Dr. Bookspan's Academy - AFEM & Fixa U™

We are an international organization providing:

Master classes - Internationally attended evidence-based education for the public, and post-graduate studies for physicians and health professionals. Hands-on direct learning.

Certifications for physicians, allied health, physical therapists, fitness and health instructors, and the public

Recognition to those completing certification studies

Awards to thank, recognize, and support those using this work to help the world

Fellow advancement for physicians and researchers - FAFEM. Course requirements on the Class page. Advancement program in development, check back soon.

Not all exercise is good medicine. Not all medicine is healthy. We change that.
Instead of lists of artificial exercises, real life movement habits are retrained to stop sources of pain, and restore ability to do more.
Strengthening and stretching do not automatically change damaging movement habits, fix posture, or stop pain. Retraining daily life movement habits and biomechanics to be built-in health care is an exciting change in fitness and health.
We don't limit the person to limit the pain, or separate daily life habits from fitness. If you have to change clothes and stop your life to rehab injuries or get exercise, it's not fitness as a lifestyle. The same healthful movement is used for how you move at home, work, recreation - are you sitting in healthful position right now to read this?
We teach individuals and groups healthy biomechanics habits for daily life instead of injury-producing habits, good food instead of disease-causing food, healthier training for high level athletes and military, healthier medical practices for the sick, no cost preventive medicine, "green" fitness, and healthier mind set. No need for commercial exercise equipment or supplements. Living a healthy life becomes inexpensive, simple, self-empowering, "green," and fun.

Mr. Jim Morris writes on his Academy Appointment:

Certification - Workshops, Seminars, World Congresses, and concentrated opportunities to attend certificate-bearing seminars. Scholarships available for elderly, Native Americans, Indigenous people wanting to preserve their cultures in healthy ways, and children at risk. Class schedules are updated on the CLASS page.
Twitter - Quick Notices of projects, classes, Fixes, more - Twitter.com/TheFitnessFixer.
The Fitness Fixer™ - Fun, intelligent information to change the entire idea of exercising and health for the better - hundreds of topics, almost 800 free articles - The Fitness Fixer.
Fix Pain Articles - Free, step-by-step summaries for fixing common injuries, and fixing the exercises and stretches that cause them. Click the clinical page.
Success Stories - Step-by-step histories how patients fixed a variety of injuries, and restored happy, pain free lives using these methods - Reader Hall Of Fame 2009 and Reader Hall Of Fame 2007-2008
Bookspan Basics - Functional Training Drills for yourself, your individual patient and clients, and your groups. Put the fun in functional. Here are six quick group training drills. I am looking for a special person to implement these as Director of Youth Programs of the Academy. You will work with me, Dr. Bookspan Executive Director to set up healthy movement training programs for schools, eventually as a nation-wide program. See the Bookspan Basics.
Functional Fitness - Fitness as a (Real) Lifestyle - an all in one page of short fun instructionals on how to change all your daily life movement from reaching in the closet to bending for pets to making the bed to sitting and other real needed ordinary life movement. Health built in to every day. See Fitness as aA Lifestyle - Functional Fitness and Exercise..
Flash Mob Healthy Alternatives. Use my work of healthy movement in my exciting program of #FlashFitness for healthy alternatives for your Flash Mobs. Prizes for healthy creativity. Contact me.
Non-profit Status for Academy programs, CME/CEUs, and professional liability insurance for certified members - In the works. To help, contact Dr. Bookspan
Help locate or build the Academy Center - Beautiful place to come learn, fix pain, build a healthier Earth. Details on the Projects page. To take part, contact Dr. Bookspan.
The "The Red Rock Society." Some Native American tribes long ago voted whether to go to war or not. The women, who stood to lose their men and resources, could cast a red stone against it. I propose we all stand up to be heard and cast our Red Rock. Contact Dr. Bookspan to help build this world program for healthy peace.
Books - Fun, easy to read, immediately helpful, all techniques together in one source books.
T-shirts and Back Savers - Fun reminders for spine health - mugs showing neck health during extension (drinking), bags that teach carrying, mouse pads reminding sitting posture. Of course, portions of proceeds go to scholarships and charity. Get and give Uncommon Sense gifts on the Academy GIfts page.

