Health Matters - Health Expert Biography

Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM Director of Neck and Back Pain Sports Medicine and Instructor at Temple University Medical Specialty: Sports Medicine and Physiology Healthline Blog: The Fitness Fixer

Dr. Jolie Bookspan is a sports medicine scientist known around the world for her innovative research to make medicine, fitness, and injury rehabilitation healthier. As a researcher for university and military aerospace, warfare, and medicine divisions, she studied human performance and survival in extremes of exercise and environment: heat, cold, altitude, immersion, hyperbarics, high G-forces, weightlessness, nutrition, and injury. Far from the ivory tower, she has carried gear up and down the mountains and deserts of India, Nepal, Asia, and Northern Africa; swam to work in an underwater laboratory; breath-hold dived with the Ama diving women of Japan; and was professor of anatomy at a college in the mountains of Mexico where the entrance exam was getting up there without a nose-bleed.

Jolie developed an innovative method of abdominal and core training called The Ab Revolution™. It trains core muscles with no crunches or forward bending and gives a harder, more effective workout, while retraining muscles the way they are needed for real daily movement and pain control. Her several training and injury healing methods, used by SEAL teams, military, and top spine centers around the world, are so successful that clinicians at Harvard University Medical School named her "The St. Jude of the Joints."

Dr. Bookspan has a double doctorate in environmental physiology and sports medicine from Temple University Medical School and the Biokinetics Research Laboratory. She did postdoctoral work in altitude decompression at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, with fellowships and internships in orthopedic disorders and thermal physiology, and has over three dozen certifications in exercise in injury management, nutrition, various fitness specialties, wound management, and more.

Jolie learned to scuba dive in the Hudson River in the 1960's and went on to become a scuba instructor and national-class distance freestyle swimmer with two Olympic bids and several open water swims in icy, winter rivers. She was an undefeated full-contact ring boxer and Muay Thai fighter, competing in the Netherlands and Thailand, and studying with the monks of Japan, Nepal, and Thailand. Jolie and her husband, Paul, earned their black belts in the 1980's and were inducted into the Eastern USA International Black Belt Hall of Fame, with several awards including 2004 Martial Arts Man and Woman of the Year. See Jolie's web site for her wide range of workshops and classes in kickboxing, yoga, Thai massage, healthy exercise, and fixing back pain, neck pain, and other pain and injuries: www.DrBookspan.com.

She has written many medical textbook chapters, as well as nine books on diving medicine and fun ways to avoid joint pain and to exercise in healthier ways.

Jolie says her most important awards and achievements are the notes she gets from patients and readers who use her methods to stop years of pain that they were told they "just had to live with." Jolie invites you to use all she has worked for to make your health and life better than you ever thought possible.

Professional Website:
http://www.DrBookspan.com

Publications:
Diving Physiology In Plain English
Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine Review For Physicians
Fix Your Own Pain — Without Drugs or Surgery
Health & Fitness in Plain English 2nd Edition
Healthy Martial Arts
Hyperbaric Medical Review For Board Certification Exams, CHT/CHRN
Stretching Smarter Stretching Healthier
The Ab Revolution™ Third edition - No More Crunches No More Back Pain