Project 1. Appear as role model (or photographer getting your work noticed,
or both) in a new book I am working on - fixing neck 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 well-done 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!
forward head vs
neutral neck when looking
forward head when
reaching up. Hurts the neck and shoulder.
Take "wrong" and" fixed" comparison photos of the same
action
Comparison of known
neck pain with activity thought of as healthy and fit and stopping pain because
it's exercise.
Do all the different sports and rehab exercises you want, with this idea.
All three show common
neck over-pinching/craning habits when looking up.
Make photos of side by side photos of craning (bad, above) vs lifting from
chest and neutral neck (good) instead
Pretty good - lifting
not from chin, but entire upper back, and relaxed
Take new 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 - drinking and eating
A fun shot to remind
people to notice other people
Lovely relaxed cooking.
Make a "bad" and "fixed" comparison pair of photos
oh boy. More unhealthy
yoga for done for health.
Make as many shots that you want of yoga (and other so-called health activities)
doing the opposite of claimed, plus the fix.
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Project 2. Your Artistic Talent Featured -
Design the Academy Logo.
Currently we use this:
Send
your ideas to Dr. Bookspan for a strong visual logo. You retain
named credit. May include all or any of:
Academy
name: Academy of Functional
Exercise Medicine
Informal Name: Fixa U (tm)
Motto:
Currently "Making Medicine and Exercise Healthy for People
and Communities"
Incorporate
Academy ideals: Brains, brawn, common sense, lamp of learning,
world care and scope.
Logo Ideas: Enclose it in a Seal, as idea at left (maybe
laurel leaves is better?), Free Form, as at right, or other ideas you
have.
Click here to see the winner who designed the AWARDS logo below- First
Winner - International Academy of Functional Sports Medicine Logo Design.
Be next to add your talents to AFEM
- Dr. Bookspan's international Academy that works for world health.
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Project 3. Write Songs and Poems.
Got
Rhyme Disease? People remember better through song. 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 Dr. Bookspan's methods, write short instructions for a topic,
for example, how to remember good bending, how to tuck 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.
2.
Make a poem or song. Spoof a Nursery Rhyme. Perform rhymo-plasty. Haiku!
Go all out and make a music video if you want. Make them right, make
them funny. Extra credit for rap and limericks (clean only) that accurately
describe healthy ways to move and live.
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.
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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.
Solution:
Locate and create a beautiful simple Center where people
come to learn real health, gain job skills, get better, and leave.
Clean, real health.
Grounds with pond and trees and outdoor space for attendees to learn healthy
ways to live, bend, lift, and plant healthy food in the gardens. Human
(and solar) electricity for power and light. How about at your University,
Sailing ship, or center?
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.
Beach location? I will add snorkeling/ swimming/ scuba diving. No fake
glamour - we don't preach simple and build a castle. No
silly artificial fitness wearing spandex. Green Fitness is the New World
Peace.
What
you can do
-
Donate
or help find/ build the center, get non-profit status, build human
powered electric prototypes, 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, in perpetuity, as people come and fix their pain and
learn healthy strong ways.
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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
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Engineers
needed to design / make inexpensive hand crank lights (called "arm
ergometry" when you pay to go to a gym or rehab facility to
exercise your shoulder). When guests come to our World Human Powered
Health Resort, they crank to turn on their room lights. They pedal
to belt-run their ceiling fan (charging the battery/capacitor) for
fans while sleeping too. Pedal power in the health center - guests
pedal for exercise which runs most of the rest of our 'resort' -
I call this the JoliElectric
Project.
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I
am looking into Tax exempt and grant possibilities. Contact me if
you have knowledge and ability to make this happen.
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I can run World Congresses and seminars for physicians and others
to learn these methods and fix their own pain. People can flock
from all over the world to come get better in the sun and sand and
maybe get some exercise :-)
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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/dorms, 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.
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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. Fitness and medicine has become fast food - sugared up,
little real content, not healthy. We return fitness and medicine to health.
This can be the location of our academy and world health project center,
affectionately called Fixa U™).
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 correct 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.
Check
back HERE as we add more to this.
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