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NCHPAD Book Corner: Healthy Martial Arts


Healthy Martial Arts
Bookspan, J. (2006)
Neck and Back Pain Sports Medicine
To order, go to http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0972121447/sr=8-1/qid=1147879728/ref=sr_1_1?%5Fencoding=UTF8

Dubbed the "The St. Jude of the Joints" by a Harvard Medical School clinician due to her greatly successful rehabilitation techniques, Dr. Jolie Bookspan is a black belt in Shotokan karate, an undefeated full contact Muay Thai fighter, a former military research physiologist, professor of anatomy, and a sports medicine specialist. Paralyzed in a non-fighting accident, she rehabbed herself using the methods described in this book.

Bookspan describes the martial arts lifestyle as "a system of learning how to live your regular life...it is thinking and acting in healthy patterns throughout daily life, seeking out knowledge and living a life of strong body and mind through cheerful, healthy movement in daily activities". Each chapter in this book shows how to develop a "part of the whole" and make all of these parts work together. Included are chapters on strength and specificity; functional conditioning; core strengthening and spine and hip positioning; flexibility and stretching; cardiovascular conditioning; mind stimulation and conditioning; balance; breathing; good nutrition, including nutrition for specific health conditions; injury prevention; performance enhancers and gender differences.

This book is a great resource for those who would like to increase their strength, flexibility and level of fitness and learn how to hold and move their bodies in order to prevent injury in both daily and fitness related activities. There are many photographs demonstrating how to perform movements and stretches which feature men and women of various ages, shapes and sizes. The book is also good for those who would like to explore health as both a mind and body experience.


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