Posture Alignment by Paul D'Arezzo Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Posture Alignment
Book Review: Helpful, encouraging book to improve posture
Summary: 5 Stars
Posture Alignment by Paul D'Arezzo is the best exercise book I've seen for improving posture. I'm a 53-year old female who has been having problems with back and neck pain and then injured my shoulder, and I started questioning whether my increasingly poor posture was a major contributor to my problems. Yes! Dr. D'Arezzo very engagingly explains the problems caused by improperly-aligned posture, gives instructions on how to do a self-assessment, and provides well-explained and illustrated exercises to help correct problem posture. He provides 19 "Posture Alignment Menus" to choose from. The menus vary from 1 to 42 minutes to work through. I have been doing a combination of two menus, "Asymmetry of Shoulders and Hips-One Shoulder or Hip Higher than the Other" and "Rounded Shoulders and Upper Back," and I'm pleased with the improvement in my posture and in how I feel. I am recommending this book to all my friends. I have a 50-year old developmentally-disabled brother who is becoming very round-shouldered and inflexible because of his low activity level, so I worked with him using the "Function Menu" to help him to strengthen muscles he uses in everyday living, and he really enjoyed the whole exercise routine.
Beside providing exactly the information I needed to address my physical problems, Dr. D'Arezzo's book provides wonderful encouragement that I think anyone trying to make a significant change will appreciate. This book is absolutely terrific!
Book Review: Informative little book!
Summary: 4 Stars
After having some back trouble and the doctor recommending posture alignment I decided to order this book. I found it informative and helpful for my condition.
Book Review: It works for me!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one book that you should keep just in case you find yourself hurt and no doctor seems to know what's wrong. This book has changed my life. Maybe it could work for you too!Book Review: Most useful book!
Summary: 5 Stars
The numerous physicians and chiropractor I've seen never clarified why there has been a nagging pain in my right knee (and they also failed to cure it), yet this book answered my question: yep, it is misaligned! The self diagnosis is easy to do and the exercises helpful: in just 2 weeks I've seen a lot of improvement on my shoulder/back pain and hopefully the knee pain will go away soon! Now I notice lots of people have posture/alignment problems but almost no health care provider pays any attention to it. This book is truly wonderful!Book Review: Noticed a Dramatic Diffrence in how I feel in just three weeks.
Summary: 5 Stars
The Author of this book coaches you through everything in the simplest terms possible. The basic theory of the book is that our bones become misaligned (forward head or twisted pelvis for example) because our muscles become stiff and weak from lack of use. our bones actually shift when they are weak to acomodate the demands placed on our bodies.
To be more specific, we have pairs of muscles on either side of our joints that move them in opposite directions, whether it be our hips wrists, Knees shoulders ect. When we use our joints, the muscles on one side contract and the muscles on the other relax. Muscle imbalances on both side of a joint cause the bone to be pulled out of alignment.
I have seen many people-- even before I read this book--with forward heads, feet that were tilted outwards like a duck or excesivly inward and shoulders that were uneven. The goal of alignment is to get our bodies back into their proper sympatry and thus restore function and mobility to our joints.
a forward neck for example, puts strain on your shoulders, upper back and neck which limits its mobility, and requires greater energy to maintain. Every postural misalignment puts strain on other parts of the body, thus using unessesary energy. Arezo teaches you how to access yourself for misalignments and then tells you exactly how to fix them with exercises. He guides you through step by step with clear illustrations for every exercise. At most they will take you half an hour. He has different exercise menus for different postural misalignments. He even has short menus that help overall alignment.
The great thing about Posture Alignment is that the author tells you exactly how you will feel after doing the exercises and what to expect from them. This is really the least intensive and effective home solution for anyone with postural problems.
He makes good sense. This is the best sum of money I have ever spent in a personal effort to correct my own postural problems and back pain. I couldn't have asked for anything more.
The Posture Alignment theory, has proved its worth in working wonders for my posture and how I feel. I am very surprised that I can feel the difference, and others can see the difference in such a short time.
I cannot in good conscience give this anything but what it deserves. Five stars.