Body
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Publisher Description
The Sunday Times bestseller with all the strategies you need to prevent pain and fuel your body to its fullest health potential.
‘James is incredible – he has played a huge role in helping me manage my fitness and recover from injury over the years’ David Beckham
Simple techniques and strategies to
HEAL
From stress and anxiety, to everyday wear and tear and injury, life takes its toll on our bodies. Now, internationally renowned osteopath James Davies can help you heal your body.
RESET
With tips and tricks to help recognise, manage, and treat everyday aches and pains, this book will reset your approach to understanding your body. James presents a revolutionary blueprint for holistic body wellbeing.
RESTORE
Improve your wellbeing with exercises expertly designed to optimise your body. Enhance your health and mobility by understanding common conditions from arthritis and muscle strains, to IBS and stress, and empower yourself with the knowledge you need to achieve full-body health.
BODY was number 9 in the Sunday Times Bestseller Chart w/b 12th September 2022
About the author
James Davies is a world-renowned osteopath, performance coach and recovery specialist. He has worked throughout the UK, USA, EUROPE and Jamaica with professional athletes ranging from Olympic champions, premiership footballers, NFL and rugby union players, as well as A-list clients from Music, Film and TV.
James developed the ethos of relieve, restore and perform based on his own personal experience as a young athlete. James is on a mission to help everyone understand how their bodies work, to help people seek answers to why they are in pain and to provide strategies to help reach their full health potential. How to listen to the warning signs the body gives us when the systems in our body have become compromised. What you can do to reduce pain, improve flexibility, overcome weakness, and to recover from persistent or new injuries.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
English osteopath Davies debuts with a sensible program for keeping one's body in top shape. After a leg injury ended his hopes of making the British Olympic track team, Davies threw himself into the study of anatomy and the most effective ways to heal damaged muscles and tendons. He outlines the tenets of his practice and shows how to evaluate physical discomfort using his STOP method, which involves identifying the site, type (burning, tingling, aching), and onset (Is it an acute injury or a chronic condition?) of pain, as well as finding out what provoked it (an accident, chronic stress). Illustrated exercises provide easy ways for readers to stretch and relieve tension, including moving one's head in a figure eight motion to combat neck stiffness and using a resistance band to soothe one's shoulders, though he warns that people with stabbing pain or who have trouble completing their normal routines should seek medical attention. He details the range of available professional treatments, explaining that cold laser therapy works by desensitizing the locus of pain and that dry needling "reminds the brain to heal an area of the body" by pricking it, similar to acupuncture. The simple exercises are a boon and graphics illustrating muscle and nerve structures make the medical background easy to digest. Readers will find this a salve.
