Your Body Book

Your Body Book helps you stay healthy and heal when injured or in pain. It provides information about your body, specifically the musculoskeletal system — muscles, bones, and joints. This self-help health care book includes a head-to-toe review of the body, identifies problems and solutions to decrease pain and swelling, offers health tips and illustrated exercises to restore motion, improve strength, and promote healing. The book provides basic health information written for the general public to help us successfully manage our health and health care cost$. Not only is “The head bone connected to the neck bone . . .” but every system in the body is interconnected. Your physical body is intimately related to your mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Your Body Book can help you decrease pain, as well as fear, worry, and anxiety, so you can restore your health. This book is written for you by an orthopedic manual physical therapist, trained in assessing and treating musculoskeletal problems, with over 33 years of hands-on experience.

Your Body Book helps you stay healthy and heal when injured or in pain. It provides information about your body, specifically the musculoskeletal system — muscles, bones, and joints. This self-help health care book includes a head-to-toe review of the body, identifies problems and solutions to decrease pain and swelling, offers health tips and illustrated exercises to restore motion, improve strength, and promote healing. The more you know, the more successfully you can manage your health and health care cost$. Not only is “The head bone connected to the neck bone . . .” but every system in the body is interconnected. Your physical body is intimately related to your mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. With decreased pain, fear, worry, and anxiety you can have improved health and well-being. This book is written for you by an orthopedic manual physical therapist, trained in assessing and treating musculoskeletal problems, with over 33 years of hands-on experience. She is passionate about empowering people, through education, to successfully manage their health. The material in this book is based on the author's knowledge and practice and is intended to help the general public. It provides general health information; consult health care professionals with specific medical conditions.

Doranne Long has practiced physical therapy since 1981 after receiving a Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy from the University of Puget Sound, in Tacoma, Washington. In 1988, she completed a Master of Science in Physical Therapy at Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions in Boston. She specializes as an orthopedic manual physical therapist, and has worked in clinics, rehabilitation centers, hospitals, and in home health. She believes it is vital to care for ourselves physically, as well as mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. She is passionate about empowering individuals, through education, to successfully manage their health.