Pain Free: A Revolutionary Method for Stopping Chronic Pain

After getting on for two decades, this book is still the best help any sufferer from the pain of a misaligned body can get without registering at an - expensive - Egoscue-certificated physiotherapy clinic.Most people's bodies are misaligned because of bad posture or because some muscle groups are overdeveloped and pull your body out of shape. This results in pain, and it can become very serious for some: slipped discs, RSI and a host of other bodily pains are caused by this imbalance, and whether you're an athlete or a couch potato, an office worker or a manual labourer, you're almost certain to have misalignment pain at some time of not permanently. The Egoscue Method is designed to persuade those muscles which should support the skeleton to take up this task again, and as often as not, the pain simply vanishes as your body gets back into proper alignment. People with deformities, serious arthritis or other incurable misalignments and pain won't get back a perfect body, but by following the Egoscue Method they can minimize both the pain and the problem. Egoscue-approved consultation and treatment are expensive (see www.egoscue.com for a quote), but this simple book can take you most of the way towards the pain relief you want, and maybe provide the full cure.'Pain Free' is simple to follow. It is organized by the kind of pain you have, and the instructions prescribed are graduated and simple to follow; most of them involve little more than keeping a bodily position while your muscles relax (so they're called e-cises as you don't need to exercise!) After reading the introduction, you just follow the most appropriate chapter for you, usually using a few simple props like a chair and a clear wall, then as the pain eases, add in other sections as suggested. When the pain's gone, there's a 'maintenance chapter' at the end to help you avoid a recurrence of the trouble.I'm now buying my fifth copy - I tend to lend them out and not get them back - and I still find this the simplest way to get rid of those nagging aches and pains. Many people with more serious problems have got much more help than I need.You might ask why there's no new edition out over all these years. The answer's simple: it still works as it is; there's nothing more to say. Egoscue has published other more general and more targetted books, appliances to make using the Method easier and useful videos on the website. But this is the starting point, and for many it will be all you need.It is, in summary, the one book on physical health and pain relief you really need on your bookshelf if you have no others.

I have suffered with chronic back pain for many years due to a injury i had in the gym in my lower back, as a result it has had a massive effect on my life, i have tried every remedy there is, seen a dozen orthopedic surgens (most of them said no to a operation as my problem was mechanical) I am always willing to try any form of self help treatment especially one recommended by a fellow sufferer, the best so far is the Mcenzie routine, but alas this does not help sometimes. I have tried the Ogoscue method on and off over the last four years, but have had very little improvement if any, so good luck and i hope it works for you, i will keep looking and trying anything i think will help

I read about Pete Egoscue and his 'E-cises' by accident when I was searching for 'ways to alleviate lower back pain'. I was in pain having spent two days with a hot wheat bag almost strapped to me and really at my wits end. I found a blog that recommended some moves/positions taken from 'Pain Free' and they worked after a couple of days! They didn't cure the problem but certainly alleviated the symptoms so I sent for the book. It's been two months now of doing e-cises every day; I am pain free and understand so much more about the root causes of my pain. I have found some useful sets of e-cises on You Tube too. There are no short cuts and you have to be prepared to give the time up for the sets of exercises but it is well worth it. I've also recently sent for 'The Egoscue Method of Health Through Motion'.

With no advice whatsoever from my GP, and an appointment in 3 months at the hospital, I felt utterly despondent about the results of my MRI. This book gave me hope. It makes a lot of sense, it's what I've suspected all along -that pain in one part of my body was causing part in another part and that this rippled further to other parts. But my GP just stared at me as if I was crazy suggesting a link. This is positive book, very clearly written, divided into different sections according to where the pain is. I recommend reading all the sections even if you don't have pain in that part of the body. The exercises are mostly online on youtube but it's a good idea to find an Egoscue practitioner and go at least once. This system is definitely working for me.

Recommended by a friend when I was in excruciating pain with my back. Put me back in control, and, gave me the confidence to move. Basically : WORKED! On first reading thought: 'this is too weird'. But, desperate!!! So.... stuck with it. There is no easy answer - need to take the time, and, take personal responsibility. Did the 'poses' - still do some 'retainers' every morning. Takes me... 5 minutes. Several years later... fine. Thank you Pete. x

What this book did was to awaken me to the fact my pain may be muscular based rather than spinal. it has some great exercises and if it works for you GREAT. I pondered how some people have to continue to keep up these exercises for life? was the human body designed that way?eventually stumbled upon Dr John Sarnos healing back pain. I urge anyone who is truly desperate to give it a try if Egoscue doesn't work for you!

Recommended by an osteopath, who could not help me much. I have fibromyalgia. The first exercise I tried using this book <<<seems to have>>>> triggered such a massive migraine that I was hospitalized for 5 days and even morphine wouldn't touch the pain. This could have been a coincidence ...... but obviously I am unwilling / too scared to attempt it again.

This book is a fundamental necessity of life and should be on free download worldwide. I've been doing a few exercises every morning for about 3 months now - the relief from disabilitating back pain is real. It makes you aware of how you have naively created problems by your posture, or from some accident, and so helps you to train your muscles to work properly to support your spine. There are sample exercises on Youtube, but beware that the Egoscue clinics and practioners will want an arm and a leg to show you in person or in a class.