Forever Painless - (Aging Backwards) by Miranda Esmonde-White (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

End chronic pain--for good--with this practical guide from the PBS personality behind Classical Stretch and author of the New York Times bestseller Aging Backwards.

Chronic pain is the most common cause of long-term disability in the United States. Twenty percent of American adults accept back spasms, throbbing joints, arthritis aches, and other physical pain as an inevitable consequence of aging, illness, or injury. But the human body is not meant to endure chronic pain. Miranda Esmonde-White has spent decades helping professional athletes, ballet dancers, and Olympians overcome potentially career-ending injuries and guiding MS patients and cancer survivors toward pain-free mobility. Now, in Forever Painless, she shows everyone how to heal their aching bodies and live pain free.

The root of nearly all pain is movement--or lack thereof. We need to move our bodies to refresh, nourish, and revitalize our cells. Without physical activity, our cells become stagnant and decay, accelerating the aging process and causing pain. People who suffer chronic pain often become sedentary, afraid that movement and activity will make things worse, when just the opposite is true: movement is essential to healing. In Forever Painless, Miranda provides detailed instructions for gentle exercise designed to ease discomfort in the feet and ankles, knees, hips, back, and neck--allowing anyone to live happier, healthier, and pain-free no matter their age.

From the Back Cover

The leading cause of premature aging and long-term disability in the United States is chronic pain, an affliction suffered by one in five adults. Health-care expenses associated with chronic pain are skyrocketing, and along with the pain comes an increased risk of other serious health issues, including depression, loss of mobility, and opioid addiction.

The sad fact is that most of us have come to accept some form of chronic pain--whether it's throbbing joints, arthritis aches, or back pain--as a normal, inevitable part of getting older. But the truth is, there is nothing "normal" about chronic pain; the human body is designed to be pain-free.

Now, for the first time, there is a scientifically based, drug-free solution to chronic pain. In Forever Painless, Miranda Esmonde-White--the PBS fitness personality who has spent decades working with everyday people and high-performance athletes alike, helping them become pain-free--shares her program for healing chronic pain once and for all.

People who suffer from chronic pain often become sedentary. They're fearful that activity will be too painful to endure and may even worsen their condition. In fact, just the opposite is true: movement is essential to healing. In Forever Painless, Miranda explains how pain functions in the body and then leads readers through a series of simple, gentle exercises designed to end chronic pain for good.

With workouts targeted to permanently heal many types of musculoskeletal pain--including back, neck and shoulders, knees, feet and ankles, and hips--Miranda offers an all-natural solution to chronic pain that can be achieved in as little as thirty minutes a day.