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Walk Yourself Well: Eliminate Back, Shoulder, Knee, Hip, and Other Structural Pain Forever-Without Surgery or Drugs | 
 enlarge | Authors: Sherry Brourman, Randy Rodman
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 739184
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
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Pages: 292
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Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 6.5 x 1.3
ISBN: 0786862939
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.7062
EAN: 9780786862931
ASIN: 0786862939
Publication Date: January 1998
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Given the exotic nature of so many bodywork practices, readers will be surprised to learn that they can improve their health and well-being with something as simple as walking. But that's just what Los Angeles physical therapist Brourman asserts here. Walking isn't just a great physical and meditative exercise, she points out, it's the physical activity we do most often. And just as imbalance, poor posture and untoned muscles can lead to painful injuries, correcting the way you walk and strengthening and stretching your muscles can speed your recovery or prevent you from getting hurt in the first place. Because Brourman doesn't have the luxury of seeing every reader personally, a great deal of the book is devoted to diagnosing and solving individual gait problems--something that can be done, she says, because the standards of human symmetry are the same for everyone. "The truth is that height, weight, proportions, age, sex, and all other human features and options don't change the basic elements of a symmetrical walk," she writes. The instructions are reasonably easy to follow (although some readers may be disconcerted by a common experience--when you start thinking about how you should be doing something you do every day, you start to "forget" how you did it in the first place). Those who are suffering from pain in such places as the back and the knees may be most motivated to follow Brourman's instructions, but she makes it clear that just about everyone can benefit from a good walk.
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 a great reference for feet April 15, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I found the information in this book exciting, compelling and read it through from cover to cover. Finally someone's talking about feet!
As a former dancer and current teacher..I see a lot of mean treatment to the feet. Many of my personal concerns, hunches and observations were articulated. I am adding book to my library and recommended reading list.
I especially liked the way the author addressed and offered corrective measures for heel to floor contact. My own feet have suffered under my abuse in breaks, strains, burns and other mean injuries and I can tell you...doctors offer little in the way of truly useful information. Just a shot, a pill, a cast, a knife...it's terrible and frustrating.
I think we would be better served with this information in our elementary classrooms than having to memorize all the former president's birthdays and names!!!
It's no fun hurting and many of our hurts happen when we lack information and mishandle our bodies.
Some reviewers found her stories and writing style lacking..yes her verbage is at times goofy. Her reference to "buns" had me doing a couple of double takes to make sure I wasn't seeing things...
I personally liked the simplicity of the pictures/drawings. I would have enjoyed more..to demonstrate proper and improper form.
A video/dvd would be a great addition to this book to help us audio/visual learners.
I checked this book out from the library and have ordered my own copy. This information is highly useful for any dance, movement or fitness coach as well as anyone who is sick of putting their well being into the hands of others!
This book is a keeper.
This is such a valuable book for anyone, whether you are in pain or not! August 8, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book contains such a valuable wealth of knowledge for anyone, and especially for those in pain. I was having major back pains for years, and the tools that I received in this book took me to a much better place physically. I've read it all the way through twice, and although not every exercise applies to me, I learn new things each time I read it. The way Ms. Brourman has synergized the disciplines of Physical Therapy, Proper Posture, and Gait Correction is surely ahead of her time. Although all the work I did with Chiropractors and Orthopedic Doctors was valuable, it never really addressed the major problems of proper posture, gait, and muscle strength. My advice to others is to read the book and progress along at a slow yet deliberate rate. For anyone in pain looking for a "Quick Fix," good luck! It's a rare thing. Expect to do some work, but like myself, feeling good was certainly worth it in the end.
Walk Yourself Well August 6, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I found Walk Yourself Well to be an excellent tool to heal my injured hip and knee. I would highly recommend it to all of my clients.
Need Something for Those Aches and Pains? March 31, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Having a variety of foot and leg problems plus being told that I "walk funny," led me to search out this book. Anxious for a quick fix, I wanted to jump right in with exercises targeted to my specific problems.
Unfortunately the book makes you wade through too many stories of people miraculously cured by the author's program. I also found it difficult to find myself in the self-evaluation section. Gait correction sounds like just what I need, but I wish it were easier to match my needs to the body living exercises. An extended promotion for the effectiveness of the exercises hindered more than it helped.
This book took me from a level 6 of chronic pain to ZERO July 4, 2004
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
I have spent the last five years in agony with a bad ankle. For some strange reason that I didn't understand at that time,(and neither did the two surgeons, one rhematologist, two podiatrists, four physical therapists and countless er docs with whom I consulted over the last thirty years), as I was doing my regular areobic work, I totally ruptured the peroneal longus tendon in my right foot. Two surgeries later I was left with a chronically swollen ankle. I had lost the tendon and the peroneal nerve. I had total ankle reconstruction and had my heel bone moved over so my ankle would be more stable. It wasn't. Fast forward three years. The pain had increased and moved up into my back and hips. It was horrible. I couldn't sleep. My foot doc said, you will have to learn to live with it. I had an MRI. I had bulging discs in L1-2, 2-3 and 3-4. The 2-3 was pressing on the spinal cord. I was losing feeling and strength in my hips and legs despite doing all the weight lifting and cardio I could handle, about 90 minutes a day x 6 days a week.
I researched why this would happen. I had a gradual onset of the back issue and couldn't remember a specific incidence of over doing or strain. The title of this book popped up in reply to an internet search I did on the L2-3 disk bulge, so I ordered it. I had gone to see an osteopath for help with the back issue and was in physical therapy for it. My pt noticed that during exercises my ankle bowed out. She said, "That's the problem." I went home to find this book had come. I read it in two days and immediately began to do the work recommended. I took the book to the osteopath who agreed with the pt. That was about two weeks ago. I am now totally pain free for the first time in five years, and without pain meds. Not only are my right ankle, leg, hips and back good, but my left shoulder which also hurt most of the time no longer hurts. It seems that due to my gait my ankles roll to the outside with every step. This resulted in atrophied ankle muscles, which meant more weakness. Finally my tendon blew. And then my spine. Thanks to the information this author presents in a humorous fashion I have finally accepted the cause for my problems and am working on relearning to walk. It isn't all that easy, but then it isn't impossible either, given the other choice. A number of members of my family have the same gait pattern. My father and older brother have both had horrific ankle problems, no one knew why. They both have had back surgery, and both have lost the L2-3 disc. Again, no one knew why. I have two sons in their twenties who walk like me and who have had ankle problems and back pain since their late teens. I am buying copies of this book for them. Using this book could be difficult for those without an open mind. The author's use of humour and stories of her patients helped me to recognize and accept my problem. I think we sometimes take life way too seriously, and that makes pain worse. I am so grateful for this book. I can't begin to say what value being pain free is for me. It is as though I have my life back! That said, I will admit that this information is not a panacea. I don't think it will cure asthma or aids. But, for structural problems and joint issues like mine, this information, and hard work, will be the answer. I am still in therapy and will be for a while. I expect that lasting results will not happen without sustained effort at relearning patterns of movement over a long period, probably the rest of my life. But it will be SO worth it!
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