Our mission at SD REHAB revolves strongly around education. As a community based physical rehabilitation and fitness studio, we have the unique opportunity to assist many people with their health and fitness goals through individualized and group sessions. As our studio grows, it seems natural to expand the ways in which we bring our recommendations and expertise to the community. We have developed this section to do exactly that! Browse our "book and product picks" below to find out what we are reading, eating, listening to-and what our favorite new fitness product may be. We want to share these thoughts with you and make them easily accessible through the links provided below. There is so much to learn about our bodies and our health and SD REHAB wants to help guide you along your personal path to well-being. Visit often, we will be adding new favorites regularly.
Feel free to share your favorites with us too! Send yours to Stephanie@sdrehab.com. The path is endless and I am dedicated to staying on it!
-Stephanie
Kinesio Tex Tape
With over 25 years of research, development and clinical use, Kinesio Tex Tape Gold, with the original wave-pattern adhesive design, has become the standard in elastic therapeutic taping. Kinesio Tex Tape Gold offers a gentle and effective approach to re-education of the neruromuscular system while also improveing blood/lymph circulation, relieving pain and providing comfort and stability for your patient care needs. Ideal for patellofemoral treatment, shin splints, plantar fasciitis, rotator cuff injuries and carpal tunnel syndrome. Kinesio Tex Tape Golds 2 design is our most versatile size of tape. The 2 design is perfect for your average sized patient and is easy to use for all four of our most common taping strips (I strip, Y strip, X strip and Fan strip). Our 2 tape is perfect for taping applications all over the body.
Still Point Inducer
Recommended by chiropractors, massage therapists, and craniosacral therapists, this tool can help to release accumulated stress by relaxing the autonomic nervous system. It has been claimed that the Still Point Inducer can even lower a fever as much as four degrees farenheit. The Still Point Inducer may also have a positive effect on chronic and acute musculoskeletal problems including degenerative arthritis.
Step Stretch Unilateral Stretching System Plantar Fasciitis Therapy
Patented stretching and conditioning device for the lower leg muscles, tendons and ligaments. ProStretch's unique stretching system formulated to exercise one leg at a time. Whether you are a scholastic, recreational or professional athlete, a runner, swimmer or football player, your chances of being injured during sports remain high. Even in non-contact sports, injuries range from nagging plantar fasciitis (an inflammation of the tissue on the bottom of the foot) to Achilles tendonitis, ankle sprains. cramping calves and hamstring pulls, among many others. The best way to treat an injury is to prevent it from happening in the first place!
Prostretch - Heel Stretch Device
The Fit Stretch is ideal for stretching and rehabilitation of the ankle, Achilles tendon, and calf muscles. Unique rocking feature allows dynamic stretching of the lower leg.
Hi Density Foam Roller
FOLLERs(TM) have become on the most widely used therapeutic and conditiong product available. Don't let their simple design fool you - FOLLERs (short for Foam Roller) easily adapt to a variety of techniques including mobilization, balance, and strength training, and can be used effectively in many positions....supine, prone, sitting, kneeling, lying on your side, or standing.
Small 6 inch IT Band Foam Roller
Same as the Hi Density Foam Roller above, but a smaller size. This 6" x 12" foam roller is the second most popular size.
STOTT PILATES DVD Back Care Series
With the single largest collection of pilates videos worldwide, STOTT PILATES' results-oriented mind-body exercise system has enhanced the lives of millions of people, just like you.
The choices for DVD's include: Be Kind to Your Spine, Pain-Free Posture and Standing Tall.
Be sure to select which DVD you want before placing your order.
The Miracle Ball Method
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.
Stott Pilates Toning Ball
Soft weighted balls fit comfortably into the palm of the hand. Incorporate into matwork routines to increase intensity and bring awareness to shoulder girdle stability or target desired muscle groups.
Stott Pilates Toning Ball Gift Pack
The Toning Ball Gift Pack will help you get maximum toning results in minimum time. Soft, hand-held weights are perfectly portable and can be incorporated into a variety of exercises that will help sculpt strong, healthy muscles without building bulk. Includes: Amazing Tone DVD, two 1 lb. weighted Toning Balls and bonus exercise poster.
Serola Sacroiliac Belt
The NEW Serola Sacroiliac Belt is designed to compress and support the sacroiliac joints, thereby relieving stress and instability. Just as importantly, it is not so tight that it is restrictive. Excess or insufficient motion can adversely affect the entire musculoskeletal system. The Serola Sacroiliac Belt, by providing the correct balance of resistance and resilience, re-establishes the joint?ÇÖs normal motion.
Because of the stability the Serola Sacroiliac Belt gives to the base of your spine, strength is increased throughout your back, hips, and legs, and your chances of injury are lessened considerably during work or play.
