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What We Do
Learn how to get rid of your pain and keep it from coming back. You don't "just have to live with it."
Not all Exercise is Medicine. Not all Medicine is Healthy. We change that - the real health care reform.
Learn to retrain movement for all you do in real daily life and during exercise. This is different from "doing exercises." We retrain your everyday actions to be healthy ones. Then your injuries from previously unhealthful movement habits can heal. You don't have to do sports or be an athlete to get better with sports medicine. Athletes also use these methods to directly retrain movement habits (better biomechanics). Good biomechanics is a powerful athletic performance enhancer.
Herniated discs, degenerating discs, sciatica, low back pain and hyper-lordosis, upper back pain (cervical pain) and round shoulders (kyphosis), upper crossed syndrome, nerve impingement (pinched nerve), facet pain, forward head, muscle tightness and strain, overstretched muscles, problems from injurious posture and ergonomics, and general back and neck pain - These are not diseases, but injuries that you can fix. We don't just treat neck and back pain. Shoulders, knees, hips, ankles, and feet are welcome, and overall fitness and health. You can be fitter and healthier than before.
I developed these methods. They combine tested therapeutic rehab modalities with innovative techniques that you put into practice to relieve pain and improve your looks and health right away. The idea is to get you off pain pills and back to your life, better than before.
How To Do It
Take fun classes - Fix your pain and learn fun healthy function for all you do, right in class. Cheaper than a single office visit.
Become certified in these innovative methods through the Academy of Functional Exercise Medicine.
Get started fixing pain right now with free articles - scroll down to see the full list.
My on-line health column "The Fitness Fixer" - several fun new health techniques every week. Here is the Fitness Fixer column. Here is The Fitness Fixer Index.
Read Inspiring Patient Stories - how patients fixed their own back pain, foot pain, knee pain, shoulder pain, fallen arches, and neck pain, and went on to happy, pain free lives using these methods.
House calls or private classes to your home or office by special arrangement - cheaper (and safer) than your Vioxx®.
Get the books - quick, easy-to-read, portable fix-it.
What Patients Say
Dr. Jolie Bookspan is the "St. Jude of the Joints. If there is a way for you to get better, she'll find it.
- Dr. James Mann, Surgeon Podiatrist, Joslin Clinic Harvard School of Medicine.
Despite consultations with my orthopedist, two rehabilitation specialists, a sports personal trainer, and a physical therapist, my best advice for post-operative care of my knee has come from Dr. Jolie Bookspan.
If you want to get on with your life, she is the door.
- Green Beret Lt. Col. R. Kelly Hill, MD, Swat Team Leader, Physician
I had been in PT for 2 years before coming to Dr. Jolie Bookspan. I can't remember one day when I felt as good as I did after the first day with her.
- Camille Simms
Why Learn From A Researcher?
As a physiologist (person who studies how the body works and why), I develop the techniques that physicians use. I worked years as a military and university researcher in environmental physiology, which is how the body functions in the heat and cold, at altitude and underwater, breathing many mixtures of gases, doing different forms and intensities of exercise, and all kinds of injuries. It's important to understand why things work. If you don't understand, then you can't think for yourself, and all you can do is repeat the mistakes of your teachers, who were repeating what they learned in a book from other people who just were repeating what they heard...
You can quickly learn and use what I spent my life researching so that you can be happy, free of pain, and able to do all you love that is good. Scroll down for free summary articles and fix it right now. Click the CLASS page to come learn more with me, and get certified through the Academy of Functional Exercise Medicine (AFEM).
I fix pain, even injuries top docs told people they had to live with. I develop techniques that make top athletes go higher, faster, farther. What do I do that makes tough military guys cry? Click my Research page.
Get Your Life Back and Enjoy It
It isn't "Health Care" to make someone give up activities they love, as a "fix" to stop pain - an approach called "Limit the patient to limit the pain." Instead, I developed methods that use your life, activity, or sport to retrain movement habits so that all you do, from sitting at the desk and cleaning the house, to your sports, are healthy and fun again. That is fitness as a lifestyle.
When I read medical studies that claim positive medicinal effects from humor and laughter, they are numbingly humorless. When I visit medical fitness programs and gyms where people are exercising for health, everyone looks miserable. Then you have people like my Mom, a professional dancer. One of the classes she teaches is tap dance for senior citizens. She named one of her lively groups, "The Clogging Arteries." Another is "Tapaholics Phenomenous - We Do More Than 12 Steps." Our backup singers are "The Fifth Dementia." (Our Muses are the human conditions, Absurdities, Stupidities, and Inanities). Josh Billings (pen name of humorist Henry Shaw) summed it up, "There ain't much fun in medicine, but there's a heck of a lot of medicine in fun."
Articles To Get Started Right Now Fixing Your Own Pain
Back Pain
- How To Fix Your Own Back Pain
- Bad Discs and Sciatica
- Lower Back Pain After Standing, Walking, Running
- How (Exactly) Do Abs Fix Back Pain - You may be surprised
- Français! - La Révolution Abdominale™ Une Nouvelle Manière de Comprendre et d’Utiliser les Muscles Abdominaux
- Español!-! Dolor de Espalda y Que Hacer?
- Secrets of Fixing Your Back Pain When Lifting and Carrying
- Sitting For Planes, Trains, Exercise, Computers, and TV
- Français! -Prévenir le mal de dos en cas de longue station assiseNeck Pain, Upper Back Pain, Upper Crossed Syndrome, Reduced Cervical Lordosis (Forward head), Rotator Cuff, and Shoulder Pain
- Fix Your Own Neck and Upper/ Middle Body PainKnee Pain
- FIX YOUR OWN KNEE PAINSafer, Saner Exercise That's More Fun
- No More Crunches, No More Back Pain - The Ab Revolution™
- Why Fitness Isn't Working- To avoid ineffective habits that work against your health
- Exercise is Medicine? Make it Healthy Medicine - Bad Exercises and Ones To Do Instead
- Stretching and Flexibility for Real Life
- Français! - Une Nouvelle Manière de Comprendre et d’Utiliser les Muscles Abdominaux, La Révolution Abdominale™
Do You Speak A Language Not Here?
- Translate an article and I will add it here with your name credit. The world will benefit and you will sure learn the information better for yourself.
Free Health Column The Fitness Fixer
By Dr. Jolie Bookspan - Healthline.com's Health Authority Column (Blog)
When exercise and medicine aren't healthy - Fix It! Fun, intelligent information to change exercise into health.
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Want Fun Reminders of Healthy Movement? Try UNcommon sense gifts from the Academy.
Books - Easy-to-read resources to quickly fix your pain and get healthier.
Health & Fitness in Plain English, THIRD edition - How to be healthy, happy and fit for the rest of your life
Fix Your Own Pain Without Drugs or Surgery - with tutorial patient stories in every chapter.
Stretching Smarter Stretching Healthier - Learn lifestyle positioning instead of stopping your life to "do" stretches. Healthier more effective streteches.
Healthy Martial Arts - For all athletes, not only martial artists.
The Ab Revolution - No More Crunches No More Back Pain, Third edition - Breakthrough in understanding abdominal muscle for real life function
Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine books - Three hard-to-find editions. including the cult-classic Diving Physiology in Plain English.
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