Pain Free at Your PC
by Pete Egoscue, Roger Gittines
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Book Reviews of Pain Free at Your PC
Book Review: Back to school !!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
Ok....where do I start! This book contains the worst grammar I've ever seen. The content is average, if your over 10 years old I'm sure you will have seen the exersises else where. Back to the grammar!!!! The book uses annoying ------ everywhere.. What's the deal with that? The author tries to be hip 'n cool by referencing techincal software, if you don't know what it is then don't write about it! What the hell is Visual C+++ Basic?
The book is split into 3 sections, the first for a person who uses a computer not so often, the second for the average user and thirdly for "Super" users. Being the latter I found the book telling me that half of the content was not applicable to me. Skipping half a book I just purchased does not make me happy. I'm sure that these guy's know alot about pain but please, please, please get someone else to write a book for you. I found myself in more pain after reading a chapter of this book!
Book Review: Good advice
Summary: 4 Stars
I read this book several years ago when I was having major tendonitis in my arms that threatened my ability to work at a computer. It had gotten to the point where I was very limited in ability and in a lot of pain day and night.
I started doing the exercises in Chapter 6 - Ecises for those in Pain. I can tell you that they are not easy but they do work. When I do "Static wall" I can feel the knots in my upper back just melt away. The only problem I have with doing the exercises is the length of time they take. But taking time to improve our health is a choice we make for ourselves and probably most of us should take more time than we do. I did recover in large part to these exercises and a new concept of how the body compensates for poor posture. I don't do them now like I should but if I have pain and return to even some of the exercises - it does make a difference.
Book Review: It really works -- but only if you take the time!
Summary: 4 Stars
Egoscue says that most chronic pain is caused by poor posture and poor body mechanics (e.g., moving wrong). The solution -- a set of stretches that teach you good posture and good body mechanics. These "E-cises" are gentle and easy to perform. They do take a bit of time -- more than an hour for people who use PCs all day -- but the results are amazing. The biggest problem with this book can only addressed by the reader: this advice does you no good unless you lay down and do the E-cises. Don't let the lengthy time daunt you though -- the time required shrinks after a few weeks, and the relief is well worth it. The 5-minute stretches are helpful, too. The reviewers who didn't like this book all sound like they never actually tried the E-cises.
I'd give this book 5-stars, but I must in honesty admit that Egoscue's book "Pain Free" is superior.
Book Review: Good but completely ommits the hands
Summary: 3 Stars
When all you have is hammer everything starts looking like a nail. That's how this book approaches the healing and fixing the pain in your hands. Author has good tips on how to stretch and help with back, neck and shoulder pain but for hands he has nothing. Instead he says your problem is not with hands rather with shoulders or hips, since that is all he knows about. Really?
For hand pain this book will not help since it does not address it or even acknowledge it as something that needs to be addressed. I recommend
"The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief" and "
End Your Carpal Tunnel Pain Without Surgery"
Depending on level of your injury though neither of these might really provide pain free PC experience although they will help.
Book Review: 'Works Like Magic!!!!"
Summary: 5 Stars
'Pain Free at your PC' is simply AMAZING!! Quite frankly, I have NO IDEA why it works so well but, I am sooo grateful to Pete Esoscue for writing and sharing this information with the rest of us! I had agonizing shoulder, shoulder blade,chest and neck pain for the last several years. The computer only agravated the problem rendering me sometimes in agony just trying to type. Let me tell you that after only THREE sessions of doing the exercises in 'Pain Free at your PC' I don't have any of those pains anymore! I am sleeping soundly every night and feel full of energy and invigorated! Wow, what a relief to know that I don't have to go the surgical route now! If you are in PAIN, do yourself a favor and get this book ASAP! THANK YOU, Pete Esoscue for your amazing talent!!!