Healthy Martial Arts

 Reader's Choice Award - International EUSA Martial Arts Association Winner

By Dr. Jolie Bookspan. Sports medicine specialist, military scientist, 4th degree Black Belt, 2009 Master Instructor of the Year, and undefeated full contact fighter. Inducted into the International Black Belt Hall of Fame.

Wealth of information for the martial artist, or any athlete or exerciser, to train all aspects of body and spirit:
- Techniques for all athletes.
- Innovative injury reduction techniques during all movement.
- Strength, abdominal training that transfers to real life, flexibility and stretching, injuries, soreness.
- Performance enhancement drugs, products, and foods.
- Nutrition, recipes, make your own healthier sports food and medicines.
- Breathing, speed, balance and agility.
- Spirit, brain power, mental exercise, simple ways to a better world.
- Joint stability, back pain prevention, knee pain, neck pain, communicable diseases, and other pain and injury.
- How to make training and daily life healthy.
- Wheelchair athletes
- Over 200 photographs, 228 pages.

Healthy Martial Arts is the top of the line book (of my books) for serious exercises and athletes.

Health & Fitness in Plain English
How To Be Healthy Happy and Fit For The Rest of Your Life

New THIRD Edition.
31 chapters of step-by-step instructions on what works & what doesn't for healthier brain, spirit, and body:

Health - Heart, cholesterol, diabetes, digestion, osteoporosis, body fat tests, weight loss, mental and emotional health.
Exercise - Abdominal muscles (what they do and don't), neutral spine, healthy body mechanics, stretching, weights, improving balance, functional lifestyle exercise, how to get started, overtraining, exercising with your children and family, making daily life fun and healthful at the same time.
Nutrition - Vitamins, health foods, diets, supplements, drugs, healthy eating, performance enhancing food and products both good and bad, getting started changing bad nutrition habits to healthy ones.
Pain & Injury - Full chapters on fixing discs, neck pain, upper and lower back pain, leg cramps, and headaches. Sections on knee pain, shoulder, and ankle sprains.
Funny Facts about the body.
A to Z GLOSSARY, explains it all with word derivations and stories.

Funny, jam-packed, practical, easy to understand, 379 pages of everything-all-in-one-source. Illustrated with humorous, instructive drawings featuring Backman!™ 

This THIRD edition is the book if you want to be healthier, happier, eat better, fix pain, and learn healthier movement habits. If you only get one book, this is the one. Or as they say, "If you only read one book this year, you should read more."

Second and first editions contain things changed by the editors that I do not agree with.
Second edition has bicyclists on cover. First Edition has red and blue words.
Resellers still resell earlier editions. Make sure you have the new Third Edition. Beach scene on the cover.
Anyone with old first or second editions, contact me to upgrade to new third edition.

The Ab Revolution™ Third Edition Expanded - No More Crunches No More Back Pain
Third edition expanded, reorganized, easier to follow, more examples.

Revolutionary functional core re-training method used by top spine docs, rehab centers, athletes, and military. Not a bunch of exercises. Fun quick techniques to change hyperlordotic lower back angle that causes pain, and straighten spine and pelvic angle to neutral, quickly stopping a major source of lower back pain. Functional strengthening comes from the new healthier way you stand, move, and all you do. Change your knowledge of exercise, posture, back health, neutral spine, and what abs really do. No forward bending that stresses discs and practices bent-forward posture. This method is for the kind of pain usually felt during standing/ walking/ running/ doing yoga and PIlates, pushups (not sitting).

