This book offers a complete self-care program for those at risk and those already suffering from one of the most common and most debilitating occupational injuries. Guided by symptom charts, you select the best exercises for the movement patterns required by your work and learn how to restore the range of motion to overworked hands and arms. 176 pages

Sharon Butler was working as a massage therapist and Hellerwork practitioner when she developed carpal tunnel syndrome and tendonitis. Unable to sleep through the night because of the pain and concerned about her livelihood, she built upon her knowledge of connective tissue and developed a series of stretching exercises to gently relieve the tension in her body. After daily stretching in this way, her pain soon subsided. To prove that these exercises weren't just a fluke, Butler intentionally overworked her body to bring back her symptoms. While this may not have been the smartest move, her stretching program again relieved her pain.

Enter Butler's exercises. The book is arranged to let you pick and choose the correct stretches to suit your needs. Too much typing, guitar playing, or gardening? Stiff neck, tingling fingers, sore upper arms, or all three? However you developed your repetitive strain injury and whatever your upper-body symptoms (or if you're smart and you'd like to prevent such problems), there are multiple stretches in Conquering Carpal Tunnel Syndrome to suit your needs. The book is arranged to help users develop a personalized stretching program with more than 40 stretches for the upper body, forearms, wrists, fingers, and thumbs to choose from. Butler thoroughly explains the importance of stretching and the correct (and incorrect) way to do it, and the exercises are lucidly illustrated.

Feature

* Learn how soft tissues function and why they develop repetitive strain injuries. * Discover how gentle stretching can help restore full function and comfort to your hands, arms, neck and shoulders. * Gentle stretching exercises counteract the repetitive nature of your work, restoring them to health the quickest way possible. * Choose exercises to relieve your symptoms for specific problem areas of the body. * Create an effective injury prevention program based on your occupation. * EMPLOYERS: Do you want to save money from Worker's Compensation injury claims? Are your workers at risk for developing repetitive strain injury? Your employees can experience immediate relief with lasting results through the exercises in this book. This is your low-cost opportunity to save money, increase productivity and enhance the health of your workers!

The author, Sharon J. Butler, has been studying the function and structural integrity of the human body for the past 10 years. Having spent her career specializing in the correction of soft-tissue injuries, she created this program after developing Carpal Tunnel Syndrome herself in 1991. Not only did she completely eliminate her own symptoms of repetitive strain injury but she also has helped hundreds of others achieve the same relief, non-invasively, permanently and inexpensively. See her webste: http://www.selfcare4rsi.com/

Testimonials

"Buy This Book! I have suffered through eight months of daily and nightly pain from Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and many consultations with doctors and alternative health practitioners. Once I began regular use of these clearly defined exercises I became flexible and pain free. I have avoided surgery and returned to daily writing and needlework. Yeah!"—J. Pool, Clinical Social Worker

Pretty great relief for me,  After 3 years of suffering RSI from working at a PC, I was desperate, and had tried regular medicine, and even acupuncture (this last, I'm still on, and it works) but the best relief I have found was from the series of exercises found on this book. From upper-body to hand-fingers, this book (Comprised of mostly full-page illustrations) helps you relieve the symptoms of your RSI. I can't say I don't have any pain anymore, but I can say it has greatly reduced, and improving. There is little text in this book, dealing mostly with how you should do the repetitions and how to avoid further injury, then it is right ot the action with the diagrams and instructions for every exercise. If you have an RSI try this book, and also check for your posture while working, seating, and standing.  Mario G. Perez Fonseca "Gerry Blue" (Guitarland)

Indispensable for anyone suffering from RSI, This is the book I return to again and again, since the exercises, which are gentle and easy to do, really do help on tense and injured muscles and tissue. The book is very much focused on the drawings of the exercises with helpful text on the sides and references to important intro text scattered throughout to help you remember the essentials of safe stretching. Very easy to use book, and the exercises do help! P. M. Jacobsen "Odinsruner" (Birkerød, Denmark, Scandinavia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

"I use the exercises whenever I develop tightness as a result of playing the piano. I feel immediate release and relief."—K. Brown, Piano Instructor

"These exercises are minor miracles! If the ABC's in school included this kind of stretching, we'd have a far healthier country!"—H. Haven, House Doctor

"I experienced immediate relief using this exercise program. I could feel my hands and arms releasing years of tension. No 'experts' could do this for me. My life is finally getting back in order."
—D. Gentile, Seamstress

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