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Title: The Knee Crisis Handbook: Understanding Pain, Preventing Trauma, Recovering from Knee Injury, and Building Healthy Knees for Life
ISBN: 1579548717
Author:
Brian Halpern
Publicate Date: 2003-10-17
Publish: 2003-10-17
List Price: $16.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
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1: Covers it ALL!!!
This has everything - surgery, sports, special knee exercises, how to determine your risk, tests the docs will do, and more. How to reduce your risk, risky sports & what to do if you still want to play. Also tells you when you shouldn't play. Special attention to women's higher risk of knee injury, why it occurs, and what to do... I am using the exercises to strengthen my knees. Exercises well organized & very detailed. General knee health routine, stretching routine, ACL injury routine, balance exercises, weight bearing exercises (& don't need any fancy equipment either - just a small ball or yoga block!) Have already recommended it to 2 other knee injured people.
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2: Hope for hopeless knees
This book is amazing! I've been suffering with knee problems for 30+ years and have seen many specialists, but never have I understood the knee, its mechanics and its problems the way I do now. I have purchased a copy of this book for everyone I know who suffers with bad knees- from sports, injuries, arthritis, etc. Written in enjoyable prose, Halpern explains the way the knee is constructed along with its inherent problems given that we force it to operate in ways it was never designed to move and that we don't pay enough attention to medial healing. The strength and flexibility-building exercises are superb, and include everything I've ever done in (expensive) physical therapy and more. Everyone! should have this book!
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3: Great Especially If You're Considering Surgery
I'm planning on ACL surgery in two weeks and I picked up several books yesterday. This is the most useful of the three. The Chapter on Preparing for Surgery is very good. It provides questions you might want to discuss with the doctor, what to expect and things to do ahead of time to prepare (lay in a stock of your favorite food, duct tape and hefty bags to waterproof . I would never have thought about half of these things, and they make a lot of sense! And there's a section on how to use crutches, which those of us who have been healthy until now have never had to think about. For me, these were worth the price of the book.
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4: Good informaion
I have knee injuries and arthritis as a result. I am always looking for ways to understand my limitations and work with what I've got. This book is very helpful.
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5: You "Kneed" This Book
Corny review title, I know. But if I only knew ten years ago (five years, one year) what I know now...what I know now because of this book.
Dr. Brian Halpern of the "Hospital for Special Surgery" in New York has written a thorough and highly readable primer on caring for the knee. There is a knee crisis in the United States...and I am sadly one of the recent casualties.
With sections entitled "The Knee," "Preventing Knee Injury," "Getting Better" and "Groups with Special Concerns," you have all the information you need to prevent, diagnose, know whether it's time to go to the emergency room, prepare for surgery, find a physical therapist and participate wholeheartedly. There is also a chapter about "Complementary Medicine," discussing acupuncture, vitamins, herbal supplements and massage.
I read it in a night, but will refer to it for years to come...whether I have surgery or not. I highly recommend it.
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