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Title: Anybody's Sports Medicine Book: The Complete Guide to Quick Recovery from Injuries by James Garrick, Peter Radetsky ISBN: 1-58008-144-4 Publisher: Ten Speed Press Pub. Date: 15 June, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: Not the best choice
Comment: I bought this book after incurring a sports injury. Although it has some useful information, I found Micheli's Sports Medicine Bible to be far superior - more depth and better information.

Rating: 5
Summary: How to Play with Your Injuries
Comment: This book gives excellent information and advice on how to live with your injuries and continue to enjoy your favorite sports. It gives blunt information on the benefits of surgery for different conditions--pro and con. Garrick's credentials show his ability to get injured athletes (professionals as well as weekend warriors) back onto the playing field as quickly as possible. He also gives advice on sport-specific prevention of injuries--strengthening excerises and playing techniques. Besides a copy for myself (an aging tennis player), I am buying one for my son who does extreme snowboarding and biking and spends much time in emergency rooms!

Rating: 3
Summary: An overview, but not a complete guide
Comment: I used this book as a guide to recovering from patellofemoral pain syndrome, a very common, but very difficult and debilitating problem.

What I found is that the book's recommendation to strengthen the vastus medialus and stretch the quadriceps group is fine as far as it goes. But for many sufferers it will not go far enough. Many doctors feel that any or all of the muscles in the leg, from the hips to the ankles, may need strengthening/and or stretching to overcome this syndrome.

If you do work on your vastus medialus (which practically every doctor recommends, it's just that other muscles may be involved), follow the author's suggestion to use an electic muscle stimulator. It builds the muscle much faster than any other form of isometric exercse. Muscle stimulators are now sold on the net.

If this doesn't cure your knee problems, don't despair. Find a more comprehensive (but not necessarily more stressful) exercise program.

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