Stretch and Strengthen for Rehabilitation and Development

As a wheelchair user, I use my muscles differently than the able bodied person so an exercise book geared for the able bodied is usually not useful to me. I found this book to be very helpful, with the use of theraband exercise aids (those long, stretchy neon colored things you've all seen) I can work out specific muscle groups and areas of my body as I need. A large number of the exercises can be done in a seated position. The line drawings are clear and very helpful. This would be a good book for anyone, able bodied or not who wants to ease into fitness following an injury, surgery, or just years of couch potato life. The spiral binding made it easy to keep the book open in front of my while doing the stretches. This is a very practical consideration usually overlooked by writers of exercise manuals.

Good stretches given for the exercise or activity. This author knows his subject area and is easy to understand. Thank you for sharing your expertise with others.

Has a lot of helpful stretches for sitting from a chair or wheelchair that I believe help make people feel better. However, it is about the same things as in Bob Anderson's Stretching travel book. If you are only able to sit though, for whatever reason, this should come in handy for you.

As a military man I deal with lots of injuries and rehab situations. This book is very good for helping with the people who tore their shoulders or knees or have hip injuries. They still have to work out with us so this gives them ideas of what they can do while we're doing other stuff.

As a yoga teacher for Seniors, I found this book very helpful since many of my students are only able to do exercises in a chair. I had used many of the exercises already and my students love them. I think its very important to add resistance training to every exercise program, especially our seniors. I purchased flexbands and my seniors love using them. This is a great reference book for anyone who teaches exercises for rehab or seniors.

I work with seniors, primarily those with balance issues, who in turn have strength issues. This small book has given me an unbelievable amount of ideas. Excellent guide, well thought out, good descriptions - and they all work (though to be honest I don't think I'll have any of my clients try the neck exercise). So far I'd call it my best buy of the year.

I did not find this booklet very helpful. It seems the same movements are repeated over and over. I'd recommend using the author's book "Stretching" (a great book)

This is a great little book with easy to follow stretches and strengthening exercises. I bought it to help my husband as he recovers from Guillain Barre. The exercises are easy to adjust to his capabilities. This is perfect for the non-professional (and yet the home health care PT was impressed with it too!) Many of the exercises use Therabands which you will need to buy separately.