Loren Fishman

Yoga for Osteoporosis: The Complete Guide (Completely Revised and Updated) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A renowned physician's comprehensive and user-friendly yoga program designed to assist in the management and prevention of osteoporosis, with more than 350 illustrations.

Osteoporosis, a disease characterized by critically low bone mass that leads to painful fractures, affects millions of Americans. One in two women and one in four men over age fifty will have an osteoporosis-related fracture in their lifetime. Although drugs and surgeries can alleviate pain, studies show that low-impact, bone-strengthening exercise is the best treatment. Yoga strengthens bones without endangering joints, making it the perfect therapy for osteoporosis.

For more than a decade, renowned physician and longtime yoga practitioner Loren Fishman's Yoga for Osteoporosis has been an essential guide to understanding and treating this disease. In this completely revised edition, Fishman explains how osteoporosis and yoga affect our bones and offers a spectrum of classical yoga posesincluding physiologically sound adaptationswith easy-to-follow instructions and photographs. Updated with the latest medical insights and accessible poses, Yoga for Osteoporosis welcomes readers of all ages and levels of experience into the healing and strengthening practice of yoga.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781324052005
• Artikelnr.: 70718288

Autorenporträt

Loren Fishman, MD, is a professor at Columbia Medical School and the medical director of Manhattan Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He lives in New York City.