A comprehensive guide to help you realize a more active, pain-free life-style. This one book can help you prepare for surgery and help you return to your daily activities with better preparation and better post-surgery recovery with greater confidence. This book is for gardeners, golfers, tennis players, runners, walkers, cyclists, swimmers, active sports people and anyone who would like greater flexibility and mobility after surgery. Millenniums, seniors and everyone in between will benefit from the dozens of practical suggestions, from pre- to post-surgery.Through six easy-to-read modules with hundreds of photos, charts and illustrations, Larry Cipolla shows you how to prepare for and recover from your surgery with safe and proven protocols targeted to specific body parts--neck-shoulders, elbows-wrists and hands, upper and lower back, hips-knees and feet-ankles--so you can get your lifestyle back in gear, safely and effectively. What will you learn? This all-inclusive guide can help you realize a better quality of life by ....Helping you cope the pain and lack of full mobility associated with arthritisHow non-surgical options can lessen pre-surgery concerns and anxietyHow to organize your indoor and outdoor living spaces to maximize accessibilityHow to navigate with assistive aids safely--crutches, walkers, knee-walkers and wheel-chairs--after surgeryHow to perform sports and other activities with better flexibility and conditioningHow to start a low-impact exercise program regardless of age, weight or physical conditionHow to ask better questions to get better answers from your medical care-teamHow a non-food, no-fad diet can help you lose weight and stop smoking without medicationsHow some botanicals and natural-products can cause allergies, rashes and other ailmentsHow to use easy and low-impact exercises to build your strength and endurance