In this book, the author discusses his ground-breaking approach to treating chronic musculoskeletal pain, drawn from decades in his Denver, Colorado orthopedic physical therapy clinic. Using a holistic yet evidence-based strategy to solving the body's pain mysteries, he provides insight and hope to those seeking answers, arguing that the key is to recognize that the location of pain has little to do with where the pain actually originates. The book takes the reader on a journey of self-discovery, revealing unique body connections at the root of chronic pain, and includes real patient stories about how this approach helped with everything from sciatica to migraines.

Fixing You: Foot & Ankle Pain describes issues creating chronic foot and ankle pain. Factors involved in these problems are foot strike patterns, the shape of the thigh bones, foot muscle function, calf tightness, and the shape of the foot. Fixing You: Foot & Ankle Pain discusses strategies to correct these problems including taping and techniques to release chronically tight musculature. Additionally this book discusses tips to select foot orthoses and offers some thoughts on minimalist running.

Hip and knee pain often result from poor movement habits, which then create excessive stress to tissues such as bone, ligament, and tendons. Fixing You: Hip & Knee Pain is an easy-to-read guide, teaching the reader how their hips and knees should work and why problems occur when they don't. Fixing You: Hip & Knee Pain uses plenty of illustrations and photos as well as real client stories to show the reader how the body is supposed to work. This book addresses diagnoses such as arthritis, bursitis, ITB Friction Syndrome, anterior knee pain SI joint dysfunction and more. Video clips of all exercises in the book can be found on www.FixingYou.net to ensure proper form and therefore quicker results.

Fixing You: Shoulder & Elbow Pain highlights the shoulder blade as the primary culprit in shoulder and elbow problems. If the shoulder blade does not move properly, adverse stress is placed on the shoulder joint because the upper arm bone will not rest or move well either. Fixing You: Shoulder & Elbow Pain teaches you why this occurs and how to fix it. Problems with shoulder blade function, by extension, establish the environment for elbow injuries such as tennis elbow or golfers elbow. For this reason, to fix chronic elbow pain, problems must be addressed at both the shoulder and elbow. Fixing pain in the shoulder and elbow is much like fixing pain anywhere in the body. You must understand which muscles and joints are not working well and grasp how those problems feed poor movement habits which then reinforce the original poor muscle and joint function. This creates a cycle of pain. Visit www.FixingYou.net to learn more.

Fixing You: Neck Pain & Headaches is an easy-to-use self-help guidebook to fixing just about every type of neck pain. This is because, no matter what the diagnosis, painful issues of the neck have the same root causes; that of poor neck function and poor shoulder function. These root problems can be easily corrected through the exercises found in this book. Visit www.FixingYou.net for more information. Rick Olderman MSPT, CPT and Pilates instructor is a physical therapist with over a decade of experience working with difficult chronic and acute injuries. Rick's typical clients are those who have been to a variety of specialists and health care practitioners with little or no change in their pain. Often these clients feel significant if not complete relief in 1-3 sessions after using the Fixing You approach. How does Rick do this? Through assessing and correcting improper biomechanics at the root of all neck pain. Rick reveals his secrets in Fixing You: Neck Pain & Headaches to guide you in assessing your injuries through simple tests and then give you specific exercises correcting the biomechanics leading to your pain. Readers will also have FREE access to video clips of all assessments and exercises found in Fixing You: Neck Pain & Headaches. This ensures that you are both assessing and correcting your injuries properly. No other book has ever done so much to help you beat your pain.