Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #720789 in Books
• Published on: 2001-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 233 pages

From the Inside Flap
If you suffer headache, backache, carpal tunnel syndrome, arthritis, or any of several dozen other clinically diagnosed pain conditions, permanent relief may be as close as your own fingers.

In this groundbreaking book, Bernard Schatz, P.T., a licensed physical therapist with more than forty years of clinical experience, teaches you how to relieve body pain in hours through a unique technique of soft tissue manipulation. He shows you how to self-treat 37 different types of body pain using simple but precise techniques. And he presents 50 actual case studies of men and women with pain who freed themselves of muscle discomfort using the soft tissue manipulation approach.

The pain-relieving techniques found in "Soft Tissue Massage" are user-friendly, easily applied, and clearly explained--ideal for many pany sufferers who have found no relief from conventional treatments.

According to Schatz, all types of pain share a common cause--injured tissues. When your muscles suffer an injury or trauma that goes unrelieved, they contract and get irritated, then sore, then rigid, then full of thick, ropy, scarlike fibers, and the result is chronic pain.

"Unless the underlying cause is dealt with, symptom, after sympton will continually appear," says Schatz.

Use the techniques presented in "Soft Tissue Massage" to address the underlying cause of your discomfort. Heal your body yourself and live free of chronic pain.

About the Author
Bernard Schatz, P.T., has been in physical therapy practice since 1957. Schatz supervised the Cardiovascular Research Laboratory at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles, and has worked as staff physical therapist and supervisor in acute hospitals, extended care facilities, and nursing homes. In addition to maintaining a successful private practice, he owned a large rehabilitation company and served as the administrator of a home health agency. Schatz is also a talented artist, entertainer, satirist, and folk singer who has appeared on the Steve Allen and Regis Philbin shows. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.