Walk Yourself WellWe all know walking is great exercise. But how many people realize that walking even slightly askew (with movements that are repeated thousands of tunes a day) can cause an incredible amount of damage? Damage that may not be apparent until years of accumulated bad habits lead to greater vulnerability, severe pain and possible injury. In Walk Yourself Well, Sherry Brourman, a physical therapist with 25 years of experience and whose clients include Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver, Paul M. Glaser, Ekaterina Gordeeva, and Al Joyner, shows how to free oneself from structural damage by using corrective walking techniques and simple exercises -- and without unnecessary surgery, drugs or bedrest. Walk Yourself Well shows readers how to use the body's natural motions to restore proper alignment and allow the body to strengthen in all the right places and remove pain and heal all by itself. Brourman's Primary Movement Balancing program is fully illustrated, in an instructional format anyone can use at home. Brourman also shows how to introduce the same methods into daily activities, not just walking -- replacing painful patterns with healing ways to move, and enabling readers to develop healthier habits of movement. |
Contents
LEARNING THE SPORT OF WALKING | 114 |
STRENGTHENING BYLAWS | 116 |
Top Leg Back | 140 |
Top Leg Forward | 141 |
Over Pillows | 145 |
Hands and Knees | 146 |
STRETCHING EXERCISES | 179 |
List of Stretching Exercises | 182 |
Hamstring Stretch | 191 |
Inner Thigh Stretch | 192 |
Karis Gait | 229 |
Profile | 234 |
Profile | 237 |
Jerrys Personal | 250 |
Other editions - View all
Walk Yourself Well: Eliminate Back, Neck, Shoulder, Knee, Hip, and Other ... Sherry Brourman,Randy Rodman No preview available - 1998 |
Walk Yourself Well: Eliminate Back, Neck, Shoulder, Knee, Hip, and Other ... Sherry Brourman No preview available - 1999 |
Common terms and phrases
ankle AREAS OF PAIN back pain Belly Press bend buns chest chin corrections and exercises Cross Crawl Double Knees elbow exhale extensors feel flexion floor front Gait Application gluteus maximus gluteus medius Groucho Marx hamstrings Hands and Knees heel strike Hip Circles Hip Extensions Hip Flexor Stretch Inhale injury inner thigh keep Knees to Toes lean back lift look lower abs lower back mid-stance move Neck Extensions Neck Flexors patients physical therapist piriformis muscle position Press-ups Primary Movement Pattern problem pronation Push-ups pushoff quadratus lumborum muscle right hip sandwich system Sartorius sartorius muscle Scapular sciatic nerve Shoulder Rolls side Sitting Lats slightly Slo-Mo Walking Soleus spine squeeze stability stance phase Standing step Straight Leg Raises STRENGTHENING EXERCISES Stretching exercises structural Supine Stretch Routine Supportive Gait corrections surgery swing phase Technical Purpose Terry torso twist upper back upper body Wall Stretch Routine weight