Release Your Pain

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Summary: A Very Useful Tool!
Review: As a Massage Therapist and an Active Release Technique provider I find this book invaluable as a learning tool for my clients. Written in a style that is easy to understand it explains the mystery of repetitive strain injuries; how they happen and how to treat and avoid their reoccurrence. The exercises in the book are clear, effective and simple to do and act as a reminder to clients.
I use it all the time as an adjunct to my treatment.

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Summary: Great Book
Review: Excellent book... this book has really helped me deal with my RSI problems. Concise and easy to read with excellent exercises.

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Summary: Excellent
Review: I found this book very very helpful. I would recommend it to anyone.

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Summary: ART book is a fraud
Review: I read this book and it gives no information about how do you do this technique. I have been to numerous frauds for my soft tissue problems and this book adds to my list. In fact it gives a bad start
to someone who may want to get ART done on them. Sometimes people want to make a quick buck by writing a book in the hopes that some sucker will fall for it!

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Summary: Patients Perspective
Review: Many of my patients have told me that this book is a very helpful tool in helping them to understand why the ART treatments that we provide work so effectively. My patients have found this book to be very easy to read and understand. They have unanimously given this book great reviews.

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Summary: Nothing more than an overpriced brochure
Review: Release Your Pain is a book about Active Release Therapy (ART), a soft-tissue procedure created, developed, and patented by Dr. Leahy.

ART as a procedure is amazing. I have computer related Repetitive Strain Injury, and, slowly but surely, am getting better. It has literally changed my life. This book, however, is useless.

I bought this book in hopes of better understanding and learning ART techniques to do on myself since my bills are piling up and I haven't worked in nearly a year. I was hoping to be able to better mimic the work that my practitioner does on me, since he can't feel my pain.

Much to my dismay, 15 pages define what Repetitive Stress Injuries are, another 15 describe ART. The rest is devoted to 2 things:

1) Identifications and definitions of specific injuries
2) Stretching and strengthening exercises you should do in conjunction with ART.

Not a single page describes how to do ART on yourself. Since you're forced to see an ART practitioner, these people are also supposed to give you a workout regimen, thus making this book redundant.

There is something to be said for seeing a medical professional and having him determine and fix your problems. It's just a smart thing to do. Unfortunately, my ART Professional (as listed in the ART website), has had me come back 20 times when ART is supposed to work much quicker than that. Either he's not much of a professional, or he's looking to drain my money like everybody else.

If someone is so bold as to patent a life-renewing technique, charge a few thousand for certification yearly, and have this useless book out in your honor, I suggest you get on the stick and make sure your practitioners deserve the certification.

Quite simply, the stretching and strengthening exercises listed in this book have a greater possibility for injury than ART does, so legal ramifications of self-injury due to ART are, at best, extremely minimal.

The previous reviewers gave this book 5 stars, one of whom gives the book out to all his patients. Interesting considering it just came out a month ago, and none of the major bookstores have it. To me, it's little more than an ART brochure.

Buyer beware.

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Summary: Informative and I'm now pain free
Review: This book gave me the initiative to look further into chiropractic treatments using ART and i am now pain free from years of off and on again pain in my back. Thanks for writing a book to inform the public to be pro-active in their care and live a pain free life.

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Summary: Worth the read
Review: This book is easy to read and understand. Excellent drawings and photographs. I recommend this book highly.

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Summary: Great Book
Review: This book lead gave me the solution I needed. ART has helped me resolve my CTS. This book is a wonderful resource for anyone. I give this book top marks, thank you for writing it.

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Summary: Excellent
Review: This is a great adjunct to the ART treatments that I received. I am very happy with the procedure and the book, and I am not an easy sell. I was surprised to read the review that wanted you to teach them the technique, kind of like buy my degree for 12.95 on the internet. Your book does exactly what it is suppose to do, gives me a viable solution and provides me with the follow up information I need. Excellent resource.