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"Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome."
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English Author

Project 1. Appear as role model (or photographer getting your work noticed, or both) in a book I am working on - fixing neck and upper body pain

1. Take photos and short movies. You keep all photo credit.

2. Re-shoot the sample photos, below, and add your own ideas. Sample photos are from stock photo sites and Creative Commons. I'd rather have you, the real readers with your real success stories.

3. Take side by side "wrong" and "fixed" photos. Be so clear that someone who never heard of these concepts can see it for themselves.

For example, here is a set from my Academy student Nahy Milad Bassil:

 

4.  Be funny, be wise, be real (no schtick).

5. If you add captions or thought bubbles to your photo, do it in a layer that can be moved or edited. I will make one format for all, using your ideas to let me see which work best.

6. For photos, take color high resolution 300dpi file size - half a meg, to a meg or less. I will make web photos from them for the eBook. For movies, make short short digital movies in small file size so readers can have instructional movies right in their eBook!

7. E-mail them to me, or put everything on your photo sharing site and send me the link.

go have fun!

Above photo shows forward head vs neutral neck when looking.

Pretty good - getting range to look upward, not only by tilting up the chin, but from entire upper back, in relaxed manner. Take side-by-side photos of craning (bad - three examples in previous photos) vs lifting from chest and neutral neck (good) instead.

Craning/ pinching the neck back/ creating a postural spondylolisthesis when drinking.
Make photos of both bad and fixed position during drinking and eating.

A fun shot to remind people to notice other people.

Lovely relaxed cooking.
Make a "unhealthy" and "fixed" comparison pairs of photos.

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Project 2.  Your Artistic Talent Featured - Design logos for our different projects

             I designed the Main Academy logos

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Also the Academy Humor Department Logo:

 

Alessandro Schiavone designed the AWARDS logo below

 

Be next to add your talents designing a strong visual logo for any of the Academy Programs that are part of Dr. Bookspan's international Academy that work for world health. Perhaps adapt an existing logo for certifications, Fellow advancement, specific web page topics. You retain named credit. While keeping simple, may include all or any of:

Academy name: Academy of Functional Exercise Medicine

Informal Name: Fixa U (tm)   and   School of Healthy Medicine

Motto: Currently  "Making Medicine and Exercise Healthy for People and Communities"

Incorporate Academy ideals: Brains, brawn, common sense, lamp of learning, world care.

 

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Project 3.  Write Songs and Poems

People remember better through song. Got Rhyme Disease? Make memorable rhythms, poems, and rhymes teaching people to bend, reach, walk, move, exercise and live, and avoid neck and back pain from cyber-myalgia in healthy ways:

1. Using my methods, write short instructions for a topic, for example, how to remember good bending, how to move spine from unhealthy to neutral spine, how to prevent disc injury, why to use functional movement rather than isolation exercise, and so on. Also good - ironic observations on unhealthy health care. Keep it short and to the point.

2. Make a poem or song. Spoof a nursery rhyme or parody a pop song. Perform rhymo-plasty. Haiku! Write a palinode on fixing former bad habits. Go all out and make a music video if you want. Make them right, make them funny. Extra credit for limericks (clean only) that accurately describe healthy ways to move and live and /or poke fun at silly dogma.

3. For songs, write your own music or set it to the melody of a known song (with credit and/or apology to the writer).

4. If you're a beat-boxer, make non-verbal inspired rhythmic movies that show concepts in fun healthy memorable ways.

5. Don't post anything on-line or in any public forum without first sending to me for approval. Don't use my name or name of any of my work without direct permission. That would be wrong.

6. Small file size for videos.

 

EXAMPLES:

A Rap Video for healthy bending is on the Fix Back Pain page. I wrote the rap lyrics and a former Marine rapped it for us. Scroll down to "How Long Does It Take" on the the Fix Back Pain page to view the short video.

