Rick Olderman

"Top 3 Fix" by Robert Schrupp, PT, and Rick Olderman, MSPT, distills over 55 years of clinical experience into essential exercises and habit changes for addressing pain throughout the body. Covering issues from plantar fasciitis to neck pain and headaches, the book offers solutions for a wide range of pains, including back, sciatic, SI joint, and upper body discomforts.

Fixing You: Foot & Ankle Pain helps with issues creating chronic foot and ankle pain. Factors involved in these problems are foot strike patterns, the shape of the thigh bones, foot muscle function, calf tightness, and the shape of the foot. Fixing You: Foot & Ankle Pain offers strategies to correct these problems including taping and techniques to release chronically tight musculature. Additionally this book offers tips to select foot orthoses and offers some thoughts on minimalist running.

Hip and knee pain are often a result of poor pelvic muscle performance in combination with poor walking habits. This combination creates tracking problems in the hip socket or excessive rotation at the knee joint. Fixing You: Hip & Knee Pain teaches you what these issues are and how to simply fix them. This easy-to-read book contains ample illustrations and client stories to help you fully understand the problems causing your pain. Video clips of all exercises are found on www.FixingYou.net to help ensure rapid correction. Simply enter the code found in the book.

Fixing You: Back Pain 2nd edition significantly expands upon the top-selling first edition. Rick Olderman physical therapist, personal trainer, Pilates instructor, and certified Hanna Somatics practitioner presents a new pattern of problems creating back pain: side-bending problems. Side-bending problems involve an uneven pelvis and rib cage and Olderman shows how to easily detect and fix it. If you have pain on one side of your back or sciatic pain down one of your legs, it’s likely you have a side-bending problem. Understanding why you have pain is central to fixing your pain. Fixing You: Back Pain 2nd edition offers you more tests to help you precisely understand the causes of your pain. To permanently fix your pain must change how you use your body. Fixing You: Back Pain 2nd edition teaches you how to sit, walk, bend over, and sleep better. These activities often harbor the most subtle yet egregious issues feeding your pain. Often there are issues operating in the background contributing to your pain. These problems set you up for failure and pain. Find out what these issues are by visiting the Fixing You books website and downloading a free copy of Chapter 3: The Basics. Videos and pictures of all tests and exercises have been re-shot and can be found on the Fixing You books website. You must enter the code found in the book to access the videos. Enjoy the process of discovering why you have pain!

The shoulders are a floating system on the trunk, held in place and moved by muscular control. The foundation of shoulder movement is the shoulder blade which has precise resting and moving landmarks. Fixing You: Shoulder & Elbow Pain teaches you what these landmarks are and how to correct them to fix your shoulder pain. Likewise elbow pain such as tennis elbow also is influenced by the shoulder blade and upper arm bone. This book teaches you, using simple language and plenty of illustrations, how to fix the issues causing pain in both areas. Video clips of all exercises can be found at www.FixingYou.net by entering the code found in the book. This ensures faster results.