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Pain Free for Women: The Revolutionary Program for Ending Chronic Pain
“Women today not only deserve but should expect a pain-free, active lifestyle, no matter their age, no matter their previous experience.”
Pain Free for Women
In his famed San Diego clinic, Pete Egoscue has taught women of all ages and from all walks of life how to use the Egoscue Method for safe, effective, and permanent relief from chronic pain without prescription painkillers, physical therapy, or invasive surgery. Now he shares his specially adapted “Pain Free” program for women to use at home.
Whether you suffer from back or neck pain, joint discomfort or sore knees, or need more stamina, improved balance, and extra strength, here is a revolutionary and proven approach to self-care that promises optimal health through a simple set of exercises that will transform the way you move and feel — forever!
Egoscue shows women how to take back their bodies by recovering and restoring a precious health asset — full, free, flexible motion — that he believes has been drastically reduced by our modern lifestyle.
As Egoscue explains, motion not only develops a woman’s body but also maintains and rejuvenates it. Yet as her motion-deprived muscles disengage and weaken, it is common for a woman’s body to lose alignment, leading to repetitive stress injuries, persistent pain, and general bad health. Even the simplest activities — how she sits, stands, walks, works, lifts, and sleeps — can trigger problems.
Focusing on proper alignment, posture, and muscle engagement, Egoscue provides simple but powerful techniques to restore flexibility and function while at the same time boosting energy, revving up the immune system, even raising the body’s metabolic rate.
The remarkable “E-cises” included within have also been linked to improved ability to fight disease, cope with aging, and recover from accidents and injuries. The “miracle” cure Egoscue offers is, simply, correct motion.
Organized by the seasons of a woman’s life, Pain Free for Women pays particular attention to age-specific concerns such as puberty, childbirth, and menopause, as well as special issues such as arthritis, PMS, and depression.
At the same time, Egoscue shows how women can build a framework of healthy movement that will prevent illness and maintain pain-free good health throughout the journey of life.
According to Egoscue, reversing the effects of poor musculoskeletal fitness provides astonishing benefits, including:
•Better balance, posture, and breathing, as well as increased resiliency
•Effective and safe weight management
•Healthy bone density and visual acuity
•Heightened sex drive
•Delayed symptoms of aging
•Peace of mind and general tranquility
Extensively illustrated to demonstrate proper placement, posture, and movement, Pain Free for Women offers women of every age the possibility of feeling better than ever before.
Pain Free for Women
In his famed San Diego clinic, Pete Egoscue has taught women of all ages and from all walks of life how to use the Egoscue Method for safe, effective, and permanent relief from chronic pain without prescription painkillers, physical therapy, or invasive surgery. Now he shares his specially adapted “Pain Free” program for women to use at home.
Whether you suffer from back or neck pain, joint discomfort or sore knees, or need more stamina, improved balance, and extra strength, here is a revolutionary and proven approach to self-care that promises optimal health through a simple set of exercises that will transform the way you move and feel — forever!
Egoscue shows women how to take back their bodies by recovering and restoring a precious health asset — full, free, flexible motion — that he believes has been drastically reduced by our modern lifestyle.
As Egoscue explains, motion not only develops a woman’s body but also maintains and rejuvenates it. Yet as her motion-deprived muscles disengage and weaken, it is common for a woman’s body to lose alignment, leading to repetitive stress injuries, persistent pain, and general bad health. Even the simplest activities — how she sits, stands, walks, works, lifts, and sleeps — can trigger problems.
Focusing on proper alignment, posture, and muscle engagement, Egoscue provides simple but powerful techniques to restore flexibility and function while at the same time boosting energy, revving up the immune system, even raising the body’s metabolic rate.
The remarkable “E-cises” included within have also been linked to improved ability to fight disease, cope with aging, and recover from accidents and injuries. The “miracle” cure Egoscue offers is, simply, correct motion.
Organized by the seasons of a woman’s life, Pain Free for Women pays particular attention to age-specific concerns such as puberty, childbirth, and menopause, as well as special issues such as arthritis, PMS, and depression.
At the same time, Egoscue shows how women can build a framework of healthy movement that will prevent illness and maintain pain-free good health throughout the journey of life.
According to Egoscue, reversing the effects of poor musculoskeletal fitness provides astonishing benefits, including:
•Better balance, posture, and breathing, as well as increased resiliency
•Effective and safe weight management
•Healthy bone density and visual acuity
•Heightened sex drive
•Delayed symptoms of aging
•Peace of mind and general tranquility
Extensively illustrated to demonstrate proper placement, posture, and movement, Pain Free for Women offers women of every age the possibility of feeling better than ever before.
