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Aiming its ideas and methods towards better appreciation and greater use of holistic wellness, or integrated comprehensive human health, Optimal Wellness: Necessary Biological, Psychological, and Social Integrations is purposed towards readers' self-help and self-supervision, with practical knowledge and applicable tools that all people can work with to promote wellness, and to repair, develop, and maintain their multifaceted well-being. In this book you'll find enduring lessons, accessible explanations, and reliable instructions from 14 degreed and certified doctors, massage and physical therapists, and fitness trainers whose evolved and ever-evolving strategies for wellness have enlightened them as holistic thinkers beyond the pale of reductive specialization. Each of the writers' chapters emphasizes biopsychosocial perspectives-the comprehensive integrations of physical, mental, and social influences-that view the larger medical, anatomical, spiritual, and practical pictures from which complete health is drawn. Biopsychosocial holism seeks to complement specialization by recognizing-and then converging-added pieces to the puzzle of wellness or added colors to the full spectrum of health. Resulting in innovations created synergistically, our writers' holism takes on new dimensionality, a deeper and broader understanding of what makes humans tick best. As with all ethically concerned healers, this book's authors recommend that readers seek specialist help whenever a situation warrants special attention beyond what they, the readers, can do on their own. This self-help book offers verified preventive, curative, and maintenance guidelines that will save readers time, money, and needless physical and psychological aggravations and that will provide the proper building blocks to structure their future wellness and health program, whatever a reader's current state of wellness may be. This book's accessible outlook, with best-practice lessons from the West and the East, and informed by wellness holists writing about their holistic practices, is further unified by the ""Recurring Subject Index"" at its end.

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Dr. Vladimir Friedman conceived the necessity and guiding purpose of this book. ADoctor of Chiropractic Medicine with full-year post-graduate studies as a Certified ChiropracticSports Physician, Certified Clinical Nutritionist, and certified practitioner of ElectrodiagnosticStudies, Vlad has been a personal trainer and now is owner-therapist of Accelerated Care Chiropracticand Accelicare Sports Chiropractic in Midtown Manhattan. Driven by a professional need to offerholistic therapy, Vlad has earned over 30 two-day post-grad certifications and over 50 lifetimecertifications including EMT, first aid and safety, and lifeguarding. Dr. Bob Davis, content supervisor, writing coach, and editor of this book, is a Ph. D. inNineteenth-Century British Literature who taught university English for almost 40 years, principallyat Clark University in MA and at NYU, where for 12 years he created, directed, and instructed a fourcourseprogram of expository prose for graduate students in the 22 majors of the Professional StudiesProgram. His published work includes Your Writing Well: Common-Sense Strategies and Logic-Based Skills, in 15 Essays for the 21st Century, instructor manuals for five college-level reading andwriting anthologies, along with two volumes of literary criticism, style-diverse nonacademic prose, and poetry. As a freelance editor and language consultant for corporate and individual clients, Bobhas been copy-chief for AOL Digital City New York, has development- and copy-edited over twentyvolumes of literature for Houghton Mifflin's New Riverside Editions, edited online for The CollegeBoard and Pearson, and also edited for magazines, advertising agencies, architectural builders, andphilanthropic foundations. Luke Bongiorno, graduate of the University of Melbourne, Australia, is Director of the North American Neuro-Orthopaedic Institute (Noigroup) in New York City and, previously, was co-founder of New York Sports Medicine. Recognized as one of the most prominent physical therapists in NYC, Luke not only is affiliated with the clinical education programs of Columbia University and Touro College and serves as a consultant with the NBA League, but also is internationally recognized for his treatment of professional and Olympic athletes and performing arts and dance company members, and for his consulting with professional European soccer teams.

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