The NEW Serola Sacroiliac Belt is the same belt in basic function as the original but with a significant change in comfort and grip. The first layer is changed from cotton to an open-cell urethane foam.
Migraine Brain: Your Breakthrough Guide to fewer Headaches and Better Health.
Praised for her excellence and compassion, the founder of the Women's Headache Center near Boston, and a migraine sufferer herself, Dr. Bernstein has helped hundreds of her patients get better. Now, with The Migraine Brain, the most comprehensive, up-to-the-minute book on migraines ever written, you will be able to do the same.
Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience to Happiness, Love and Wisdom
If you change your brain, you can change your life. Great teachers like the Buddha, Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, and Gandhi were all born with brains built essentially like anyone else’s—and then they changed their brains in ways that changed the world. Science is now revealing how the flow of thoughts actually sculpts the brain, and more and more, we are learning that it's possible to strengthen positive brain states.
The Nursing Mother's Companion
Breastfeeding has major benefits for both you and your baby-- it provides the best nutrition (according to the American Academy of Pediatrics and the World Health Organization), it saves money (on sick-baby doctor visits and formula and bottles), and it creates a unique bond between you and your child. Breastfeeding is not always easy, but with proper guidance and encouragement, you can overcome almost any challenge you may encounter and continue to breastfeed for as long as you choose.
The Brain That Changes Itself:
Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
This book is full of well chosen and detailed stories about triumph over adversity. Throughout this book we are shown the extraordinary responses of the human brain in releation to injury and assault. The author maps out the increasing body of evidence showing that the brain is highly adaptable and undergoes change throughout life. Are we really tapping into our full potential as humans? Read this to find out more about how we can positively affect the changes going on in our brain.
Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom:
Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing
Quite possibly every female over the age of 12 will find this huge book enlightening, pain saving, and perhaps even lifesaving. Think of it as a much more empowering and holistic Our Bodies, Ourselves. Northrup is a gynecologist who acknowledges the power of natural therapies and herbs, but also maintains that allopathic treatments, including surgery, are sometimes best. In Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom, she covers the treatment of many physical concerns--among them PMS, menstrual cramps, breast cancer, fibroids, endometriosis, infertility, depression, childbirth, abortion, cystitis, and menopause--explaining how many of these physical problems have roots in emotional upsets. For example, a woman who is unhappy with her marriage may be infertile because deep down, she knows that her husband is not the right man to have children with; a teenager who has cramps may be having problems accepting society's expectations of her as a woman.
The Wisdom of Menopause:
Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing During the Change, 2nd Edition
Menopause doesn't have to be a dreaded curse of aging during which we can look forward only to hot flashes and whacked-out hormonal mood swings. According to Christiane Northrup, M.D. (Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom), menopause often marks the beginning of a woman's most sexually passionate, creatively inspired, and professionally productive phase of life.
Wake Up Inspired
In seeking deeper personal fulfillment and continued professional success? You can pay attention to your callings and pay your bills.
This new book helps today's achieving women to go beyond "balance" and blend both a healthy, joyful spirit and real world ambition.
My Stroke of Insight
On the morning of December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist, experienced a massive stroke when a blood vessel exploded in the left side of her brain. A neuroanatomist by profession, she observed her own mind completely deteriorate to the point that she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life, all within the space of four brief hours. As the damaged left side of her brain--the rational, grounded, detail- and time-oriented side--swung in and out of function, Taylor alternated between two distinct and opposite realties: the euphoric nirvana of the intuitive and kinesthetic right brain, in which she felt a sense of complete well-being and peace; and the logical, sequential left brain, which recognized Jill was having a stroke, and enabled her to seek help before she was lost completely.
The Happiest Toddler on the Block
Toddlers can drive you bonkers...so adorable and fun one minute...so stubborn and demanding the next! Yet, as unbelievable as it sounds, there is a way to turn the daily stream of "nos" and "don'ts" into "yeses" and hugs...if you know how to speak your toddler's language. In one of the most useful advances in parenting techniques of the past twenty-five years, Dr. Karp reveals that toddlers, with their immature brains and stormy outbursts, should be thought of not as pint-size people but as pintsize...cavemen.
Zen Shorts
"Michael," said Karl. "There's a really big bear in the backyard." This is how three children meet Stillwater, a giant panda who moves into the neighborhood and tells amazing tales. To Addy he tells a story about the value of material goods. To Michael he pushes the boundaries of good and bad. And to Karl he demonstrates what it means to hold on to frustration. With graceful art and simple stories that are filled with love and enlightenment, Jon Muth -- and Stillwater the bear -- present three ancient Zen tales that are sure to strike a chord in everyone they touch.
