Pain Free at Your PC by Pete Egoscue, Roger Gittines Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Pain Free at Your PC
Book Review: Good advice
Summary: 4 Stars
I read this book several years ago when I was having major tendonitis in my arms that threatened my ability to work at a computer. It had gotten to the point where I was very limited in ability and in a lot of pain day and night.
I started doing the exercises in Chapter 6 - Ecises for those in Pain. I can tell you that they are not easy but they do work. When I do "Static wall" I can feel the knots in my upper back just melt away. The only problem I have with doing the exercises is the length of time they take. But taking time to improve our health is a choice we make for ourselves and probably most of us should take more time than we do. I did recover in large part to these exercises and a new concept of how the body compensates for poor posture. I don't do them now like I should but if I have pain and return to even some of the exercises - it does make a difference.
Book Review: Good but completely ommits the hands
Summary: 3 Stars
When all you have is hammer everything starts looking like a nail. That's how this book approaches the healing and fixing the pain in your hands. Author has good tips on how to stretch and help with back, neck and shoulder pain but for hands he has nothing. Instead he says your problem is not with hands rather with shoulders or hips, since that is all he knows about. Really?
For hand pain this book will not help since it does not address it or even acknowledge it as something that needs to be addressed. I recommend
"The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief" and "
End Your Carpal Tunnel Pain Without Surgery"
Depending on level of your injury though neither of these might really provide pain free PC experience although they will help.
Book Review: Great book for computer users
Summary: 5 Stars
I started to have wrist, elbow and shoulders pain after 6 years of using PC and mouse. I try arranging my mouse and PC adjusting the height of my chair and table. All of these steps does not help. This book helps to explain how did the pain come about. The excercises are effective and ease the pain after doing it for only 1 or 2 days. Now the problem is to have the discpline to do them.Great book!
Book Review: It Works
Summary: 5 Stars
For 4 months, I've had a "pinched nerve" in my neck that caused chronic pain in my right arm (enough to wake me up in the night, every night) and a sort of "numb" feeling in my right index finger. I've been helped some by my chiropractor, some by massage, and gotten prescription pain relief from my M.D. However, after 3 weeks of this book's daily exercise routine for "power PC users," my right arm has been pain free (with no medication). Regardless of grammer (another reviewer's gripe), what this book says is true and it works.Book Review: It really works -- but only if you take the time!
Summary: 4 Stars
Egoscue says that most chronic pain is caused by poor posture and poor body mechanics (e.g., moving wrong). The solution -- a set of stretches that teach you good posture and good body mechanics. These "E-cises" are gentle and easy to perform. They do take a bit of time -- more than an hour for people who use PCs all day -- but the results are amazing. The biggest problem with this book can only addressed by the reader: this advice does you no good unless you lay down and do the E-cises. Don't let the lengthy time daunt you though -- the time required shrinks after a few weeks, and the relief is well worth it. The 5-minute stretches are helpful, too. The reviewers who didn't like this book all sound like they never actually tried the E-cises.
I'd give this book 5-stars, but I must in honesty admit that Egoscue's book "Pain Free" is superior.