Move Freely: Get Your Life Back After Injury

By: Helen Blake MD

Narrated by: Danielle Whitehead

Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins

Publisher's Summary

Is your pain preventing you from moving freely?

When an injury strikes, it is easy to feel helpless, uncertain, and fearful about the future. Pain after an injury can limit you. Your dreams can’t become reality when your pain prevents you from doing much more than moving from the bed to the couch.

Whether you were injured at work, struck in a motor vehicle accident, or threw your back out while at home, once pain strikes, you need to get back to feeling your best - and back to work - as quickly as possible.

Helen Blake, MD is an experienced interventional pain doctor who can help you rise above your pain - wherever it is - after your injury or accident. She will be your guide through a targeted process to help you to renew your energy and conquer your injury. You will also learn how to:

• Rise above pain that continues for months or years, even after medical treatment or surgery
• Eat nutritional foods that will decrease the inflammation in your body
• Nourish your well-being
• Exercise again - without injuring yourself!
• Work toward your professional goals and aspirations

Whether your pain started six weeks ago or six years ago, Move Freely can help you reclaim your body and energy, so you can pursue the things you love.

©2018 Helen M. Blake (P)2019 Helen M. Blake

Solid advice, but start later in the book

The stories at the beginning of the book might have been meant to inspire and provide a foundation for the author's claims, but they went on for almost 40 minutes before getting to what I would consider solid recommendations for the reader. I would have written the book to use the stories to inspire then put the recommendations in between these recommendations to better balance narrative with flow.

Everyone should have this book!

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I was in a really bad car accident recently. The air bag fractured several ribs and my sternum. For anyone who doesn’t know anatomy, surgeons break the sternum for access for heart surgeries. So holding a pillow whenever a deep breath is needed (coughing, getting up, hiccups, crying, sneezing ... you get the picture) was necessary.
I’m too aware of the opioid epidemic and frankly, don’t like the effects of them - headaches, sleepiness. I begged doctors for alternatives.
This book was the best alternative and worked better and faster than physical therapy.
I was able to get back to my life quickly, which means the settlement with the insurance companies will be faster. I wasn’t after the money. My ultimate goal was to get back to my life and enjoying it. This expedited the process.
It does have a slow start, simply fast forward the explanations and research studies if you want.
Narrator was very good.
Highly highly highly recommended.

Great basic guide to chronic pain management

My credentials as a reviewer - over twenty procedures and a lot of dealing with doctors who aren't trained in or familiar with pain management other than shoving pills at their patient. I wish I'd had this guide to know what to look for and the standard of care to DEMAND when I started my journey back to mobility and health many years ago.

Some of the information is general to reach as broad a readership as possible, so those of us more restricted by the damage we've sustained might mutter "wish I could" when she gets to the exercises rehabilitation alumni can probably recite by heart. Keep listening! That stuff is for the newbies. She gets to the possibilities for people right up to and including wheelchairs.

The sections on supplements and implants is cutting edge as of the date of this review and it's truly amazing how changing your diet and mental state can impact pain levels. She's got a lot of great data in here that it took me years and multiple doctors to scrape together. Some of you might roll your eyes over some of this information if you are new to treatment (I confess I did when my own fabulous doctor first asked me to try some of it) and it's not a quick fix, but it works. Get this and give it a chance. What have you got to lose except your agony?

I'd never heard of this doctor before I was given the chance to review her book, but I hope she's teaching somewhere because this is the kind of chronic pain practitioner we need more of. Kudos to her for getting the information out there. I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Gives hope for people living with chronic pain.

I was given this audiobook for free for an honest review: The author provides numerous ways to deal with keeping your pain levels manageable and living your best life while dealing with chronic pain. My only complaint is the book left me wanting more as it was that good.