Zen Ties
In this companion to Muth's Caldecott Honor - winning Zen Shorts (2006), the wise and gentle Giant Panda Stillwater and his young friends are joined by Stillwater's young nephew Koo. This time, the friends tackle two problems: Michael's nervousness over an impending spelling bee and an irascible elderly neighbor, Miss Whitaker. The plot is predictable: With some friendly attention from Stillwater and the children, Miss Whitaker will turn out to be more vulnerable than nasty and, as a former English teacher, will help Michael overcome his spelling anxiety. The pleasure, as always, is with Muth's irresistible storytelling, both visual and textual. In most of the delicate, finely detailed watercolor paintings the towering figure of Stillwater dominates. In others, the frail figure of Miss Whitaker dressed in red and purple with a magnificent fluff of white hair carries the most visual weight. The story's theme of intergenerational kindness is tender, and the text is infused with bits of haiku, wordplay and small lessons that charmingly avoid didacticism.
The Three Questions
Award-winning illustrator Jon J Muth's lovely watercolors are the most appealing aspect of this book about compassion and living in the moment. The simple Zen-based profundity of the boy's philosophical exploration may escape young readers, but they will enjoy the tale of a child who, in doing good deeds (for a panda and her baby, no less!), finds inner peace. Muth based his story on a short story of the same title by Leo Tolstoy. (Ages 5 to 9)
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
A respected Zen master in Japan and founder of the San Francisco Zen Center, Shunryu Suzuki has blazed a path in American Buddhism like few others. He is the master who climbs down from the pages of the koan books and answers your questions face to face. If not face to face, you can at least find the answers as recorded in Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, a transcription of juicy excerpts from his lectures. From diverse topics such as transience of the world, sudden enlightenment, and the nuts and bolts of meditation, Suzuki always returns to the idea of beginner's mind, a recognition that our original nature is our true nature. With beginner's mind, we dedicate ourselves to sincere practice, without the thought of gaining anything special. Day to day life becomes our Zen training, and we discover that "to study Buddhism is to study ourselves." And to know our true selves is to be enlightened.
Baby 411
Dr. Spock meets Judge Judy--finally a parenting book that separates fact from fiction. What if you could bottle the wisdom of all those parents who've come before you...and combine them with the sold medical advice from an award-winning pediatrician? Baby 411 is the answer.
BabyBjörn Baby Carrier Original
A simple yet uniquely designed baby carrier that is comfortable and easy to use. This carrier keeps your baby close to you, while providing excellent support for your baby’s head and back. In addition, the design allows you to keep your hands free. It adjusts to your baby’s changing size and the amount of head and neck support needed. A perfect carrier for the active parent or to just to comfort your baby.
Boppy Classic Nursing Pillow with Soft Boa Slipcover
One of the best pillows you’ll find with multiple uses. It puts your body in correct ergonomic position for breast or bottle feeding or your baby can use it for tummy time, learning to sit or as an added support for play.
ORGANIC NursEase Breastfeeding Shawl - Organic Medium Brown with Floral Trim
It is a discreet and fashionable way to breastfeed while on the go. It allows for full front and back coverage while easily viewing your baby. A must for busy moms.
Leachco Snoogle Total Body Pillow
This pillow will make sleeping easier and more comfortable. It easily adjusts to your ever changing body throughout pregnancy and provides support in all the right places.
Factory of Worms - 3 Tray Bin
Worm composting is an incredibly efficient way to convert kitchen "waste" into nutrient rich food for the Earth! Not only is this form of recycling easy, odorless, and educational for the kids, it is a way to be a responsible citizen of the Earth.
The Factory of Worms design makes the process simple for everyone, whether you live in an apartment or home. The multi-tiered design automatically separates food scraps from finished compost. Simply fill the bottom tray with red wriggler composting worms, bedding and food scraps. As these top feeding worms finish digesting, they will naturally seek more food and migrate upward into the tray above which has newly added goodies, leaving rich compost behind. This substance is great for your houseplants, garden and for the earth in general. Return the nutrients to the earth so the cycle of life can continue naturally and efficiently. Don’t worry, your pets won’t be interested, the worms convert your waste in a timely and odorless manner.
Each Worm Tower comes with full instructions and everything you need to get started. Contact Urban Worm Girl to order bins, worms, bedding as well as to schedule an in *home set up
*available in the Chicagoland area only
Getting Unstuck (Audiobook)
An urge comes up, we succumb to it, and it becomes stronger. We reinforce our cravings, habits, and addictions by giving in to them repeatedly. Pema Chödrön guides us through this "sticky feeling" and offers us tools for learning to stay with our uneasiness, soften our hearts toward others, and ourselves and live a more peaceful life in the fullness of the present moment.
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