Review by Andrew Seigel, second degree black belt:
I bought this book after attending a seminar with this extraordinary lady - more on that in a moment. The book is invaluable to ANYONE who wants to eliminate back-pain immediately. Most of us have been told so many times to "stand up straight, don't slouch" that we do precisely the wrong thing, over-arching and putting strain and stress on our back each and every day. With Dr. Bookspan's straightforward, no-nonsense approach, you can instantly modify your posture and the pain/ache in your lower back (from swayback) IS GONE! What is deceptive is how easy this is to accomplish and so on first read, you might not totally grasp the concept. Take your time with the book, try each modification and exercise as she clearly explains it, and give it a try. Your first goal should be to stop the pain, your second to start strengthening your abs and back by retraining your daily habits - and let me tell you, you'll thank her for it. I was fortunate enough to attend one of her seminars. That's where she really works her magic, face to face. She utilized the concepts in her book to change the way a room full of martial arts instructors and Grandmasters live their daily lives. For all of our knowledge and experience, Dr. Bookspan provided a collective epiphany to over 60 veteran martial artists, we were all shaking our heads in amazement and smiling at how good our backs felt. It's practical and it WORKS! To her credit, Dr. Bookspan LIVES her healthy lifestyle philosophy. This book is not very big, nor is Dr. Bookspan - but both are filled with tremendous power and wisdom. Everyone could benefit from the Ab Revolution.

Third Edition Expanded - 114 drawings and photos in 124 pages, gym-bag 6x9" size:
Part I - Learn neutral spine for lower back pain control in every day life - no exercise, 49 photos and drawings
Part II - Functional strengthening from simple moves to the toughest you can get. Health requires movement! 65 photos and drawings.

Stretching Smarter Stretching Healthier

Not the same old stretches.

Fun, easy to read, immediately helpful techniques to retrain daily movement habits to stretch functionally. Your daily life becomes a built-in way to increase flexibility and mobility, and stop injuries from bad stretching and movement habits.

Learn innovative real stretches. Learn how to apply healthy movement to daily life, better athletic performance, sitting at your desk, relaxing, and all you do.

Nearly 200 humorous drawings featuring Backman!™ guide you step-by-step.

Fix Your Own Pain – Without Drugs or Surgery

How to fix all your pain, step-by-step:
- Upper and lower back pain, neck pain, shoulder, rotator cuff, hip, knee pain, and foot pain.
- Ankle sprains, Achilles tendonitis, fasciitis, pronation, supination, and flat feet.
- Herniated/ bulging/ slipping/ degenerated discs, sciatica, swayback, lordosis, spondylolisthesis, SI joint,
- Pinched nerve and impingement.
- It's all here, with fun stories from real patients in each chapter that illustrate what works and when.
- Drawings and photos illustrate concepts.

Every page (of 330 total) has specific things to do, things to avoid, things to check for, and/or a story of people who did and didn't fix pain and why.

Diving Physiology In Plain English

The scuba divers cult classic.  New 6th printing blue cover, revised.

Get this hard-to-find edition by research physiologist Dr. Jolie Bookspan, former scientist for the US Navy, Inducted into the NAUI scuba instructor association Hall of Honor, (at right).

A FUN book on Diving Physiology.
All your questions answered, easy to read, and the real stuff.

                 5th printing (green) is OLD VERSION.   Get the new blue.

Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine Review For Physicians
Extensive compendium of information that physicians need to work in hyperbaric medicine. Organized, interesting, and a complete reference of the entire field for anyone physician or non, interested in the field.

Includes diving medicine, physiology, diving and hyperbaric history, practice, physics, and clinical hyperbaric treatment of diving and non-diving conditions. It is also a complete review and study guide for the board exam including sample test questions with answers, step-by-step calculations, and explanations.

Expanded and updated with many new topics including all 13 approved indications for clinical hyperbaric oxygen treatment complete with protocols, equipment, codes, fire safety, and regulations.

To order from The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society:

• Online ordering through The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society
• e-mail uhms@uhms.org
• phone (877) 533-UHMS (877-533-8467)

Hyperbaric Medical Review For Board Certification Exams, CHT/CHRN
Chock-filled, fun to read compendium of diving nursing and chamber technology, physiology, physics, clinical practice, and hyperbaric treatment of diving and non-diving conditions.

Includes all 13 approved indications for clinical hyperbaric oxygen treatment complete with protocols, chamber equipment, codes, fire safety, regulations, patient care, Transcutaneous Oximetry (the whole TCom module) and "How to Take a Test." Prepares you for both the CHT and CHRN certification tests. NEW updated test questions, with answers, step by step calculations, and explanations, all written in Plain English

To order from The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society:

• e-mail uhms@uhms.org
• phone (877) 533-UHMS (877-533-8467)
• No online ordering option at present