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Dr. Pascarelli's Complete Guide to Repetitive Strain Injury: What You Need to Know About RSI and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
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| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Category: | Paperback |
| Number of Items: | 1 |
| ISBN: | 0471388432 |
| Label/Manufacturer: | Wiley |
Product Description
One of the world’s leading authorities on repetitive strain injury tells you how to prevent, treat, and recover from RSILiving with repetitive strain injury (RSI) can be painful, exasperating, and devastating. If you’ve given up hope that there is any help for your symptoms, if you’ve tried medications, wrist splints, neck braces, and exercises--and have had only temporary relief--this book is for you. Dr. Emil Pascarelli, one of the world’s leading authorities on RSI, offers a comprehensive, prescriptive, practical, and long-awaited sequel to his bestselling Repetitive Strain Injury. You’ll read all about the advances in RSI diagnosis, treatment,and prevention that have occurred since the publication of the previous book. Inside is welcome advice on:
- Recognizing the early signs and risk factors of RSI before they lead to a serious or debilitating condition
- Finding the right doctor, the right diagnosis, and the right treatment
- Preventing RSI using commonsense solutions such as keyboard techniques, posture, and workstation setup
- Employing practical methods to regain the use of muscles, nerves, and tendons that have been damaged by RSI
- Relieving not only the pain but also the emotional stress that so often accompanies RSI
- Following specific warnings for musicians and other at-risk professionals
Because symptoms of RSI are rarely visible, health professionals, employers, and fellow employees often cannot understand what a sufferer of RSI is going through. This book is the best way to understand RSI and learn what you can do about it.
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Customer Reviews
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on 2010-07-07I was hoping for a more complete discourse on Focal Dystonia, which is a pretty common musician's malady. There is some material, but I found a lot more in "Musicophilia" by Oliver Sack. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition. The resources were pretty good overall, although it's also helpful to serarch the Internet on your own, because so many musicians and others are publishing their personal experiences and describing ways they found to deal with the problem - including what did not work. For instance, I found two guitarists who tried Botox treatment, one of the standard treatments, with very negative results.
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on 2009-12-06This book covers the scientific and medical knowledge about repetitive strain injury. It discusses the symptoms and causes, and sometimes awareness itself can begin the healing process. It will motivate RSI sufferers to set up ergonomic workstations and to seek medical help when necessary. The book also mentions the emotional factors that can lead to RSI, which is something that not people are aware of.
The reason that I am giving it four stars, is that it does not cover enough treatment options for this condition. Fortunately, many physical therapists are familiar with massage therapy, stretching programs that could help relieve the symptoms. Overall, I think it is a good and informative read, but more research is necessary if someone wants to overcome this condition. Dora Farkas, Author, "The Smart Way to Your Ph.D.:200 Secrets from 100 Graduates"
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on 2009-10-14A few months after starting a demanding programming job, my hands started hurting. A co-worker recommended an earlier version of this book. Actually, he said, "Leave work, go to the bookstore and buy and read it and don't come back until you finish it."
Pascarelli has a ton of information about RSI in this book, all of which makes sense. His main thesis is that RSI is easy to prevent and hard to cure, and his advice on how to avoid it is excellent.
If your hands are hurting, do like my co-worker said. Get this book right away and read it.
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on 2009-09-24I found this book to be easy to understand and very in depth. After reading it I went to my doctor with questions and I feel I was able to get more out of the expensive visit. Highly recommended.
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on 2009-09-08A few good sketches of body parts, but the general information in this book was not of much use to me. I have put the book away, and will not likely look at it again. I think that the money would be better spent on other books of this nature that include more specifics.
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