Health Yoga As Medicine A Yoga Journal Book By Timothy McCall, M.D. Yoga as Medicine by Timothy McCall, MD is an authorative and accessible book that shows, with reference to study after study, how valuable yoga can be in treating a wide range of afflictions. This book offers prescriptions and detailed case studies for numerous ailments (listed below in the Contents section) which are fascinating and informative whether or not you suffer from the particular problem(s) being addressed. It is detailed, comprehensive and informed by the real life experiences of top notch yoga therapists with deep knowledge of their craft.      Part One of the book introduces the topic of yoga as medicine and quantifies the benefits in a way that the most skeptical Western reader will be convinced of the health benefits that can be achieved throught regular yoga practice. There are also Experiential Exercises in Part One designed to show the reader with little yoga experience direct and immediate results.      Part Two is full of practical guidance on figuring out what yoga is right for you, how to do it safely and for planning and maintaining your own practice.      Part Three contains detailed information on twenty particular health problems including back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, headaches and insomnia. Here explainations of how yoga can be used to treat and prevent these problems are given. A personal history of successful treatment is related and clear instruction for developing a healing practice is completely laid out.      There are useful appendices about a variety of topics including sources of further information and a helpful Sanskrit glossary. The full Table of Contents is listed after the "buy" button.      This book has found wide acceptance and acclaim in the yoga community. And, as with Yoga itself, it must be experienced to fully understand why.       Timothy McCall, M.D., trained in primary care internal medicine and practiced for more than a dozen years in the Boston area and then in the year 2000 began devoting himself full-time to the investigation of therapeutic yoga. As a board-certified physician and a dedicated yoga practitioner who has traveled to India and throughout the United States observing, studying with, and interviewing the world's leading yoga teachers and therapists, he is uniquely qualified to reconcile modern medical science and ancient yogic teachings. He is the medical editor of Yoga Journal, the country's leading yoga publication, and now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.      High Praise for Yoga As Medicine:       "If you care about your body and want to learn to listen more carefully to its messages, and to take good care of it over the long haul, you wi