Tom Bisio

A renowned expert in Chinese sports medicine and martial arts reveals ancient Eastern secrets for healing common injuries, including sprains, bruises, deep cuts, and much more.For centuries, Chinese martial arts masters have kept their highly prized remedies as carefully guarded secrets, calling such precious and powerful knowledge "a tooth from the tigers mouth." Now, for the first time, these deeply effective methods are revealed to Westerners who want alternative ways to treat the acute and chronic injuries experienced by any active person.While many books outline the popular teachings of traditional Chinese medicine, only this one offers step-by-step instructions for treating injuries. Expert practitioner and martial artist Tom Bisio explains the complete range of healing strategies and provides a Chinese first-aid kit to help the reader fully recover from every mishap: cuts, sprains, breaks, dislocations, bruises, muscle tears, tendonitis, and much more.He teaches readers how to:Examine and diagnose injuries Prepare and apply herbal formulas Assemble a portable kit for emergencies Fully recuperate with strengthening exercises and healing dietary adviceComprehensive and easy to follow, with drawings to illustrate both the treatment strategies and the strengthening exercises, this unique guidebook will give readers complete access to the powerful healing secrets of the great Chinese warriors.

Durante siglos los maestros chinos en artes marciales han mantenido sus tan preciados remedios en el más estricto secreto. En este libro, se presentan, en lenguaje claro y con dibujos que ilustran las estrategias de tratamiento y los ejercicios de fuerza, los metodos mas efectivos para tratar lesiones graves y cronicas sufridas por una persona activa.El autor, medico y experto en artes marciales, explica el completo abanico de estas estrategias curativas y ofrece un botiquin de primeros auxilios chino para ayudar al lector a recuperarse completamente de cualquier accidente: cortes, esguinces, fracturas, dislocaciones, contusiones, desgarros musculares, tendinitis, entre otros.Tom Bisio es un especialista en artes marciales de renombre y un medico especializado en medicina china. Dirige una clinica en la ciudad de Nueva York donde su enfoque oriental y occidental en cuanto a los metodos de curacion le ayudo a crear e implementar efectivos programas de rehabilitacion.

Drawing on ideas from classical military strategy, the Yijing (Book of Changes), and Chinese martial arts theory, Tom Bisio presents a fascinating exploration of how insights from these sources can be deployed to manage crisis situations in all aspects of our daily lives. Suggesting approaches for cultivating a strategic mindset that can be applied to ones relationships, work, and personal self-fulfillment, Beyond the Battleground offers methods of adapting to circumstances, conserving ones own resources, and avoiding or dissolving conflict that will aid any reader navigating the uncertainties of the changing world, including the business person, military theorist, or martial artist. Deftly interweaving his background in East Asian philosophy and history and his career in traditional Chinese medicine with his lifelong interest in the martial arts and military science, Bisio also presents examples of successful strategies from historys great commanders such as Sunzi, Alexander the Great, Napoleon, and Mao Zedong.