A Useful Self-Help Resource for Improving Health

 Review by Ronica Wahi

Free from Pain – Exercise Book: Exercises to Improve Health, Increase Ability and Provide Vitality in Your Senior Years

By Dr. George Ampat

First published: July 17, 2021, Talita Koum.

Pages: 96.

ISBN: 9780995676947

Dr. George Ampat, a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at present, has happily created this useful self-help health resource for people aged 50 and above who suffer from musculoskeletal pains. Despite years of experience of performing surgery, Dr. Ampat explains in Free from Pain – Exercise Book the importance of avoiding surgery, whenever possible.

As a good self-help tool should be, the book is easy to grasp. Both the explanations bit and the instructions on performing the recommended exercises for alleviating pains in bones and joints primarily are clearly and crisply given, making these explanations and instructions quicker to assimilate. The illustrations explaining the necessity of exercise and enlivening the metaphors that go with the explanations, plus the illustrations depicting the way the various exercises are to be performed greatly enhance the lucidity, readability, and reader-orientedness of the content.

Free from Pain – Exercise Book answers many important questions that people embarking on a journey of improving or regaining their mobility and balance would have in their minds. For instance, the book explains what to consider before starting an exercise regime, where to exercise, how much to exercise, what to wear while exercising, when to eat before exercising, and other such stuff.

The 12-week “free from pain” functional rehabilitation programme that this book recommends is a fusion of three established exercise programmes. Dr. Ampat provides 12 reasons and 12 metaphors that go with them to show why exercise is important. For mobility, longevity, pain reduction, disease prevention, mental well-being, stress reduction, etc. exercise is needed and through metaphors that are stories with lessons, the ideas are effectively conveyed. To take an example, the “Moral of the Story” for Metaphor 1 is “Be fit and only then lift.” (p.7)

With suitable motivation provided through reasons and metaphors, the book progresses on to explain the exercises to be taken up. This book also has some additional useful content such as the SARC-F questionnaire - a screening test for sarcopaenia, a test for determining signs of dementia, and an Exercise Diary for 12 weeks.

People over the age of 50, those nearing 50, or even younger people can take inspiration from this book to adopt a healthier lifestyle and focus on keeping the body active so that the functioning of the body is not negatively impacted. But reading and understanding this book will be insufficient and of no real use if what is suggested isn’t implemented; as is pointed out in the book, taking ownership and including exercise in one’s routine is essential. If the reader does take this ownership, then the book will certainly bring a wonderful change in that reader’s life and fulfil its objective of being a useful self-help tool.

Do read and do exercise! And do ask your parents and other elders to do so too!

 

To learn more about the Free from Pain programme, gain clarity on some points related to exercise and diet, and learn about lifestyle changes that can enhance both health and happiness, watch Dr. George Ampat’s interview here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDlJKHkYxhw

 

Amazon India link for Free from Pain – Exercise Book (Paperback): https://amzn.to/2YZ77kE

Amazon India link for Free from Pain – Exercise Book (Kindle): https://amzn.to/3DLFFWp

 


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