Peter Egoscue

A good book which stresses the need to keep moving if you want to keep your health. He also stresses taking responsibility for your own health, and not expecting some pill or surgery to be as good a 'fix' as you could do by changing some lifestyle.
He writes in a conversational style that is easy to read. I'm not sure if I agree with all his explanations for how our bodies work (he uses analogies a lot), but I do think his approach is effective for a majority of modern complaints. I'm not show more very good at making a self-assessment, as he suggests, by looking in a mirror but if someone else can help me identify the areas where I'm not aligned, his exercises are described and illustrated. show less

It seemed weird that to help with carpal tunnel that I would do the same exercises as other issues in the book. Meaning groin pulls and sitting on an invisible chair. Found better hand exercises on YouTube to try than these ones in the book.

The first thing I noticed when reading this book was that the title was a misnomer since it doesn’t help people to overcome pain in general: it addresses only musculoskeletal pain, not pain from chronic disease.

However, the author did impress me with his knowledge and if I were a millionaire and had need for help with any of the complaints he’s knowledgeable about, I would cross the ocean to consult him. (I doubt whether many others have his level of knowledge and expertise.)

The only show more complaints he mentioned that I suffer from are heel spurs and corns.

I couldn’t find anything about what I could do about my heel spurs, and as regards corns I became in doubt as to whether what I have are in fact corns, or calluses, though my foot therapist says they are corns. We’re not told what to do about corns either.

He tells us that calluses and corns are not to be blamed on our shoes or walking too much. But no explanation about what actually is to blame, except that with one particular client it was a hip misalignment; and more friction will be generated by less and less movement.

There are lots of incomprehensible illustrations. For example, there is one showing “load-bearing joints” both “dysfunctionally and functionally loaded”, but I can’t see the difference. There’s one purporting to show functional and disfunctional knees, and one showing a ”nonbilateral” body. He also gives us a figure “showing” a group of people exhibiting “sagging” dysfunctional effects in different ways. I can get nothing out of these diagrams.

There are also photos showing “E-cises” to treat pain and correct the problems, but I can’t always understand all one has to do.

Neither could I understand the text!

I’m not saying others won’t be able to understand these things. But I at least couldn’t.

The author writes as though the only kind of pain is musculoskeletal pain, which is obviously far from true.

He does give us much information. He warns us that pain (the pain that he has knowledge of) is warning us of the danger of acute motion starvation. “Our systems are in a dysfunctional state – they are not being refueled by motion.”

He includes examples of his patients’ problems and how he solved them.

His E-cises work on restoring proper design motion to the joint that’s afflicted with chronic pain. They will probably be useful to some, perhaps many. show less

What a load of malarkey. Even goes the extra step of using a capital letter for his BS "Method". Exercise...and your pain goes away. Yeah, right.

Not only not recommended, but going into the donate pile. Good thing I found it on the HPB clearance shelf for only a buck.

4 plus stars?? Serious?