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Developed at the YWCA in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, GENTLE YOGA is a complete and practical guide for beginners and people with special needs, such as those with arthritis, stroke damage, or multiple sclerosis, and for those in wheelchairs. But it is also for those who want gentle, low-impact exercize to improve and maintain health. Clear, how-to instructions for yoga along with 135 illustrations, plus discussions on nutrition, stress management, breathing, and positive thinking.

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Gentle is a strong presence in this book.

This book shows people who aren't flexible or impaired that anyone can do YOGA. It has unique quotes placed between chapters to inspire. Poses are shown, then modifications are pictured some are actually photos, others black and white drawings. I viewed this book, while in the hospital, it was helpful in regaining my focus on health and exercise.

The book is unique in it's style; It is very descriptive and encouraging to anyone to try and receive the benefits that YOGA offers.

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terrific book

This book was recommended to me by my yoga teacher and its terrific. It shows a variety of postures and explains their benefits. Having been recently diagnosed with MS I was looking for information on things I could do to help myself in addition to the conventional medicines and this book had reference to MS in it and how yoga can benefit those with certain diseases. The pictures are great as are the explainations. I highly recommend this book

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1. ISBN13: 9781932603774
2. Condition: NEW
3. Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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A Wonderful Reference

First of all, this is the real deal. These are the folks who do spinal cord work at the Mayo Clinic. The book is aimed at a general audience but as an RN with a number of years of neuro experience I learned a thing or two. If you are running a spinal rehab center and are not using this book you are not doing the job right.
The book is divided into five main sections beginning with an introduction which describes the team that will be dealing with the injury, the normal anatomy of the spinal cord and its function. It then takes a close look at the types of spinal cord injuries. This section and indeed the entire book are copiously illustrated with drawings that I wish I would have had in training.
Section two covers the changes in the body following an injury divided into first the internal organs then the skin, muscle, and bone and finally the circulation and body regulation. This is a hands on review dealing with problems and how they should be prevented and dealt with.
Section three is on sexuality and fertility. This is an area that many textbooks sort of skip over with a few lines. There is a full and straightforward discussion of the sexual aspects of spinal injury. The effects, the problems and the solutions.
Section Four deals with the strategies for overcoming the new boundaries of life with a cord injury. It is a wonderfully comprehensive guide that covers everything from the law to conflict management with your caregiver. There are check list and work sheets and real world tools to solve problems with. I was hugely impressed by this section and the amount of information it conveyed.
Section Five is titled Living Fully with a Spinal Cord Injury and it is a guide to an active life one that is different from the life before injury but not one whit less fulfilling in its potential.
A number of sections round out the book including a section on clinical trials a list of resources and a very good Glossary.
Over all this is best one volume book on spinal cord injury I have seen in over 25 years of nursing. I cannot recommend it enough.


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A must for any coping with this difficult situation

The spine is one fo the most important things in the human body. "Mayo Clinic Guide to Living with a Spinal Cord Injury" is a health guide for those who have suffered one of these traumatic injuries. Covering how to best deal with the injury to avoid causing greater injury or pain to oneself, and offering a huge lists of tips and advice on improving one's life through minor modifications to one's home and vehicle, daily care, and more, "May Clinic Guide to Living with a Spinal Cord Injury" brings down the full force of the Mayo Clinic's medical expertise. "Mayo Clinic Guide to Living with a Spinal Cord Injury" is a must for any coping with this difficult situation.

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Editorial Review :

No Whining is one man’s gut-wrenching yet humorous account of his eight-week journey through Craig Hospital’s Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) rehabilitation program. Paralyzed from the waist down, author Herb Tabak credits Craig’s “no nonsense” rehabilitation philosophy as a major factor in the progress he has made to date towards recovery.

Tabak relates the range of adventures he experienced while an SCI patient at Craig Hospital’s world-renowned spinal cord injury rehab program in plain, easy to understand language. In pointing out the reasons that make Craig Hospital unique, No Whining covers a diverse spectrum of topics, including:

• The Reality of Spinal Cord Injury
• The Craig Philosophy
• Physical Therapy
• Occupational Therapy
• Therapeutic Recreation
• Facing the Real World
• Craig Research
• Craig Graduates’ Stories
• Over 30 Photos/Illustrations

Customer Review :

Write On!

As a "graduate" of Craig Hospital myself, I felt that Mr. Tabak was writing about me. I had the good fortune of meeting the author in Feb. 2006 while I was in rehab at Craig following a car accident that broke my neck and bruised my spinal cord. I also live in Summit County, CO. Mr. Tabak's account of Craig's no-nonsense approach is right on. If you whine the therapists will keep pushing. That's why I too am walking today after only 6 weeks at Craig. I recommend this book to anyone who has experienced/knows someone who has a spinal cord injury/or is just interested in learning about Craig and SCI.

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1. ISBN13: 9780375701214
2. Condition: NEW
3. Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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Not as good as I hoped. Have better suggestion

I was disappointed in this book. A much better book on the same subject is "Look Up For Yes" by Julia Tavalaro. Her story started in 1966 when awareness of locked-in syndrome was much less known, and technology to help was not available but had to be invented and improvised for her. She wasn't even recognized as being anything other than brain dead for 6 years, but she was very aware of everything and tells us of the treatment she received and the remarkable story of her progress once this was discovered. She was 31 when she went into a coma for 7 months as a result of two strokes. She lived until she was 68.

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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

What a remarkable book. It's small, not lengthy at all, and I read it in one sitting. Then I read it again, and again! It it a totally amazing accomplishment by this doomed writer, this extraordinary, talented, charming, life-loving man, to have written this inspiring, touching book by blinking one eye at each correct letter shown him, and having it become this stunning account of a terrible tragedy. What a testament to his will and determination, to his intelligence and creativity. Anyone who reads this gorgeous book can NEVER indulge in self-pity ever again. I keep it on my bedside, and read randomly from it, from time to time, to remind myself how fortunate I really am.

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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

What an insight into a "mind" locked up and yet able to communicate,though almost to the point of unbelievable. The patience he had to blink out an alphabet, and the pain he must have felt at not being able to physically "do" what he wrote about had to be deep. It taught me how important patience and faith should be in each person's life.

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Honest and funny account of a horrible situation.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a testament to the power of the human imagination, which, after a stroke that leaves him completely paralyzed, is all the author has left. Bauby records his thoughts and dreams in little vignettes, each one a clever little slice of his daily life. Despite the depressing nature of his locked-in syndrome, Bauby is surprisingly funny (I laughed aloud several times), and his prose is light and jaunty. The book skips along at a brisk pace and can be read in one or two sittings. One comes away from the book admiring a man with such courage and mourning the fact that he is no longer with us.

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The last thing Samantha wanted when she entered Scot High School was to be noticed. On the other hand, Johnny Jay, another wheelchair student at Scot, was a fighter, battling to obtain accessible school washrooms for the both of them. To Johnny’s consternation, Sam refuses to help in his cause.

To Sam’s astonishment, the marathon committee refuses her entrance in a 26-mile marathon because of her wheelchair. It was only then that she began to see the frustrations Johnny felt. She was rudely bolted out of her dream world and into action.

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What can YOU do?

I must have read this book right after it was first published. I found it in my English teacher's classroom.
The problems in this book: inaccesible public schools, and inaccessible public events aren't supposed to happen anymore, even though everybody knows it does in some places.
Sam and Johnny approach their similar problems from different venues, and yet both are successful.
It is great to see a book like this has been republished.

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