Founding Director of the Academy is Dr. Jolie Bookspan, MEd, PhD, FAWM. Dr. Bookspan pioneered changing medicine to make it healthy, functional biomechanics and real life methods for rehabilitation instead of artificial exercises and restricting activities, and pioneered patient participation as integral to long-term medical success. Dr. Bookspan was the first to start fitness programs on Cruise Ships against consensus at the time that no one would want to be active on vacation. We not only save the rainforests, we save you so much on unnecessary medicalization of injury, that you can give to the poor and still take a vacation to the rainforest. Dr. Bookspan has been awarded an international Humanitarian Award for this work.
Program Directors are Mr. Stuart Wood, Ms. Peggy Santamaria, Paul Jenkins, Annie Fetter. Will you join us next? See their inspired community health programs, our student honor roll, and how you can participate, on the Academy Honors page.
The Fitness Fixer™ article New International Academy tells more of history and plans.

The Academy gives annual awards to thank, recognize, and support
those who make the world healthier.

(The Academy Awards!)

Award categories for physicians, individuals, health instructors,
teachers, and others who lead by example. You can endow a memorial award. e-Mail: AcademyAwards @ DrBookspan DOT com

Academy Awards - Our World Awards for Leading World Health

"Dr. Bookspan is widely acclaimed for her work in human physiology and sports medicine... known in scientific circles for successfully debunking traditional, but ineffective or wrong ideas. For that reason some have compared her to Galileo for changing the "held paradigm." She is known as a careful and brilliant researcher who has found the reasons why things were not working, and changed the paradigm to a more simple and more effective one. Her methods to reverse pain and injury are gems of common sense management."
- Dr. Ernest S Campbell, MD, FACS Board Certified, General Surgery (Retired), Chairman Department of Surgery, Board of Directors Brookwood Medical Center. Birmingham Alabama

"I attended last year for your classes and came back specifically for more. I reinforced lessons learned - useful evidence based methods for treating pain. It makes my own back feel better. You are so genuine and passionate about the science. I refer patients to your books and programs daily."
- Dr. Scott Loree, MD, ER Family Practice, Edmonton Alberta

The workshops gave me a vastly improved understanding of mechanics and rarely presented ways of utilizing them for health and problem elimination/control. The overall learning/insight is excellent; the information of immediate clinical therapeutic use. I very highly recommend these courses.
- Dr. Linder Wingo, M.D.

Jolie, Under your direction and experience, many updated techniques will follow."
- Joseph Estwanik MD FACSM, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Author of Sports Medicine for the Combat Arts, Chairman of Ringside Physician's Course U.S. Olympic Training Center

It has been my great fortune to have the privilege to direct a medical school elective program. Thus it has been that budding clinicians for three years were privileged to learn first hand from faculty member Dr. Bookspan about healthy patterns for living and activity. It will be a great benefit to all their future patients (and themselves) if they continue to explore, learn, and apply the information and experience of Dr. Bookspan through the Academy of Functional Exercise Medicine."
- Dr. Tom Kessler, MD, MSPH, FAAFP, FAWM

Put your good ideas and talents into practice. We offer fun projects to make your health and the world better. Get priceless instruction in return for your participation - artists, architects, engineers, photographers, musicians, marketing geniuses, karma capitalists, honest workers, journalists, accountants, tradesmen, craftsmen, technicians, lawyers, communication specialists, YOU. Projects added often - Be prepared to have fun and use your brain. Click Fun Projects.

Enter the LOGO contest. Design the Academy logos - including Certifications, Fellow Advancement, and the main logo for the Academy itself. Credit to the designer remains. Logo designs should be simple,and incorporate concepts of brains, functional strength, and world care. Other concepts and ideas welcome. More info and submissions - click Projects.

Are you our Director of Youth Programs, Communications Liaison, or Director of Electronic Media Learning? Youth Director runs programs training lifelong health, starting with Bookspan Basics - group training drills for schools, camps, leagues, and other healthy group structure, building a nation-wide program. Communications Director liaisons with press and distribution avenues to increase awareness and fun for all. Director of Electronic Learning writes and makes cool fun internet and cloud based apps, DVDs, learning channels, more. Send projects you are doing or developing in these topics and others to Dr. Bookspan

Take Classes. Learn how to bring healthful techniques back to your fitness rehab and medical centers, and also to orphanages, Indian Reservations, elder communities, impoverished communities, the World. Click classes.

Become Certified through the Academy.

Earn Membership. There are no membership dues, just membership "do's" - To be a member, you DO need to be good, and do good. Membership is by sweat-equity. Welcome. Your membership is good as long as you are. More on membership, and Membership Card down-loadable from this site, coming soon. WATCH THIS SPACE.

Send your success stories using our methods for a smart healthy happy life. e-mail: Success @ DrBookspan DOT com

Mr. Nakhlé and model both demonstrate the forward head, a common source of upper body pain.
Take our seminars to learn how to fix this injury and keep pain from coming back.

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