Syllabus for both workshops:

Fix and Prevent Injuries - Arches, Ankles, Discs, Knees, Back, and Neck
and

Medical Breakthroughs in Non-Surgical Methods to Fix Back and Neck Pain

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Instructor,
Jolie Bookspan, MEd, PhD, FAWM
Director  Neck and Back Pain Sports Medicine
Director  AFEM - Academy of Functional Exercise Medicine

Named "St. Jude of the Joints" by Harvard Medical School

www.DrBookspan.com

 

In these fast-paced, jam-packed, sometimes humorous workshops, Dr. Bookspan explodes myths and shows why the most common treatments don't work. See the principles in action where you least expect them. Learn more solutions than you can shake a stick at. Come prepared to excite your brain. For motivated students only, who will use their brain.


WMS medical conference July 2010  Fix Pain class - physicians, military, and smart students
Thank you AFEM academy developmental projects director Peggy Santamaria for the banner.


 

Class Text Books

        

   


 


What is Taught

  • Why you get pain, what to do about it, and how to keep it from coming back.
  • Medical Breakthroughs in Fixing Back and Neck Pain: General mechanics of disc pain, disc degeneration, and herniation, sciatica, impingement (pinched nerve) joint and soft tissue pain and injury process, neck and upper back pain, lordosis, bad discs, facet pain, upper crossed syndrome, general arthritis and narrowings, spondys, hyperlordosis (swayback), pain with standing, pain with sitting, muscle spasm, hip dysfunction, tight muscles, more. Learn to identify and reeducate common injurious ergonomics and habits, and identify good and bad exercises
  • Fix and Prevent Injuries: shorter summary of the above, plus ankles, knees, limited shoulder (info with neck), arches, more.

 


 


Certification

Academy Certification and Instructor training may be earned by top students through study with Dr. Bookspan

 



Participant Comments

The workshop 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 this course.
- Dr. Linder Wingo, M.D., Ocala Florida


The workshop is very practical. Concepts easy to understand.
I already have felt pain relief.
- Dana Chandler, North Carolina


I personally benefited and reduced my own back pain.
Also, the shoulder information you taught us helped my shoulder pain (had it for years --PT exercises did not help). My shoulder pain has actually gone away. I am amazed.
- Major Kelly Fripps, BSN, RN, USAir Force,
NC Flight Commander, Primary Care Teams Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona


I learned exercises that have already given me relief of my own pain. The workshop gave ways to easily recognize and correct problems. I recommend everything about this workshop.
- Dr. Thomas Brown, M.D., Emergency Room Physician, St. Agnes Medical Center


I will be able to help my patients with all I learned.
What do I say about this workshop? Go for it!
- Dr. Mack C. Poole, M.D., Spartanburg, S


My mother literally stopped the surgeons on her way into surgery, and left the hospital to try your techniques instead. She is much better now. I truly am grateful for your willingness to help, your compassion, your generosity. I consider you an angel of mercy, for you have also rid me of the pains that were making me old before my time.
- Kat Gibson, Colorado, "One of America's top singers and songwriters" acc to Savanna Times Journal



 

 

BEFORE Class, Here Is How To Prepare:

1. Free Summaries. Read Those That Apply To You:

Upper Back and Neck Pain
Neck and upper back pain, herniated and degenerating cervical (neck) discs, upper shoulder, rotator cuff pain, numb arm/fingers, and forward head.

Lower Back Pain
Fix your own back pain, intro to discs, and understanding exercises
- Español!-! Dolor de Espalda y Que Hacer?

Bad Discs and Sciatica
Disc degeneration, herniation, and sciatica, and how to fix them yourself

- Français! -Prévenir le mal de dos en cas de longue station assise

Lower Back Pain With Standing, Walking, Running (when upright, not sitting)
How (exactly) abs fix back pain (It's not by strengthening) - You may be surprised. Includes, lordosis, hyperlordosis, spondys, swayback, SI joint, more.
- Français! - La Révolution Abdominale™ Une Nouvelle Manière de Comprendre et d’Utiliser les Muscles Abdominaux

Knee Pain
Instead of reducing activity, learn healthy movement that helps knees and improves function at the same time.

List of Fix Pain readings on this web site.

Make sure you understand the concepts, not just skip understanding to "do" exercises.

 


2. Also
Read this Short Fitness Fixer
Summary:

"Fast Fitness - Somebody Please Do My Personal Responsibility For Me!"

It answers student questions on your readings.



3. Get free instant updates about this class and others, exciting projects, Fitness Fixes, and other. Short and easy.

 

4. Check Your Topics on The Fitness Fixer

My free health compendium. Fun innovative ways to make exercise and daily life healthier. Here is The Fitness Fixer Index.

 

5. Check How Others Fixed the Same Pain You Have - Inspiring Patient Stories

In Inspiring Patient Stories people tell, in their own words, how they used the information in the classes and books to stop their pain and injuries. Not testimonials, but tutorials.

See more successes with personal stories and instructions in the Reader Hall Of Fame 2007-2008 and Reader Hall Of Fame 2009

6. Get Your Books
These courses are too comprehensive to fit in a few summary readings. Full step-by-step instruction books are available in class at discount for students, or on my web site BOOKS page:

Fix Your Own Pain Without Drugs or Surgery Everything we cover in class to fix your neck, upper back, and lower back pain and disc pain, fully illustrated, step-by-step. Plus how to fix pain everywhere else - chapters on exactly what to do to fix and prevent pain in your hip, shoulder, wrist, knee, feet and ankles, leg cramps, more.


Health & Fitness in Plain English- How to be Healthy Happy and Fit for the Rest of Your Life New THIRD Edition.
For people with back or neck pain who also want to be active and learn healthier nutrition and lifestyle. 31 chapters of step-by-step instructions for better health.


The Ab Revolution™
No More Crunches No More Back Pain New revised third edition expanded.
Revolutionary core re-training method - no forward bending that stresses disc and trains rounded painful posture. Combination of sports medicine and fun exercise to straighten posture, learn neutral spine, and get a healthier stronger workout than with conventional abdominal exercises. Change your understanding of what abdominal muscles do (and don't do) during daily activity and what they have to do with your back. Used by military, law enforcement, and the nation's top spine doctors. Fully illustrated.131 pages.

Stretching Smarter Stretching Healthier

Learn which traditional stretches add to pain and dysfunction. Learn healthier and more fun stretches to do instead.

 


7. Keep Pain Away
For SMARTER PROGRESS Fixing Your Pain and Keeping it Away:

 


Directions to Temple U Center City - TUCC
1515 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102
(215) 204-6946:


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Directions to Snowmass Conference Center
Snowmass Village, Colorado:


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After Class, Continue to Review With my Free Materials:

      1. Check for your topics of interest on my online health compendium: The Fitness Fixer Index.
      2. Review summaries of “Fix Pain” information: DrBookspan.com/clinical.

 


 

"Don't listen to anyone who tells you you can't do this or that. That's nonsense.
Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick,
then have a go at everything."

-- Sir Douglas Bader (1910-1982), British fighter pilot who lost both legs
in a flying accident, but still fought in World War Two


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