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Title: The American Physical Therapy Association Book of Body Maintenance and Repair by Steve Vickery, Marilyn Moffat ISBN: 0-8050-5571-1 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.91 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: When all else Fails...
Comment: ...read a book. Especially this book. Anyone who has suffered an injury, the insult of surgery, the subsequent humiliation of physical therapy, should read this book. Despite the naive illustrations, the authors provide a treasure trove of information on how to perform rehabilitation exercises and stretches.
I feel lucky to have discovered this book. A little over a year ago I had knee surgery. Unfortunately, as the right knee continued to improve, I developed pain in the left hip. My physical therapist told me to gut it out and take aspirin.
A year and two months after my surgery (and seven months out of phys therapy) I could not lift my left leg above four inches without debilitating pain. While in the library, I discovered this book and decided to give the stretches a try.
Well, now I have full range-of-motion and just marginal discomfort. I have been performing the stretches and exercises faithfully for six weeks. It works.
I recommend this book for anyone who has an interest in how the body works, whether you're a weekend warrior or a sedentary type.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great addition to anyones book collection
Comment: This is an excellent supplemental book. It provides a wide range of information in a limited amount of text. The chapters are informative and detailed, yet interesting. This would be a great book to have for a reference or quick study. I also found the many drawings of different exercises most helpful.
Rating: 2
Summary: There are better books available
Comment: My disappointment in this book has to do with its organization. I was looking for information on a shoulder injury and what to do for it. When looking through the chapter on the shoulder it did help that all the things that could go wrong with your shoulder were in bold print so you could skim to find the correct one, but then I wanted to know what to do to help my injury. Now I had to search the book again. If not right there, you'd think it'd be in the next section...but no, the next section was on "taking care of your shoulder" before anything goes wrong. But if you keep turning pages you do finally find a section titled "When Problems Occur"...however, now you search again for your specific problem only to find pretty general information for all shoulder injuries. I prefer the organization in The Sports Medicine Bible for a good overall reference book...and I like Allan Levy's Tennis Injury Handbook for more specific questions. Allan Levy also had a more general reference book called the Sports Injury Handbook, but, once again, the organization of the Sports Medicine Bible presents the information best (Symptoms, Causes, What you can do, What the doctor can do, etc.)
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