Margaret Jacobsen is just about to step into the bright future she's worked for so hard and so long: a new dream job, a fiancé she adores, and the promise of a picture-perfect life just around the corner. Then, suddenly, on what should have been one of the happiest days of her life, everything she worked for is taken away in a brief, tumultuous moment. In the hospital and forced to face the possibility that nothing will ever be the same again, Maggie...

"Dr. Kathryn Schmitz overturned years of entrenched dogma and conventional wisdom that told breast cancer survivors to avoid upper body exercise with the publication of two ground-breaking scientific papers in the most prestigious medical journals in the world, the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association. In the ensuing decade, Dr. Schmitz has made it her personal mission to use exercise for cancer prevention...

"Why are some octogenarians competitive athletes while others struggle to walk up the stairs? It isn't luck. It's orthopedic science. If you're tired of doctors telling you that an injury will prevent you from playing the sports you enjoy, you'll love Dr. Kevin R. Stone's Play Forever. All great athletes get injured. Only the best of them use those injuries to come back to their sport better--fitter, faster, and stronger than before. Through Dr. Stone's...

"Un video instructivo sobre el yoga como un enfoque holistico para la artritis. Yoga para la Salud es una herramienta que to ayudara en el proceso evolutivo de tu salud. Una alternativa de prevencion hacia el exito de un bienestar. El Yoga como sistema de terapia integral actua sobre la artritis a traves de movimientos simples aunque continuos, lo que aumenta la circulacion en las articulaciones favorciendo la prevencion y disminucion de la rigidez."--Container. Yoga...

"So what if Sadie hears talking dead animals and a strange, comforting male voice in her head? The therapist insists these are just symptoms of PTSD. It makes sense considering that she hid under the bed and watched as her best friends were slaughtered. But the murders were seventeen years ago, back when her name was Sabrina. Now, she's Sadie: a perfectly normal 29-year-old. She works as a physical therapist assistant and lifts weights with her boyfriend,...

"Trigger point therapy is one of the fastest-growing and most effective pain therapies in the world. Medical doctors, chiropractors, physical therapists, and massage therapists are all beginning to use this technique to relieve patients' formerly undiagnosable muscle and joint pain, both conditions that studies have shown to be the cause of nearly 25 percent of all doctor visits.This book addresses the problem of myofascial trigger points--tiny contraction...

Winner of multiple audience awards, States of Grace intimately captures the profound transformation of a revered physician and her family in the wake of a life-changing accident. For Dr. Grace Dammann, a pioneering AIDS specialist who was honored by the Dalai Lama, a routine commute across the Golden Gate Bridge turned tragic when another driver crashed head on into her car. After seven weeks in a coma and a dozen surgeries, Grace miraculously awakened...

The inspirational story of world champion boxer Vinny Pazienza, who, after a near-fatal car crash, which left him not knowing if he'd ever walk again, made one of sports' most incredible comebacks.