The Miracle Ball Method : Relieve Your Pain, Reshape Your Body, Reduce Your Stress

Elaine Petrone

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Release Date: 10 December, 2003 Paperback	Book Description Take two-they're small. And they perform miracles. Suffering a career-ending, potentially crippling injury to her back and right leg, a young dancer named Elaine Petrone tried everyone from orthopedists to yogis to turn her pain and prognosis around. Nothing worked-until she healed herself through a unique program of therapy and exercise based around the use of two small, squishy balls. From there she turned her passion into a mission that is helping the thousands of people who visit her classes conquer pain, stress, and injury. Now, for relief for sufferers everywhere, comes The Miracle Ball Method, a healing kit containing two miracle balls and a fully illustrated book, all packaged together in an attention-getting clear plastic cylinder. The work itself is simple. Take a sore back: By resting your aching back on the grapefruit-sized balls and letting your body sink into them, you're unworking the muscles that hurt. Pain and tension drain out of the body. Petrone shows how proper breathing (which she demonstrates) works in conjunction with a range of unexercises that call for placing the balls under the back, head, knees, hip, elbow-wherever there's pain-and then resting, rolling, or rotating on them. She points out that relief can come in surprising ways: Lower back pain may be helped by placing the ball under your neck, or a bad knee might be helped by hip work. It's arevolutionary program of relief, from head to toe. Rating 4.5 sweet relief I have tried everything, 4 chiropractors, 4 Orthopedics, 2 massage therapists, 5 physical therapists, accupuncture, chi gong, meditation, tennis balls, inversion tables, chi machine (which I love) and this is better than all of them. Incredablysimple and powerful. Having spent thousands, this was also quite the bargain. The Ball I heard about this from a few people and bought it at the store. While the exercises are helpful a little- it is not a cure all. It will help your painful spots if you get it in the right place and roll just right other wise it will not help or aleast not for me. I tried a tennis ball in a sock and it worked just as well and the exercises are fun to use but for resolving pain we all need to do exercises. Only for the truly lazy I bought this to help with my going back, hip, shoulder issues. They are ok for pain control. The book that comes with it is too small to hold and read. Basically the balls are for use on trigger points. I use them to help with knees while I do Yoga. I much prefer the Body Rolling system, combined with Yin Yoga. Body rolling adreess the structure problem that causes pain. These balls mostly address just trigger points, and the aurthor does not explain trigger points very well. I suggest you try Body Rolling, instead of Miracle balls. You will not reshape your body with these! good luck in the search for the pain free world!
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