Your Body Book

Your Body Book helps you stay healthy and heal when injured or in pain. It provides information about your body, specifically the musculoskeletal system — muscles, bones, and joints. This self-help health care book includes a head-to-toe review of the body, identifies problems and solutions to decrease pain and swelling, offers health tips and illustrated exercises to restore motion, improve strength, and promote healing. The more you know, the more successfully you can manage your health and health care cost$. Not only is “The head bone connected to the neck bone . . .” but every system in the body is interconnected. Your physical body is intimately related to your mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. With decreased pain, fear, worry, and anxiety you can have improved health and well-being. This book is written for you by an orthopedic manual physical therapist, trained in assessing and treating musculoskeletal problems, with over 33 years of hands-on experience. She is passionate about empowering people, through education, to successfully manage their health. The material in this book is based on the author's knowledge and practice and is intended to help the general public. It provides general health information; consult health care professionals with specific medical conditions.