Myotherapy: Bonnie Prudden's Guide

by Suzy Prudden and Bonnie Prudden

Book Overview

America's #1 fitness expert will help you get rid of pain forever! Myotherapy -- muscle therapy -- is a safe, drug-free way to eliminate pain caused by stress, accidents, sports, disease, and job... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345326881
• ISBN13: 9780345326881
• Release Date: September 1985
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 1000 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

myotherapy: Bonnie Prudden's Guide to Pain-Free Living

Bonnie Prudden was a person light years ahead of her time.What she had to say about fitness and injuries is still applicable today. Her techniques to reduce pain have helped me to get rid of my chronic back pain. This book is a must for reference and techniques that really work.

Surprisingly thorough!

I am very impressed with this book and have been recommending it to all my friends. Although the techniques described will not be learned in an instant, or on the first read, it should not be too hard for most people to figure them out from the detailed, thoughtful explanations in this book. Recently, I read a couple of books in the same vein that got me interested in the idea that chronic pain is largely created by muscle tension, so I was open to hearing her experiences ... and the conclusions she has come up with make a lot of sense. I especially found the corrective exercises to be *excellent*. I wish, though, that the exercises were presented together in one section .. it's a little hard to jump from page 20 to page 43 to page 67. However, this way of presenting it forces you to read the in-between text, which has much valuable information. I can't say much about the efficacy yet because I have only begun to apply it, but I expect it to be very helpful for my chronic "computer-neck" problems. Check it out!

been doing exercises for years and they changed my life

I have various problems: a bad upper back, minor arthritis in the knee. Years ago, I started "freezing up" from muscle tension and the inactivity that came from being immobile. I discovered this book and have been applying it to myself ever since. I haven't had any contact with her organization lately, but back then, they sold a curved piece of metal with rubber tips on each end called a "shepherds crook." I have been using it on my own back ever since. The technique combines pressing on points of the various muscles for 5 seconds or so, along with stretching exercise. It works.

Excellent

I had very good results using the techniques in this book to treat my Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and some other hand and arm aches and pains. My CTS is virtually gone and the other problems are much better and still improving.I found it best to combine the methods from this book with those in Sharon Butlers Carpal Tunnel Syndrome book. The two combined plus a little bit of very gentle muscle building (especially of the muscles that open the hand) worked wonders.I highly recommend this book.

Myotherapy has allowed my wife to not be totally bedridden.

My wife has had cronic lower back pain since 1984; due to a degenerated disc that has completely dissolved. Surgeons have constantly refused to operate and only pain pills could mask the pain until (in 1985) we discovered Myotherapy. The recommended techniques for the applicable areas have been and are still being used with great success. Both my wife and myself swear by the technique. What is totally amazing to me is that every back surgeon, back specialist and GP that we have encountered over the years (save one) had not previously heard of Myotherapy. - - - a number of them have adopted it since (as part of their in-office treatments).