Pain free
by Pete Egoscue · first published 2021
6mentions
5recommended by
5HN commenters
2009–2018first – last mentioned
100% recommend
Why HN recommends it
Offers a practical posture and exercise method for chronic pain, especially neck, back and joint problems from desk work. It teaches readers how to hold the body correctly and has provided real relief.
Summarised by Claude from recommending comments
Affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
…stand on one leg and roll my hip & waist out to the side extending it behind me -- that helps alleviate tension in the side. Similar - hanging on my forearms from chairs or those ab machines at the gym. Pain Free (a method for stopping chronic pain) has 4.5 stars over 800 reviews @ http://www.amazon.com/Pain-Free-Revolutionary-Stopping-Chron...
on “Posture for a Healthy Back” ↗I'm trying to get my posture back into alignment after many years of stress. This book helped me: http://www.amazon.com/Pain-Free-Revolutionary-Stopping-Chron... It gives you a set of targeted exercises depending on your self-diagnosis. His secret weapon is the 'Supine Groin Stretch', shown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXYQWFkVTDI.…
on “Ask HN: What are you doing to look after your posture?” ↗…toe because a mouse was too painful. I even dabbled with voice recognition software for programming (pretty inefficient, as you might imagine). What finally cured me was a physical therapy book called "Pain Free: A Revolutionary Method for Stopping Chronic Pain by Pete Egoscue" (http://amzn.com/0553379887). This book completely changed my life. The exercise can seem a bit odd, but they worked amazingly well…
on “Ask HN: Wrist Pain” ↗Pete Egoscue's book "Pain Free" is IMO, the best book for understanding correct posture and how to achieve it. https://www.amazon.com/Pain-Free-Revolutionary-Stopping-Chro...
on “We have an epidemic of bad posture” ↗…gong routines, weigh training, osteopathy, surgery and lots more. I think there's a lot of evidence people should try to avoid surgery. Two people I respect who had tried everything else rave about "Pain Free" by Pete Egoscue. The reason for my comment is that in my experience, back pain is treatable much more often than people think. But no one thing seems to work for everybody. And the level of talent and…
on “For back pain, the subtle moves of the Feldenkrais Method can help some people” ↗I'll pitch in with one that hasn't been mentioned yet. The Egoscue method: http://www.egoscue.com/meetpete.php. In particular Pete Egoscue's book Pain Free. I had a horribly seized neck a while ago where I couldn't look over my left shoulder. This had come on after visiting a physio for a very stiff upper back (a legacy of military service and lots of programming).…
on “Fixing the computer guy posture [pdf]” ↗