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Musicians, Muscles, and Myotherapy
“Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat.” ~From the book jacket Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks...
Babies Have Muscle Pain Too
EVEN THOUGH most babies are very welcome, the race for the door can be time consuming and exhausting for both mother and baby. Seldom do babies just slip through the exit. More likely they bang their head against a seemingly solid wall… and slowly a door opens....
Baby Needs Exercise Too!
BONNIE PRUDDEN first launched her Fitness from the Cradle program of infant exercise in the Sports Illustrated May issue of 1960, which was also the week designated by President Eisenhower as National Youth Fitness Week. The series was designed to introduce a...
ACTION… The Secret of Successful Aging
TO FEEL YOUR BEST and reap the most, exercise must be maintained as long as life is maintained. Bonnie Prudden’s first opportunity to work with older people came in 1956 when Harper and Row published her first book Is Your Child Really Fit?, and the ladies at the...
Taking Care of the Most Important Person
“Each life is a whole world. No one has ever read the books you have read exactly the way you have read them. No one has really heard the music as you heard it, nor even seen the sky as you see it. No one knows all that you know or even a small part. No one has loved...
The History, the White House, the Failure, the Cost to Health Care and Why You Have Reason to Be Outraged and Hopeful
History: The Short Version IN 1947, AT AGE 34, Bonnie Prudden went to visit her daughter’s 3rd grade gym class. After watching what she considered to be a disaster, she decided to use her own background in dance and athletics to give neighborhood children exercise...
Where Are My Muscle Weaknesses — and What Do I Do About Them?
The information about how to test for and fix the problem of low back pain, muscle spasm, or cramps has been available since the 1940s. What Is The Problem? MOST LOW BACK PAIN is the result of weak ABDOMINALS and / or tight HAMSTRINGS (the muscles in the back of your...
Why Does My Back Hurt?
What Are the Back Facts? CHRONIC BACK PAIN has been the scourge of the American people since the forties. It affects comfort, as well as the ability to focus and maintain any work effort. Back operations are the fastest growing surgery in this country. There are now...