Scott Tinley, Ironman triathlete, author, professor

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Scott Tinley currently teaches English and “Sport and Society” at San Diego State University.

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Bob Gajda, kinesiotherapist (RKT), AAU Mr. America, Mr. USA winer and Mr. Universe winner, author

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Bob Gajda has an impressive list of clients that have benefited from training and methods available from the Gajda Health Plus Network located in Palatine, Illinois.

Football:  Mike Singletary, Jim McMahon, Dave Duerson, Donnell Woolford, Gary Fencik, James Allen, Alonzo Spellman, Neil Anderson
Hockey:  Al Secord, Dennis Savard, Doug Wilson
Tennis:  John McEnroe, Katrina Adams, Tracey Austin, Andrea Yeager, Susie Starett
Baseball:  Bill Buckner, Eric Soderholm
Soccer:  Arno Stefenhagen, Pato Margetic.

Gajda introduced a breakthrough book, Total Body Training in 1982, but a book with some controversy over discouraging stretching.

Gajda Health Plus Network

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Kenneth Cooper, M.D., physician, USAF Colonel

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Kenneth Cooper, M.D. is the founder of the Cooper Aerobics Center in Texas. He is also the founder of the non-profit research and education organization, The Cooper Institute, which was opened in 1970. Author of numerous books on cardiovascular fitness.

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George Sheehan, physician, author, running enthusiast
November 5, 1918 – November 1, 1993

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Jim Fixx, fitness enthusiast book author
April 23, 1932 – July 20, 1984

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Fixx started running in 1967 at age 35. He weighed 240 pounds and smoked two packs of cigarettes per day. Ten years later, with his book, The Complete Book of Running, at 11 weeks No. 1 on the best-seller list, he was 60 pounds lighter and no longer a smoker.

Seventeen years later Fixx died at the age of 52 of a massive heart attack, following his daily run, on Route 15 in Hardwick, Vermont. Autopsy revealed that atherosclerosis had blocked one coronary artery 95%, a second 85%, and a third 50%. Running critics claimed his death was proof running was harmful. But running advocates argued that Fixx possessed a poor health histories. His father suffered a heart attack at the age of 35 and later died of another heart attack at age 42. Comparing Jim Fixx’s longevity to his father’s, many argued that running added years to his life.

Hans Kraus, physician, rock climber
Known as the American “Father of Sports Medicine”

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Kraus was an Associate Professor at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine. His studies on children led to President Dwight D. Eisenhower establishing the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. He treated President John F. Kennedy’s for back pain and treated celebrities including Arthur Godfrey and Katharine Hepburn.

Attended medical school in Vienna in the 1920s, becoming an orthopedic surgeon.

Contrary to traditional medicine, developed method known as “immediate mobilization” in treatment.

Developed a progressive understanding of the underlying causes of back pain after suspecting that muscular imbalance was a contributing factor of back pain.

Co-developed the Kraus-Weber test in the early 1950’s that showed that American youth were seriously deficient in muscle strength and muscle flexibility.

Elected U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame in 1974.

Authored the book, Backache, Stress and Tension: Their Cause, Prevention and Treatment

According to Dr. Norman Marcus nearly one million spine surgeries are performed in the U.S. each year, with a failure rate as high as 50 percent and with too many patients either undergoing spinal surgery that is doomed to fail, or with patients taking mind-altering drugs to manage, but not end, their pain.

At the Norman Marcus Pain Institute the rationale for back pain treatment is that muscles are the primary source of chronic back pain and that muscle pain can almost always be successfully treated without surgery or drugs.

Even among people who had given up hope on ridding their back pain, Dr. Marcus has a protocol and treatment plan for back pain relief for thousands of people that some describe as miraculous. In a survey of 300,000 people, 80 percent reported complete elimination of pain or considerable relief.

The protocol was learned from Dr. Hans Kraus, a legendary physical medicine and rehabilitation specialist who successfully treated U.S. president John F. Kennedy with muscle-strengthening exercises and trigger point injections. The injections do not include steroids or anesthetics. The injections affect trigger points, which are described as painful muscles knots.

The common, popular of perception of pain is that there is damage to tissue that requires rest to heal. This is true for lacerations, muscle tears, tendon ruptures and fractured bones, but it is not true for most pain that involves muscle tissue. The Norman Marcus Pain Institute outlines four mechanisms that contribute to soft tissue or muscle tissue pain (tension, deficiencies, spasm and trigger points):

Tension. Psychological stress or prolonged postural positions that cause prolonged muscle tension can result in back, neck and head pain. Prolonged feelings of anger, fear and anxiety can result in prolonged muscular tightness, which can cause pain and discomfort, which can cause more fear and anxiety — a vicious cycle.

Deficiencies. Muscles that are out of shape lead to weakness and stiffness which cause pain when muscles are forced to work beyond their capacity.

Spasm. A muscle that is contracting involuntarily can cause pain and the inability to move properly (e.g., standing up straight, pain and stiffness turning your neck freely).

Trigger Points. Small hard, tense areas of muscles that are silent with rest and immobility, but are painful during motion and activity. Trigger point pain might mimic a herniated disc.

Dr. Marcus also uses a compact muscle pain detection instrument known as the Muscle Pain Detection Device (MPDD) that was developed in conjunction with Stevens Institute of Technology to help identify muscles that are causing pain in any area of the body, including low back pain, shoulder pain, neck pain, sciatica, frozen shoulder, fibromyalgia and headache.

Dr. Marcus, a past president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, is Clinical Associate Professor in Anesthesiology and Psychiatry and Director of Muscle Pain Research at the NYU School of Medicine.

Dr. Hans Kraus is recognized as the father of sports medicine in America and was the driving force behind the President’s Council on Physical Fitness.

More information …
NMPI.com
Stevens Institute of Technology

Freedom from Pain on Amazon …
by Norman J. Marcus, M.D.