The Frozen Shoulder Workbook: Trigger Point Therapy for Overcoming Pain & Regaining Range of Motion

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Customer Reviews:

This book is simply amazing! [Posted on 2008-09-12]
I live with chronic muscular pain from multiple sclerosis and bad posture from my office job. Often my back, neck and shoulders suffer the brunt of this pain, so much so that I have been debilitated for days at a time. Along with my theracane (which this book includes as part of some of the therapies, but by all means is NOT necessary at all) I can work on myself and eliminate the major pain almost instantly and the minor pains work themselves out usually within a day or two. This book has kept me from missing work and from staying crumpled on my couch curled up in a ball of pain. I LOVE this book. Thank you authors!

Excellent Results [Posted on 2008-10-12]
I would like to tell you how the Frozen Shoulder Workbook helped me overcome a painful but common illness with no surgery or manipulation under anesthesia. I found relief!
This past spring I fell while carrying a folding chair and bruised my ribs. Due to the rib pain I stopped my daily stretching and swimming. I was also under a lot of stress at work. The rib healed but I began to have arm pain on reaching down. One time when plugging in a power cord I had shooting pains in my shoulder and arm. (ten on a 1 to 10 pain scale) I returned to swimming and found it to be painful so I went to my primary doctor. She said it was bursitis and gave me an anti-inflammation drug and sent we to physical therapy. It got worse and my shoulder froze up. PT was no help and the pain got worse. X-rays showed a normal joint when I went to a shoulder specialist. He said it was bursitis and possible tendonitis. He gave me a cortisone shot in the shoulder and a prescription for a shoulder MRI, if it didn't resolve itself in a week. No relief from the shot and the MRI would have cost me US $195 out of pocket so I looked for an alternate plan. I went to a Chiropractor and I sent off for this book. The Chiropractor told me I should have come to him sooner before the shoulder froze up. I could not lift my arm over my head, work was very difficult and nighttime required sleeping pills and painkillers. My neck muscles on that side where very tight and the scapula (shoulder blade) was not moving. (I learned that the scapula must rotate 30 degrees for the arm to reach over the head completely.) Clair Davies book is excellent, I began using his techniques to massage my tight neck, chest, shoulder, and arm muscles. The first thing to improve was the pain. I found a great massage therapist to help me and the Chiropractor worked to free up the shoulder joint capsule by stretching after 15 minutes of icing the shoulder . The Trigger Point Therapy truly works if you follow this books instruction carefully. Work through chapter 5 and 6, massage with the book open. It is not an easy path but your diligent self-treatment will pay off (there are 24 muscles that help the shoulder move). Stay positive, work on standing up strait and reducing stress. Today I was able to hang from a chin up bar and pain is almost gone. I have resumed swimming and next week I will begin upper body strengthening exercises. One tip not in the book is that I suggest is to rest your shoulder completely one day per week, the following day you will see improved range of motion from the relaxed trigger points. Good Luck!

not for the everyday person [Posted on 2008-11-10]
I suffer from frozen shoulder and thought this book could help me. I think this book would be good for someone who is a PT or a doctor, but for the everyday person with no medical background no way.The reason I purchased the book was because they made it out to be easy reading, but it is far from that.

The Frozen Shoulder Workbook: Trigger Point Therapy for Overcoming Pain & Regaining Range of Motion (Purchased on 10/12/2008)  [Posted on 2008-11-19]
Wonderfull book!, I recomend to everybody, because is good for take care our shoulder. very good price, very good delivered

More than frozen shoulder [Posted on 2008-11-20]
Clair Davies wrote this guide as a follow-up to the Trigger Point Therapy Workbook. Although the title suggests a focus on frozen shoulder, it seems that Clair thought it wise to include some of the extra material that didn't fit in his first book. Other readers have noticed the depth of detail and encyclopedic reach of this book. Many have been frustrated by that, expecting to find a simple how-to guide that helps with their painful shoulder problem.

That information is in here. You just have to wade through it. If you give it the time, and practice what you see, the benefits are enormous, profound and far exceed your effort.

Clair Davies was a genius. Both his books are excellent and together they form a body of knowledge more people should be familiar with. More doctors and physiotherapists need to study these books. Both are essential in your home medical library.

As a victim of frozen shoulder, I am familiar with the confusion and concern that accompanies the disease. Most people with frozen shoulder are misdiagnosed at first, told they have tendonitis, bursitis, rotator cuff damage, or impingement, until the shoulder actually freezes up several months into the disease. Then they are poorly advised, instructed about invisible "adhesions", blamed for their problem, told scary stories how they could permanently lose their flexibility, and then tortured with unnecessary stretching or worse, violent medical procedures that tear the shoulder joint to make it loose. Crazy stuff in this day and age. Patient beware.

Scientific and rational advice like the kind Clair Davies laid out here will help you through your pain. So will the faith that your illness will go away as mysteriously as it appeared, without any intervention at all. In most cases, you can simply ride your frozen shoulder out.

Clair Davies was your friend. Buy his books.

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