The same Rap Song as above, plus featuring Backman! (tm) drawings for emphasis on learning, is on the Fix Disc and Sciatica Page - Scroll down to "How Long Does It Take" to see the videos.

Haiku to remind us to fix bad sitting starts out the Healthier Sitting page (just before "Answers in a Nutshell").

 

 

If this Rap for Good Bending does not load, try the direct link on my Flickr page:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/39972966@N03/14470852384/

To see the same rap with emphasis on the Backman! (tm) drawings for better learning, click the Fix Disc and Sciatica page.

 

HURRY - "Rhyme waits for no man."

 

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Project 4.  Take Photos for My Next Book for New Parents

1. Be a role model and success story at the same time you help yourself: Get the same photos you'd take every day any way - daily love with baby.

2. New parents bend and lift constantly all day. Done right, it's functional exercise. Bad bending and overarched overhead lifting make pain and you lose the built in exercise you could have gotten - Take photos of functional happy health:

3. Take photos of all the things you are encountering as new parents:

lifting from floor
lifting from changing table
lifting overhead
carrying on front, back, side, hip
playing
exercising
your good ideas

4. Take photos of the old bad painful way of bending and lifting wrong - and the new healthy way. I will give you helpful feedback so you can learn skills directly and at no charge. I will put them together for side by side photo comparisons, captions and instructions for new parents. You can preserve anonymity with side views and hat on baby if you prefer (privacy and all that)

5. Take side by side "wrong" and "fixed" photos. Be so clear that someone who never heard of these concepts can see it for themselves.

6. Here are baby clothes I made that show a few of the concepts. They are available on CafePress if you want to get them or just see them.

 

 

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Project 5.  Healthy Health Resort.     Also Human Powered Electricity - the JoliElectric (JolieLectric?) Project

It is backwards to burn coal and fuels to power exercise equipment, and to lift artificial weights when there is so much to do in real life - Obscenely backwards. It makes sense (and dollars) to burn the calories to light and restore the world. Yet fitness and medicine have become like fast food - sugared up, with little real content, and not healthy, but sold to the masses in pretty packages.

Solution: Let's open a beautiful simple Center where people come for appointments and classes, learn real health, get better fitter happier, gain job skills, and go home. A nice place with living and teaching space, pond and trees, outdoor space for attendees to learn healthy ways to live, train, good body mechanics for daily bending and lifting, have fun, camp if they prefer to stay outside, plant healthy gardens and eat the results.

Even more interesting - we can make human (and solar) electricity for power and light. I am working on wind-up electricity and power for many simple uses #YouHeardItHereFirst. It does not have to be true that “Turning Sweat into Watts” makes "no economic sense." Laughing children pushing merry-go-rounds that pump village water is healthy for body and sprit. There is far more to "economic sense" than dollars of profit. There are many useful modalities to do this.

No fake glamour - we don't preach simple and build a megachurch. No silly artificial fitness wearing spandex. We return fitness and medicine to health. Green Fitness is the New World Peace.

Until we have our own center, we can come to you. I can bring you a world-class program attracting top physicians, health instructors, and good people who want to fix their pain from all over the world. Do you have a beach location? I will add snorkeling/ swimming/ scuba diving. How about at your University, Sailing ship, or center?

What you can do

1. Help find or build, and run the center. I am a scientist - no sales or marketing knowledge or desire. I do the work as Medical Director. Add your talents. It takes a village. All get healthy, guided, pain relief and honest exercise while making the world a better place as people come and fix their pain and learn healthy strong ways.

2. I can run World Congresses and seminars for physicians and others to learn these methods and fix their own pain. People can attend from all over the world.

