Yoga Bones: A Comprehensive Guide to Managing Pain and Orthopedic Injuries through Yoga

by Laura Staton

Overview

Create a personalized, therapeutic, yoga-based plan to heal bodily pain and get you back to living the life you deserve.
 
If you are one of the millions of people who suffer from an orthopedic condition, you understand the impact on your daily life. From neck pain to knee replacement and everything in between, Laura Staton uses yoga as a roadmap to restore function and life balance. This invaluable guide helps you explore your mind-body connection to manage your discomfort and find long-term healing, increase strength, and decrease pain.
 
Expertly organized by orthopedic conditions including herniated disks in the back or neck, shoulder syndromes, hip replacements, and more, each chapter includes a curated menu of therapeutic poses with descriptions, photographs, and illustrations. Yoga Bones is accessible to all ages and abilities, with yoga that is easily adaptable to different levels of fitness and function. With a holistic and gentle approach, Staton provides a bridge between mainstream medical practices and mindful healing. You don't have to suffer through pain or learn to endure it; you can find ways to strengthen your body and your overall health.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306846267
Publisher:	Hachette Books
Publication date:	01/05/2021
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	608,835
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Laura Staton holds a Master's Degree of Science in Occupational Therapy from NYU and is a C-IAYT Yoga Therapist specializing in injury rehabilitation. She works as a Senior Occupational Therapist at a Northwell Health teaching hospital, and is the co-author of Baby Om -Yoga for Mothers & Babies. Laura is passionate about yoga's powerful effect on physical and emotional well-being, and how this interacts with daily life. For many years, she was a dancer and choreographer in NYC and received her BFA from The Juilliard School.

Julie Lemberger is a Brooklyn-based photographer, a former dancer who witnesses and preserves the body’s movements with her camera, and has been focusing specifically on dance, in New York City for nearly three decades. Her photographs have appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Dance Magazine and other notable books and websites. As a multi-disciplinary artist, she earned degrees in fine art, dance studies, and dance education and promotes artistry when possible. Her Modern Women: 21st Century Dance, A Coloring Book with illustrations derived from her photographs, chronicles dance by women in a new era, and can be colored by you.

Table of Contents

Sources ix

Why Yoga Bones? xiii

How to Use This Book xv

The Spine

Chapter 1 The Spine 3

Functional Wellness: What Is It? 11

The Lower Back

Chapter 2 Lumbar Herniations 15

Functional Wellness: Your Practice Space 29

Chapter 3 Sciatica 31

Functional Wellness: Feel Your Body! 43

Chapter 4 Spondylolisthesis 45

Functional Wellness: Chakras and the Life Span 64

Chapter 5 Lower Back Pain (and your iliopsoas!) 67

Functional Wellness: Chalcras 83

Chapter 6 Core Strength 87

Functional Wellness: The Pelvic Floor 111

The Upper Back

Chapter 7 Kyphosis: 117

Functional Wellness: Meditation and the Brain 132

Chapter 8 Freeing Your Neck 135

Functional wellness: Three Meditations 149

The Shoulders

Chapter 9 Frozen Shoulder Syndrome 155

Functional wellness: Our Breath, Our Superpower 166

Chapter 10 Total Shoulder Replacement 169

Functional Wellness: Five Breathing Techniques 181

Chapter 11 Strengthening the Shoulders and Rotator Cuff 187

Functional Wellness: The Serratus Anterior 200

Pelvis and Knees

Chapter 12 Total Hip Replacement 205

Functional Wellness: Prone Breathing 220

Chapter 13 Total Knee Replacement 223

Functional Wellness: Chronic Inflammation and Disease 238

Chapter 14 Strengthen Your Knees! 241

Functional Wellness: Find Your Mantra 258

The Extremities

Chapter 15 The Feet 263

Functional Wellness: Leisure Time Is Nonnegotiablel 275

Chapter 16 Hands, Forearms, and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome 277

Collaborators and Contributors 295

Acknowledgments 299

Editorial Reviews

"Yoga Bones is a knowledgeable and insightful guide for anyone interested in the interface of Western medicine and Eastern yoga practices, and how they combine to treat many physical conditions and create holistic well-being. Staton's experience as both an occupational therapist and a yoga therapist comes together in a treasure trove of accessible and helpful guidance. I love this book, and I recommend it to professionals, and to anyone who is seeking help with issues ranging from foot to neck pain, and everything in between."—Liz Owen, yoga therapist and coauthor of The Yoga Effect and Yoga for a Healthy Lower Back

"Laura's unique and well-received individualized yoga sessions have been enormously beneficial to appropriate patients as an adjunct to their rehabilitation programs. She applies her expertise to Yoga Bones, which provides additional treatment options that patients can use, with the advice of their physicians, to help alleviate their symptoms."—Jeffrey B. Weinberg, MD, chairman, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Staten Island University Hospital

“This book is clear and informative; its author is anatomically sophisticated, and has crucial knowledge of how changes in anatomy translate into functional problems. With equal clarity she sketches out how to take care of these problems."—Loren Fishman, MD, Columbia University Medical School, B.Phil.,(oxon.)

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