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The Art of Body Maintenance

Winners' Guide to Pain Relief

by

Hal Blatman, MD

and

Brad Ekvall

This is an easy to understand, illustrated guide to the techniques that have been proven effective by more than 8,000 patients seen at Dr. Blatman’s pain clinic since 1988.
Use The Winner’s Guide to Pain Relief to better understand your body, manage your pain and stop depending on over-the-counter medicines. This book will help:
• Chronic Pain
• Sports related muscle pain/injury
• Carpal Tunnel
• Headaches
• Tennis Elbow
• Repetitive strain injury
• Tendonitis
• Myofascial Pain
• Fibromyalgia

Who is this book written for?

This book is written for people who have pain, practitioners who treat those in pain, and students of medicine and other healing arts.

This book is for people who care about their bodies, and are willing to participate in their healing, or maintaining their body through old age.

This book teaches about myofascial trigger points (muscle knots) and their pain patterns. Trigger points in muscles and fascia are part of almost every pain condition--no matter whether the diagnosis is migraine, tension headache, repetitive strain injury, torn rotator cuff, spinal stenosis, facet syndrome, sciatica, or plantar fascitis. Trigger points cause myofascial pain. In addition to pain, these trigger points also cause numbness, tingling, burning, and cramping symptoms. Learn how to treat the trigger points that are involved in causing your pain pattern, and you can lessen and treat your own pain. Hopefully you will be less dependent on pain medications. Chronic pain from old sports injuries can also often be improved using the techniques described in this book. Learn how to prepare your body before activity, and then treat yourself afterwards. Ice, braces, and OTC meds are not the only answer for the aging athlete.

This book reveals the medical information that will allow people to understand how knots in their muscles cause a major part of their pain, and then how to lessen or stop this pain. Illustrations teach pain patterns and treatment. This understanding will make it possible for people to control their pain in a different way. No longer will they be dependent soley on medication.

Practitioners who will find this book useful include medical physicians, chiropractors, naturopaths, myotherapists, massage therapists, and rolfers.

Students attending schools that teach about treating pain patients will find the information in this book extremely useful.

The stretching and massage techniques illustrated and described in this book have been very helpful for many people with fibromyalgia. Much of the pain of fibromyalgia is myofascial pain from trigger points in muscle and fascia.

How is the book organized?

The Picture Index provides a quick way to look up the location of a pain pattern, and learn which muscles typically cause this pain. From this index, you are directed to the pages that teach how to massage the muscles and how to stretch them.

The Map Chapter teaches about pain in each area of the body, and which muscles cause pain in these areas. The basic anatomy of each muscle is also discussed and illustrated.

The Stretch Chapter teaches how to stretch the muscles. The details include the starting position, stretch motion, precautions, and recovery to return to normal posture without re-tightening the stretched muscle.

The Ball Chapter teaches how to massage the muscles with a rubber ball. These techniques help detoxify the muscles, increase blood flow and nutrition, and inactivate the trigger points.

What do experts say about this book?

"Dr. Blatman takes complex medical information and presents it in an easy to understand format that also incorporates his compassion, humor and uniquely personal approach."
Lynne Matallana, President and Co-Founder, National Fibromyalgia Association

"This invaluable resource clearly explains what is essential to treat and prevent one of the most common causes of chronic pain."
Dr. Marinelli, naturopathic doctor.

The Blatman Pain Clinic treats adults and children.

Hal S. Blatman, MD is the founder and medical director of the Blatman Pain Clinic, and a nationally recognized specialist in myofascial pain. He is board certified in both Pain Management and Occupational and Environmental Medicine. In Cincinnati, Dr. Blatman leads a team of specialists and practitioners committed to helping you achieve better health and vitality by treating and eliminating your pain.
 
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