Bonnie Prudden

For people of all ages...
Safe, long-term releif form arthritis, backaches, headaches, menstrual cramps, tennis elbow, trick knees, bursitis, and more!

Bonnie Prudden's revolutionary breakthrough in pain relief involves trigger points-tender areas where muscles have been damaged from falls, childhood ailments, poor posture, and the stresses of daily life.

Requiring no special training or equipmnt, myotherapy is a natural, simple technique that can be performed in the home. Bonnie Prudden's step-by-step method has been hailed by doctors and patients across America for its extraordinary 95 percent success rate.

Three easy steps to pain relief

1 Locate your trigger points-as individual as your fingerprints.
2 Apply seven seconds of pressure to where it hurts.
3 Stretch the affected muslces with simple exercises.

Illustrated with charts, photographs, and diagrams and featuring a life-time exercise program for pain prevention.

'The amazing thing is that it works!'-Prevention Magazine

Contents

Acknowledgments
Note to the reader
Foreword
1 Most people don't have to suffer pain
What myotherapy is, its medical origins, and how it erases pain
2 To erase pain, erase triggerpoints
What a trigger point is and how it functions
The major causes of trigger points
How a stressful climate triggers pain
Some by-products of pain
Importance of a healthy climate in warding off pain
3 Techniques used in myotherapy
Why myotherapy works
How do you get started?
The technique for applying pressure
How to make a trigger point map
The end-of-session stretch and other exercise
Konw your subject's history
Myotherapy success score with chronic pain: To date, 95 percent
4 Rid yourself of backache
Odyssey of a backache sufferer
How to erase lower back pain
Side-lying stretch exercise
Erasing trigger points from hips
Cross-leg stretch
Muscles of the back and back pain
Erasing trigger points from the 'belt' area
Cat back-old horse stretch exercise
The limbering series
5 Rid yourself of headaches and jaw pain
Some theories on the causes of migraines
The types of migraine
Other kinds of headache
Check for abnormalities
Myotherapy record: 95 percent success
'Head-hunting' in search of pain
Erasing trigger points around the eyes
Erasing trigger points around the nose and cheekbones
Trigger points erasure around the ears
Temporomandibular joint dysfunction: A pain in the jaw
Jaw pain plus head pain (continued)
Trigger point erasure around the neck
Stretch and resistance exercise for neck
6 Arthritis pain can be relieved
Arthritis strikes nearly everyone
Happily, arthritis pain respoinds to myotherapy
Splinting and substitution
Prevalence of arthritis by occupation
The types of arthritis
Medication and arthritis
Case histories of arthritics helped by myotherapy
The classic Greek foot
What modern meicine has in its little black bag for arthritics
7 Common pains and what to do about them
Shoulder-pain syndrome
The thread-needle stretch
Shrug series
Trigger points in the lower legs
Lower-leg stretch
Trigger points in the upper legs
Flexibility bounces
Relief of menstrual cramps and pain in the groin
Groin stretch
Help for painful knees
Stretch for inside of the upper leg
Stretch for the center line of the leg
Stretch for the outside of the leg
Stretch for lower leg plus stiff and painful ankles
Relief for hurting feet
Foot massage and exercises
The chesst muscles and pain
Clearing trigger points from the chest muscles
Snap and stretch exercise for the latissimus dorsi
Lateral overhead reach
Pain in the arms and hands
The arm
Shoulder rotations
The hand
Exercises for the hand
Athletes, weekend sportsmen, and their pains
Immediate mobilization
Seeking massage
Fibrositis massage
8 Pain related to pregnancy and birth-help for mother and child
What's so different today?
Sports during pregnancy
Exercises to do during pregnancy
Pre-and postnatal relaxation techniques
Why your baby needs mytheraphy
The baby who arrived in a hurry
The baby who coundn't stand up
Trigger point erasure in babies
The value of exercises with baby
The exercises
Seeking massage for babies
Massage and myotheraphy for prevention
9 Erase the pains of aging or hurting
We can counteract deterioration
How to survive a hospital
Bed ballet
Hopeless cases? We don't believe it
10 To ward off pain-Test your fitness, imporve your fitness
The tests
Correctives for the K-W abdominal tests
Corrective for the K-w psoas test
Corrective for the K-W upper and lower back tests
Corrective for the K-W back and hamstring flexibility test
Your basic fitness program to keep pain away
Relax
One last reminder
Afterword
Appendixes
1 Muscle and skeletal plates for the human body
2 Table of pains and other symptoms, giving areas of the body harboring related trigger points
3 Table of occupations and related pain hazards
4 Table of sports and related pain hazards
Sources
Index… (mais)