- GenresHealthNonfictionFitness
480 pages, Paperback
First published January 8, 2002
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February 25, 2012
The exercises in this book seem to be good, and I have no doubt that they bring many people relief from back pain. However, the author is more than a little crazy. He seems to believe, among other things, that drug-resistant epidemics of TB could be cured if we all just had better posture...because good posture will improve your immune system, and then you can fight off TB... This is beyond silly.
In Egoscue’s philosophy, everything from C-sections to cancer to ADD could be eliminated if we all just stood up straight and didn’t walk with our toes pointing out. He also has a strangely rose-tinted view of the past. He constantly talks about how much better everything was 50-100 years ago when women did more house-work and such. He ignores the fact that lifespans have increased, that fewer women die in childbirth, that people in our grandparents’ generation also wrestled with chronic pain and some of them didn’t make it. He focuses on people who lived long lives, ignoring the fact that many people didn’t.
Egoscue does kick up the occasional insight or good point, but it’s so obscured by logical fallacy and bad science that his prose is painful to read. Skip to the exercises and see if they help you. Ignore the rest.
In Egoscue’s philosophy, everything from C-sections to cancer to ADD could be eliminated if we all just stood up straight and didn’t walk with our toes pointing out. He also has a strangely rose-tinted view of the past. He constantly talks about how much better everything was 50-100 years ago when women did more house-work and such. He ignores the fact that lifespans have increased, that fewer women die in childbirth, that people in our grandparents’ generation also wrestled with chronic pain and some of them didn’t make it. He focuses on people who lived long lives, ignoring the fact that many people didn’t.
Egoscue does kick up the occasional insight or good point, but it’s so obscured by logical fallacy and bad science that his prose is painful to read. Skip to the exercises and see if they help you. Ignore the rest.
April 25, 2016
Not the best written book but this method is changing my life. I'm 8 weeks in and feel better than I have in years!
October 4, 2020
Some wacko logic causing major eye rolling, but enough encouraging, idealistic theories on chronic pain management not requiring surgery or lifetime of drugs, to be enjoyable.
February 13, 2013
Fabulous...life changing, yogic
October 21, 2023
It strikes a chord
I'm a man but I bought this as a download as the major text Pain Free didn't seem available as a download. I find it simple sincere and 3 days in, I've noticed very positive benefits. As I read it it came across as totally the real deal and a game changer. Thanks Mr Egoscue.
I'm a man but I bought this as a download as the major text Pain Free didn't seem available as a download. I find it simple sincere and 3 days in, I've noticed very positive benefits. As I read it it came across as totally the real deal and a game changer. Thanks Mr Egoscue.
February 1, 2020
Great companion book for Pain Free. How to get your body aligned, and keep it that way.
June 8, 2021
Best book to help your body function as it is meant to
January 4, 2022
What I've been looking for!
So much of the information in here just simply makes sense.
This will be on my permanent health book shelf.
So much of the information in here just simply makes sense.
This will be on my permanent health book shelf.
January 20, 2009
Great book for all women to read! Really explains how pain and injury in adulthood stems from dysfunction in the musculoskeletal system as far back as infancy. Great book to help understand how to understand your body better. This book addresses posture at all stages of life including:infancy,adolesence, adult, pregnancy, senior years. Being certified through Egoscue, I practice what I preach and have watched the method work time and time again to correct dysfunction in bodies and eliminate pain & injury.
September 20, 2008
Wonderful alternative (and addition to) standard pain treatments. The whole concept of "give a man a fish" or "teach a man to fish" certainly applies to this book. You can come up with temporary solutions or surgeries that help or (using this book) get to the root of the problem, fix it, and make your whole body healthier. It's definitely a time commitment to do the exercizes, but it's well worth it!
May 2, 2012
This book is awesome! So why not give it 5 stars? The format for actually doing the exercises is not ideal. The exercise pages should be tear out or come in poster form or something. The binding of the book and thus the integrity will be severely damaged over time from flattening it out to perform the exercises.
I think that all women should read this and then start moving! (Thanks to my cousin's wife for sharing this with me during my back pain months; I no longer have pain.)
I think that all women should read this and then start moving! (Thanks to my cousin's wife for sharing this with me during my back pain months; I no longer have pain.)
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December 11, 2008Someone very dear to me recommended this book, not because i have pain, but because i wanted to accomplish something... i'll let you know how it turns out.
August 24, 2008
This should be required reading—it just makes so much sense. And who knew a (for all intents and purposes) medical text could be so incredibly interesting?!
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June 13, 2012I feel like I can't rate this yet because I haven't really done it yet to see if it works. I really need to get on the ball and just DO the diet and things he recommends to see if it helps at all!
December 28, 2013
so simple to be pain free if you can do what the book says...
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