Getting Your ADL Groove In Gear With PAPS: Preparing for Surgery: Living Your Life after Surgery (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781660099191)

This book can help gardeners prepare their yards and gardens before surgery and how to realize a more active, pain-free life-style after an orthopedic procedure. This one book can help you prepare for orthopedic surgery and help you return to your daily activities with better preparation and better post-surgery recovery with greater confidence. This book is for gardeners, golfers, tennis players, runners, walkers, cyclists, swimmers, active sports people and anyone who would like greater flexibility and mobility after surgery. Millenniums, seniors and everyone in between will benefit from the dozens of practical suggestions, from pre- to post-surgery. Through six easy-to-read modules with hundreds of photos, charts and illustrations, Larry Cipolla shows you how to prepare for and recover from your orthopedic surgery with safe and proven protocols targeted to specific body parts--neck-shoulders, elbows-wrists and hands, upper and lower back, hips-knees and feet-ankles--so you can get your lifestyle back in gear, safely and effectively. What will you learn? This all-inclusive guide can help you realize a better quality of life by ....Helping you cope with the pain and lack of full mobility associated with arthritis. How non-surgical options can lessen pre-surgery concerns and anxiety. How to organize your indoor and outdoor living spaces to maximize accessibility. How to navigate with assistive aids safely--crutches, walkers, knee-walkers and wheel-chairs--after surgery. How to perform sports and other activities with better flexibility and conditioning. How to start a low-impact exercise program regardless of age, weight or physical condition. How to ask better questions to get better answers from your medical care-team. How a non-food, no-fad diet can help you lose weight and stop smoking without medication How some botanicals and natural-products can cause allergies, rashes and other ailments. How to use easy and low-impact exercises to build your strength and endurance.

Author: Larry Cipolla
ISBN-10: 1660099196
ISBN-13: 9781660099191
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 04/03/2020
Pages: 330
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.69d