Stable and Pain-Free from 50: Exercises for Joint Replacement, Arthritis, Back Pain Balance Problems Neurocentric Training 50

An artificial knee. Arthritis. A back that has been making itself heard for years. A sense of balance you no longer quite trust.Most training books for the over-fifties assume your body will cooperate. They show exercises for people with no history - no implant, no slipped disc from 2011, no shoulder that never came right after the fall on the ice. This book is for everyone else.Why the nervous system, and not more repetitionsWhen a joint is replaced, the mechanics are restored. The sensors in the capsule and ligaments are not. Your brain loses information about where that joint is and what it is doing. When pain has lasted a long time, the processing itself changes: the same stimulus arrives louder. Neither of those can be undone.What can be improved is the control - how well your brain knows where your body is, how much room a joint is allowed to use, how steady you feel when you stand, walk and get up. That is what neurocentric training works on, and it is why the exercises here are small, precise and undramatic rather than heavy.What is inside- 52 exercises, each with a dosage and a clear stop signal- Guides for 12 situations: knee and hip replacement, shoulder replacement, arthritis, osteoporosis, disc problems, chronic pain, fibromyalgia, polyneuropathy, walking frame and fear of falling, dizziness- Three training plans, depending on where you are starting from- Tests you can repeat, so you can see whether anything is actually changing- Almost every exercise possible seated or holding on to somethingWhat this book does not promiseNot a cure. An implant stays an implant, arthritis does not disappear, osteoporosis does not reverse. Every chapter states plainly what training can change and what it cannot. Parkinson's, stroke and MS lie outside the scope of this book, and it says so.What you get instead is this: you will know what you can work on, how much of it - and when to stop.René Becker is a neuro-athletics trainer and Medical Athlete Coach, over thirty years in fitness and a personal trainer since 2007.