3. Engineers needed to design / make simple foot and hand crank lights (called "arm ergometry" when you pay to go to a gym or rehab facility to exercise your shoulder) and set up solar, wind-up, and other healthy energy, even powered by playground fun. When guests come to our World Human Powered Health Resort, they can crank to turn on their room lights, or pedal to belt-run their ceiling fan (charging the solar, wind (or other) battery/capacitor) for fans while sleeping too. Swings and common playground apparatus for health instead of gym machines - for exercise and to power some of the rest of our 'resort' - I call this the JoliElectric Project. This does not have to be a finished project before guests come. You will be in charge of the grad students and interns who will come for the chance to volunteer on this important work

4. I am looking into Tax exempt and grant possibilities. Contact me if you have knowledge and ability to make this happen

5. Kinds of places - old stone and log farmhouse / schoolhouse, old stone church, rambling ranch, Asian retreat, simple buildings for learning and health, open space for classes and airy sleeping accommodations, visiting instructors and students, acres of grounds. Space for music room, sewing room, woodworking, crafting, cooking, gardening, library, more. How about your hot springs, sailing vessel or cruise ship? Your idea here - e-mail me through this page.

6. This can be the location of the Academy and a world health project center, affectionately called Fixa U™.

7. Keep it fun. Keep your sense of humor for names, places, and outlook for this great project - Project 5.

 

I am the first to put Healthy Fitness programs on cruise ships. Previously, no one thought of resorts and cruising for activity.

 

I want to do this while I'm alive. After that, pretenders will spring up and do the opposite of my work and make a buck on it. I have left written instructions (including this) that no one can teach my work for money, who didn't get it correctly and directly with me, and after that, no programs at all depending how well you all do. Things get lost in translation. My Mom studied personally with Joe PIlates when she was a Martha Graham dancer. She told me what he really said - no semblance to what it is degraded to now. Si post fata, venit gloria non propero - if you have to die to be recognized (have glory), I'm not in a hurry ~ An epigram by Marcus Valerius Martialis.

Send your ideas.

To be part of this Great Project, contact me

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Project 7.  Be  a Role Model - How to Send Your Own Stories and Photos

Send your photos with short story demonstrating any of the fixes in my web articles and books. I will add them to the web site, with full credit to you. You retain all photo rights and ownership. This is for betterment of all.

For sending Videos, see Project 9.

 

Examples:

Photos invited for FUNCTIONAL FITNESS (fitness as a real lifestyle),
and Bookspan Basics - short fun drills to retrain fundamental movements to be healthy. Six functional fitness training drills are currently taught on my BOOKSPAN BASICS page. More will be added.

Photos and true story for Patient Success page

Extra Credit for songs, stories, Tweets, blasting myths from the Department of Silly Syndromes and showing Healthy Emotional and Mental Fitness - http://drbookspan.com/Spirit

 

How to do it:

1. Choose your topic. Ideas from list of Fix Pain articles on the Clinical page http://drbookspan.com/clinical, the BOOKSPAN BASICS page, Functional Fitness pag, and others. Learn, understand, practice, and have fun with them. Don't forget Healthy Emotional and Mental Fitness. Also make sure to check the Fixa U School of Healthy Medicine's Department of Silly Syndromes. and the new Math for Health project - #4 on the Academy Honors Page

2. Make small-file size photos of yourself correcting some real thing. Write a short caption, " I learned this and it worked to fix (x,y,z). Or "Thanks, here's my photo of me doing _____"

3. I will give you helpful feedback at no charge so you can learn and better your skills directly and at no charge. I will put the best ones on my site to benefit all with credit to YOU.

4. Trainers, send in your stories of how you use these great training drills in your programs. Success Stories also can go on the Patient Success Page - http://drbookspan.com/PatientStories.

5. Fixes from Bookspan Basics don't have to be with a group. Send photos or videos of yourself, or you teaching another person.

6. Your cool ideas welcome.

 

 

 

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Project 9.  Let's Make a Collection of Teaching Gifs and Short Videos - How to Send Yours

 

"Often, what the mind has not grasped while listening to speech,
sight seizes without risk of error."

- Saint Nikephorsi (758-828 CE)