Rehab Science: The Complete Guide to Overcoming Pain, Healing from Injury, and Increasing Mobility

In his new book, Rebab Science: Pain, Injury, Movement - The Complete Guide, Dr. Tom Walters shows you how to take back the power by understanding and identifying pain and injury, learning how to treat it, and ending your chronic pain for good. Our current healthcare models (and myths) can be frustrating and even scary. Rehab Science outlines a new way of thinking about pain and injury with a movement-based system that helps you treat physical pain on your own terms. Dr. Walters delivers proven protocols that strengthen the body, reduce pain, and keep pain and injury from reoccurring in the future. This book teaches the best movements and pain-relieving exercises to rehabilitate common orthopedic injuries using step-by-step guides designed by a renowned physical therapist. Find out how to differentiate between pain and injury, how long different injuries take to heal, and what you can do to accelerate the phases of healing. In Rehab Science, you'll learn: - How to identify and treat common pains and injuries - Which exercises can prevent pain from returning - How long you should be doing rehab exercises - Major signs and symptoms that may need medical attention - How a diagnosis can factor into recovery - What common X-ray and MRI findings mean - How to program exercises to rehab specific injuries - When you might need to consider surgery - And much, much more. If you want the power to get out of pain, rehabilitate an injury, and become more resilient, look no further than Rehab Science. "Being armed with such knowledge removes the fear and anxiety associated with pain and injury and frees you up to take charge of your health. Because there are solutions. Whether you have pain from unknown causes, you sustained an injury, or you have chronic pain and nothing else has worked, the protocols give you a clear blueprint to follow. Simply go to the body region where you feel pain or have an injury, choose the protocol that matches your symptoms or condition, and start following the three-phase exercise program. This book provides 30 programs for the most common pain and injuries in every body region."--Publisher