Summary of Pete Egoscue's Pain Free

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The doctor’s comment that there comes a point when modern medical techniques must give way to the body’s own inner logic, mechanisms, and intentions is a profound truth. The body not only controls the ultimate transition from life to death, but also manages the process of health and healing.
#2 The musculoskeletal system is the foundation of the body’s command role. It is extremely simple and strong, and it is perfectly suited to the purpose of moving the body. The nervous system overlaps and merges with the musculoskeletal system.
#3 Pain is a form of high-priority communication. It warns of impending danger. The body is a motion machine, and we are here to move. We are unlikely to ever need to limit or manage our muscle-bone movement, but we have chosen to attack the mechanisms that protect our health and keep us pain free.
#4 The human body is designed to move. We are not simply instinctive animals that can only move under our own volition. We evaluate, deliberate, and choose. Our reactions to external stimuli keep the body fueled and capable of motion.

Sujets

• Sport
• Sports fitness
• Exercise
• Physical exercise
• Health
• Stretching
• Fitness

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 14 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822509771
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Pete Egoscue's Pain Free
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11 Insights from Chapter 12 Insights from Chapter 13
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The doctor’s comment that there comes a point when modern medical techniques must give way to the body’s own inner logic, mechanisms, and intentions is a profound truth. The body not only controls the ultimate transition from life to death, but also manages the process of health and healing.

#2

The musculoskeletal system is the foundation of the body’s command role. It is extremely simple and strong, and it is perfectly suited to the purpose of moving the body. The nervous system overlaps and merges with the musculoskeletal system.

#3

Pain is a form of high-priority communication. It warns of impending danger. The body is a motion machine, and we are here to move. We are unlikely to ever need to limit or manage our muscle-bone movement, but we have chosen to attack the mechanisms that protect our health and keep us pain free.

#4

The human body is designed to move. We are not simply instinctive animals that can only move under our own volition. We evaluate, deliberate, and choose. Our reactions to external stimuli keep the body fueled and capable of motion.

#5

Pain is only warning us of danger, and the danger is acute motion starvation. We are not getting enough motion, and our systems are not functioning properly.

#6

We are ignoring these messages too often, and obliterating them with stimulants, pain-killers, surgery, and ergonomic palliatives that try to make the body conform to man-made operating procedures and standards.

#7

The human body is made up of many different components, but the spine is the center of a geometric construction based on parallel vertical and horizontal lines and ninety-degree angles. The body also uses clamps to fasten the structural pipes in place to hold the ninety-degree angles.

#8

The muscles that move the bones are not any old muscles and any old bones. They are specific muscles that are assigned to shift specific bones by contracting and relaxing. These muscles and bones are formed in association with stimuli from the environment.

#9

The musculoskeletal system is linked to external stimulation. It is impossible to over-emphasize the importance of stimuli to the musculoskeletal system and all the other systems. The nerves signal the muscles to move the bones only for a reason.

#10

The world was a very stimulating place for humankind’s early ancestors. They developed thousands of biomechanical responses keyed to environmental stimuli, then passed them on to later generations.

#11

The human body is extremely adaptable. We have adapted physiologically to the world around us, and our musculoskeletal systems are a result of this adaptability. As microbiologist and author René Dubos noted in his 1968 Pulitzer prize-winning book So Human an Animal, such processes are not always beneficial: they result in delayed pathological effects.

#12

The body will shut down organs that are not being used. This is because in situations of scarcity, superfluity of any kind was a threat to survival. The body adapts by borrowing muscles to do the work that should be done by major postural muscles were they not atrophied.

#13

The body is pulled out of alignment when it improvises muscles to do the work of major muscles. Peripheral muscles lack the power and design proficiency to do their own assignments, and the body goes to great lengths to find substitute muscles.

#14

The musculoskeletal system is not a reflection of the body’s inferior design. It is a reflection of the body’s original, coherent canon of rules. We can only understand and follow them.

#15

The human musculoskeletal system is universal. Rare birth defects and genetic anomalies do not explain the contemporary epidemic of chronic pain. The eight load-bearing joints are distributed on the left and right sides of the body, and when they don’t work together, I was born that way isn’t an explanation.

#16

The body’s design gives you the right stuff and a birthright to be pain free. You are about to read a horror story, but it is one of the few in this book. Alex wasn’t so lucky.
Insights from Chapter 2