The Healthy Hairstylist: A Chiropractor's Guide to Preventing Injury & Resolving Pain - Paperback

by Jonas Eyford (Author)

The Healthy Hairstylist is a book written to help all salon professionals optimize their physical health, avoid injury and manage specific conditions. It is a dependable guide to recognizing, preventing and treating salon-specific health issues like carpal tunnel, shoulder pain and back pain. Beginning with practical understandings of the body, this book explains essential ergonomic and postural practices for hairstylists.Injuries and conditions commonly experienced by stylists are explained and complete self-treatment and prevention plans are laid out.Each rehabilitative treatment and exercise is demonstrated with images and descriptions. The plans laid out for issues like carpal tunnel include suggested treatment, self-treatment and career-saving preventative measures to take. The Healthy Hairstylist can be used by hairstylists, cosmologists, barbers, colorists or estheticians who want to take control of their health and play an active role in injury management and prevention.

Author Biography

Dr. Jonas Eyford is a chiropractor and consultant based in Toronto, Canada. Fascinated by health and the human condition, he first studied philosophy at the University of Calgary and later became a doctor of chiropractic through the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College. A keen problem solver, the desire to educate hairstylists developed out of his experience treating them.