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The Psoas Solution

The Practitioner's Guide to Rehabilitation, Corrective Exercise, and Training for Improved Function

By: Evan Osar

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The Psoas Solution

The Practitioner's Guide to Rehabilitation, Corrective Exercise, and Training for Improved Function

By: Evan Osar

The first book to comprehensively discuss the function of the psoas in posture, movement, and exercise, The Psoas Solution identifies the functional anatomy, biomechanics, and motor control of the psoas and its role in core and hip stabilization. Integrating research with clinical experience, Evan Osar identifies the psoas's role on the hip, pelvis, and low back and demonstrates how to incorporate the psoas into functional movement patterns including squatting, lunging, and bending. The Psoas Solution includes corrective and functional exercise progressions for improving and integrating the psoas into daily activities. Health and fitness professionals will find this a valuable resource full of applicable strategies and exercises to incorporate into current rehabilitation or training programs. Abundantly illustrated with full-color images throughout, this book also provides most complete review on the relevant research on the psoas available. For years the psoas has been a muscle mired in controversy. It has been linked to common postural and movement dysfunction including anterior pelvic tilt, hyperlordosis of the lumbar spine, and low back pain. Strategies to improve posture and reduce pain have primarily involved stretching the psoas and strengthening its antagonist, the glutes. However, recent clinical research has revealed that the psoas is much more than a simple hip flexor and plays an integral role in both posture and movement. This professional treatment manual for health care practitioners and students gives an overview of the ways that non-optimal use of the psoas can affect breathing, posture, and movement. It outlines specific treatment strategies that enable patients to develop awareness and utilization of the psoas muscle to achieve three-dimensional breathing and improve balance and body mechanics.

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North Atlantic Books

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1623171369

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Functional Anatomy of the Pilates Core

An Illustrated Guide to a Safe and Effective Core Training Program

By: Evan Osar,Marylee Bussard

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Functional Anatomy of the Pilates Core

An Illustrated Guide to a Safe and Effective Core Training Program

By: Evan Osar,Marylee Bussard

This book is the first to illustrate the essential connection between the functional anatomy of the body’s core and its application during Pilates’ fundamental core exercises. Focusing on the inherent potential of the human body to stabilize and move, Dr. Evan Osar and Marylee Bussard combine the most current research around core stabilization with six fundamental Pilates principles to offer simple, easy-to-use strategies for relieving discomfort and improving pain-free movement. With more than 290 full-color illustrations, Functional Anatomy of the Pilates Core provides both Pilates practitioners and professional teachers with a comprehensive understanding of how the core functions and how stabilization helps promote health and proper movement patterns through the development of balanced muscles, joint alignment, and core control. The authors apply current research on neuroplasticity, the brain's capacity to reorganize itself by developing new neuronal connections, and on the function of fascia, the matrix-like connective tissue of the body, to explain the six fundamental principles of Pilates—Centering, Concentration, Control, Precision, Breath, and Flow. They show how to avoid muscle imbalances, chronic tightness, and pain by incorporating the principles of functional anatomy during exercise. Readers learn how to: • Achieve the alignment, breathing, and control required for developing optimal posture and movement • Alleviate non-optimal habits that relate to common postural dysfunction, muscle imbalances, and chronic tightness • Integrate the fundamental Pilates exercises in order to develop a more stable core and eliminate the risks of common injuries while accomplishing one’s health and fitness goals

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The Psoas Solution

The Practitioner's Guide to Rehabilitation, Corrective Exercise, and Training for Improved Function

By: Evan Osar

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A Hundred Thousand White Stones

An Ordinary Tibetan's Extraordinary Journey

By: Kunsang Dolma,Evan Denno

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A Hundred Thousand White Stones

An Ordinary Tibetan's Extraordinary Journey

By: Kunsang Dolma,Evan Denno

A Hundred Thousand White Stones is one young Tibetan woman's fearlessly told story of longing and change. Kunsang Dolma writes with unvarnished candor of the hardships she experienced as a girl in Tibet, violations as a refugee nun in India, and struggles as an immigrant and new mother in America. Yet even in tribulation, she finds levity and never descends to self-pity. We watch in wonder as her unlikely choices and remarkable persistence bring her into ever-widening circles, finding love and a family in the process, and finally bringing her back to her childhood home. A Hundred Thousand White Stones offers an honest assessment of what is gained in pursuing life in the developed world and what is lost.

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Simon and Schuster

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1614290903

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Functional Anatomy of the Pilates Core

An Illustrated Guide to a Safe and Effective Core Training Program

By: Evan Osar,Marylee Bussard

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An Illustrated Guide to a Safe and Effective Core Training Program

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The Psoas Solution

The Psoas Solution

Functional Anatomy of the Pilates Core

Functional Anatomy of the Pilates Core

The Psoas Solution

The Psoas Solution

A Hundred Thousand White Stones

A Hundred Thousand White Stones

Functional Anatomy of the Pilates Core

Functional Anatomy of the Pilates Core

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