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Keep Moving: Take Steps to Relieve Pain & Improve Your Life
Keep Moving is a practical, yet playful, guide for pain relief without drugs or surgery so that you can finally feel good in your body again. Pain from a recurring injury, disease, surgery, or general wear and tear is frustrating, exhausting, and can make you afraid to move. Learning what your body needs along with simple changes you can make every day, can help alleviate pain, reduce anxiety, and increase your quality of life. This is not just another book of exercises, but provides helpful illustrations, amusing stories, new research, and spot-on advice. Maggie Downie shows you proven pain management techniques to help you relieve chronic or acute pain in your body. You’ll Changes you can make in daily life, without standard exercise to reduce pain, Ways to help prevent getting re-injured when adding movement back into your life, Simple, easy-to-follow exercises that you can do, even while reading this book, Techniques to alleviate common problems, like lower back pain and neck tension, How to reduce the fear you’ve developed around moving and rekindle the joy of becoming active again, And fun, informative cartoons of how your body works, so that you can keep moving with confidence. Once you understand how your body moves and why pain strikes the way it does, you can begin to reverse the pain, get out of the endless pain loop, and get your life back again.
162 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 19, 2018
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July 15, 2019
Keep Moving: Take Steps to Relieve Pain & Improve Your Life — Maggie Downie (Introduction + 3 sections and 10 chapters ) Feb. 26-June 11, 2019
There are three sections in this book, with a total of ten chapters. The first section covers pain, why it hurts, how it works, and how to get motivated. The second section is about the body and getting it ready. The third section is about movement. If you are eager to get moving, skip the first section and jump to chapter five. If you feel confident about the body and movement and want the straight dope, skip to the third section, chapter eight.
But I recommend you DON’T skip any of it. Yes, if it gets boring, skim those pages, but each section has tidbits of info that I found interesting and important. I read this book and put it aside, as I attempted to draw on my memories from it when I was writing a review for it, I found myself re-reading it and finding that I enjoyed it even more the second time around. (Which is why there is a Lon gap between when I started to read in Feb. and when I “finished” in June.)
This is a pretty good book that emphasizes movement. Any and all. Even if it’s just getting up and moving in short spirts over the course of the day. I found that approach refreshing and motivating and worth the price the book alone. However the third section was the most helpful part. The basic idea is any movement is good. You don’t need to run, unless that excites you and simply walking is A-OK too.
The illustrations throughout the book were phenomenal! I even showed my son some of the illustration (like how to breath, wearing shoes, walking….) and he is finally getting it! Another bit that was worthwhile purchasing this book! This is a book I am definitely going to find myself re-reading.
Four stars.
There are three sections in this book, with a total of ten chapters. The first section covers pain, why it hurts, how it works, and how to get motivated. The second section is about the body and getting it ready. The third section is about movement. If you are eager to get moving, skip the first section and jump to chapter five. If you feel confident about the body and movement and want the straight dope, skip to the third section, chapter eight.
But I recommend you DON’T skip any of it. Yes, if it gets boring, skim those pages, but each section has tidbits of info that I found interesting and important. I read this book and put it aside, as I attempted to draw on my memories from it when I was writing a review for it, I found myself re-reading it and finding that I enjoyed it even more the second time around. (Which is why there is a Lon gap between when I started to read in Feb. and when I “finished” in June.)
This is a pretty good book that emphasizes movement. Any and all. Even if it’s just getting up and moving in short spirts over the course of the day. I found that approach refreshing and motivating and worth the price the book alone. However the third section was the most helpful part. The basic idea is any movement is good. You don’t need to run, unless that excites you and simply walking is A-OK too.
The illustrations throughout the book were phenomenal! I even showed my son some of the illustration (like how to breath, wearing shoes, walking….) and he is finally getting it! Another bit that was worthwhile purchasing this book! This is a book I am definitely going to find myself re-reading.
Four stars.
November 18, 2018
Maggie writes an accessible guide to the importance of movement. The book has lots of practical and easy to follow exercises. It's a good reminder that even if you can't move a lot, even minimal movement is important! The anatomy section was so interesting, and easy to follow. Whether or not you're dealing with pain, this book is an important read!
March 31, 2019
A very informative book for anyone that has issues with pain. The author does a great job of describing the issues and provides steps to take that can improve the reader's life. The information in the book is comprehensive. I really liked the tone of the book as well as the illustrations. I think if anyone with pain follows the exercises described in this book will feel better.
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