Books – Health – Injuries & prevention
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Golf After 50 by Terry W. Hensle
Men and women over 50 have an excellent opportunity to devote their post-50 years to improving their golf games. This manual explains simple precautions to take to avoid preventable injuries, gives commonsense nutrition and wellness tips and provides expert medical advice. Whether it is advice on playing with chronic shoulder pain or after a hip replacement, or the best ways to protect your skin from the sun, Golf After 50 delivers the sage advice that over-50 golfers need. Written in question and answer format, drawing on the technical know-how from orthopaedists, cardiologists, endocrinologists, nutritionists, and sports medicine doctors – all I self-confessed golf nuts.
Paperback, 224 pp, $32.95. Buy
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Complete Guide to Sports Injuries by H.Winter Griffith
Illustrates and describes common sports injuries, including what to expect from an injury, how to treat it, and when to call the doctor.
Paperback, 544 pp, $34.95. Buy
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Bicycling Medicine by Arnie Baker
More people are taking to the roads or exploring the wilderness on bicycles. This text provides advice on preventing and treating all kinds of bicycling-related aches and pains. It explains how to diagnose problems, offers solutions and alerts readers to conditions that require medical attention.
Paperback, 331 pp, $23.95. Buy
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Protecting the Gift by Gavin De Becker
An authority on human violence shares advice on how parents can protect their children from being victimized, explains how to minimize danger, and discusses such topics as school safety, teenage dating, and firearms
Paperback, 336 pp, $20.95. Buy
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Heal Your Hips by Robert Klapper
The practical guidance in ‘Heal Your Hips’ should be a revelation for the millions of North Americans enduring the pain of hip deterioration and injury.
Paperback, 206 pp, $25.95. Buy
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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Running Injury-Free by Damon Martin and Bob Schaller
No painamaximum gain. More than half of all runners in the U.S. are sidelined at least once a year because of an injury. Many others run through the pain that starts to surface as they ageathe result of years of bad posture, joint and muscle stiffness and poor running mechanics. This guide provides readers with a holistic approach to preventing injuries and getting rid of nagging pains. In it, readers learn how to increase flexibility, calibrate muscle strength, pick the right shoes, break bad habits, and moreaall while improving distance and efficiency
Paperback, 270 pp, $24.95. Buy
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Save Your Knees by James M. Fox
A practical, authoritative, no-nonsense guide that covers the gamut of knee pain and injuries, and shows what causes them, what can be done to alleviate them, and how to prevent them in the future
Paperback, 287 pp, $20.95. Buy
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Sports Massage by Mel Cash
Almost every top sportsman or woman has been for curative treatment at one time or another. This book sets out the different general massage techniques, goes through the specific injury treatments for each part of the body, explains how to identify injury problems and how to treat acute injuries
Paperback, 168 pp, $44.95. Buy
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