Healing Yoga: Proven Postures to Treat Twenty Common Ailments from Backache to Bone Loss, Shoulder Pain to Bunions, and More

Healing Yoga: Proven Postures to Treat Twenty Common Ailments from Backache to Bone Loss, Shoulder Pain to Bunions, and More

by Loren Fishman MD
Healing Yoga: Proven Postures to Treat Twenty Common Ailments from Backache to Bone Loss, Shoulder Pain to Bunions, and More

Healing Yoga: Proven Postures to Treat Twenty Common Ailments from Backache to Bone Loss, Shoulder Pain to Bunions, and More

by Loren Fishman MD

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Overview

"To many of his patients [Dr. Fishman] is a miracle worker." —Jane E. Brody, New York Times

Designed for yoga practitioners ranging from beginners to experienced, Healing Yoga shows how every reader can not only heal, but can also help diagnose, their specific medical conditions. Written by internationally recognized physical and rehabilitative medicine physician Loren Fishman, MD, this guide unites Western medical information with the practice of yoga. Depending on the severity and chronicity of the ailment, the advice and postures in this book can provide a doctor’s immediate assistance—at home, and without cost or fancy equipment, drugs or surgery.

  • Addresses 20 common conditions: headache, weight gain, the common cold, insomnia, bone health, scoliosis, PMS, stress, depression, 8 different types of back pain, and others.
  • Includes 170 photographs that illustrate healing techniques Dr. Fishman has invented, refined, and validated with thousands of patients, through decades of experimentation.
  • Features Dr. Fishman’s own evidence-based, pioneering, and prize-winning clinical research on rotator cuff problems (1,200 cases, 90 percent success rate), osteoporosis, and scoliosis.
  • Offers insights learned directly from Dr. Fishman’s teacher, BKS Iyengar, the founder of “Iyengar Yoga,” as well as how Dr. Fishman went beyond his early training to discover groundbreaking curative techniques.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393078008
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 01/05/2015
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 272
Sales rank: 417,068
Product dimensions: 6.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Loren Fishman, MD, is a professor at Columbia Medical School and the medical director of Manhattan Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. The author of five books on the medical potential of yoga, he lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Part 1 Back Pain: An Overview 9

Part 2 Musculoskeletal Back Pain 23

1 Quadratus Lumborum 25

2 Tight Hamstrings 30

3 Facet Syndrome 38

4 Sacroiliac Joint Derangement 47

Part 3 Neurological Back Pain 55

5 Herniated Disc 57

6 Stenosis 66

7 Piriformis Syndrome 72

8 Combination Problems 86

Part 4 Injuries and Systemic Problems 99

9 Rotator Cuff 101

10 Headache 118

11 Weight Control 128

12 Common Cold 139

13 Bone Health 148

14 Insomnia 167

15 Scoliosis 175

16 Premenstrual Syndrome 189

17 Depression 199

Part 5 Three Research Projects 209

18 Restless Legs Syndrome 213

19 Bunion 216

20 Plantar Fasciitis 220

Acknowledgments 227

Glossary 229

Sanskrit Pronunciation and Meaning Guide 235

About the Contributors 237

Notes 241

Index of Poses by Chapter 251

Alphabetical Index of Poses 255

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