. After these 5 days, my back gave in when I sat down on the toilet, at night. On a pain scale of 0-10, this was an 11. (A 12 would have caused cardiac arrest.) I screamed in pain for about half an hour, and it took my husband about 20 minutes to raise me from the toilet and return me to bed. This repeated that night 3 times.
I eventually ended up in the ER, where they had to move me with a board and 4 strong men from one surface to another. I was, then, taken by ambulance 160 miles to a major hospital for emergency surgery. Yet the surgeon, who never showed up on my bedside, only kept conversing with the ER doctor by phone and eventually decided that there was a bleeding risk because I had used (aspirin containing) Aspercreme. I was sent home and told to come back after the holidays, when the aspirin would have cleared from my body.
Since I wasn't very impressed with this surgeon, I consulted a few other surgeons in January, none of which I found trustworthy. And then came covid-19. So I decided to forego surgery, stay a partial nursing case (I could barely make it with a walker from one room to another), and hoped that the natural healing power of the body might somewhat better my condition over time. And it did. I can now walk again distances of about 100 yards (without a cane on even ground, with a cane on uneven ground) and stand for a few minutes without getting horrid pain attacks, but I still have nightly pain that keeps me from sleeping, quite often until the early morning hours.
So last night, when browsing my bookcases for a new read, I came across the above book, which I had picked up once at a second-hand store but not looked at yet. I browsed through this book and found its claims promising. Then, I found your equally promising review. Will order the DVDs and give it a try. Would be so nice if I could hike again. (Never mind dancing. :-))
