Yoga and Multiple Sclerosis: A Journey to Health and Healing / Edition 1

by Loren M. Fishman MD, Eric L. Small

Overview

This comprehensive, user-friendly guide shows how to apply yogic principles to the management of multiple sclerosis. Written by a medical doctor and a yoga teacher who has MS, the book describes how yoga works; includes photographs and descriptions of each pose; explains effects, advantages, and contraindications; and contains "starter poses" for the novice or the physically challenged. The first section is a straightforward but gentle introduction to yoga. The second part is functionally oriented, presenting poses that help combat fatigue, reduce spasticity, increase range of motion and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781932603170
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	05/18/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Loren Martin Fishman, MD, BPhil, is Assistant Clinical Professor in Rehabilitation at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and former President, New York Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Treasurer, Manhattan Institute for Cancer Research (Philanthropy).

Eric L. Small holds a Junior Intermediate Level Three Certificate from the B.K.S. Iyengar Institute in Puna, India. Eric also conducts teacher training workshops in therapeutic yoga around the United States.

Table of Contents

"Part I
Restorative Sequence
Energy Sequence
Movement Sequence Ambulatory Supportive
Relaxation Sequence
Part II
Yoga for Functional Improvement
Introduction
Specifically Directed Poses
Fatigue
Range of Motion
Spasticity
Strength
Coordination, Calm, and Balance Breathing"

Editorial Reviews

"...A must-have book... It offers hope, inspiration, adaptive practices for all levels of mobility and ability, and reasons why yoga works for particular symptoms. For yoga teachers, this book offers valuable practices and insights that teachers can use to make yoga accessible and appropriate for students who have multiple sclerosis and other health challenges. For the medical community, this book offers great visuals for adaptive yoga postures and explanations for how yoga works, from a peer with years of experience in the field of rehabilitation."--International Journal of Yoga Therapy

"Encompasses every aspect of using yoga with MS, no matter where your disease has taken you... I recommend this book as a worthwhile purchase to use to increase our abilities to move throughout days better and take care of our bodies to make living with MS less stressful."--MS World

"...An invaluable book that will serve the MS population and the people who work with them on their path to improved health... A useful refresher for those immersed in the field and an introduction and addition to hands-on training for those interested in the realm of therapeutic yoga."--LA Yoga Magazine

"Ideal for the non-specialist general reader, Yoga and Multiple Sclerosis describes how yoga works. The text is enhanced with photographs and descriptions of each yoga pose... An important acquisition for personal and community libraries, Yoga and Multiple Sclerosis is especially recommended for those who are experiencing symptoms across the MS spectrum."--Midwest Book Review

"For decades, yoga teachers all over the United States have acknowledged the work of Eric Small as the ultimate in helping them work with their own students with MS. No doubt they are now celebrating because Small and long-time yoga student and back expert Loren Fishman, MD, have produced the definitive book on the topic. Not only does this book offer insight into yoga practice and self-transformation for those living with MS, it also offers something even more important: hope. To say this book will become a classic is an understatement."--Judith Hanson Lasater, PhD, PT, yoga teacher since 1971, and author of six books on yoga

"PhD, PT, yoga teacher since 1971, and author of six books on yoga" - Judith "Lasater PhD

For decades, yoga teachers all over the United States have acknowledged the work of Eric Small as the ultimate in helping them work with their own students with MS. No doubt they are now celebrating because Small and long-time yoga student and back expert, Loren Fishman, MD, have produced the definitive book on the topic. Not only does this book offer insight into yoga practice and self-transformation for those living with MS, it also offers something even more important: hope. To say this book will become a classic is an understatement.”—Judith Hanson Lasater, PhD, PT, yoga teacher since 1971, and author of six books on yoga

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