Treat Your Own Knees - Couverture souple

Johnson, Jim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0897934229 ISBN 13 : 9780897934220

Editeur : Hunter House Inc.,U.S., 2004

Synopsis

Treat Your Own Knees shows how to reduce or end knee pain by improving knee function. In easy-to-grasp language, author Jim Johnson covers the physiology of the knee and the kinds of pain that affect it, along with the psychological aspects. He offers a series of straightforward exercises based on current medical data and tested in his practice. Black-and-white drawings show exactly how to do the exercises and pinpoint the precise muscles responsible for the problem. This concise, simple guide provides an effective do-it-yourself program.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Jim Johnson, P.T., is a physical therapist who has spent over fifteen years treating both inpatients and outpatients with a wide range of pain and mobility problems. He has written many books based
completely on published research and controlled trials including The Multifidus Back Pain Solution, The No-Beach, No-Zone, No-Nonsense Weight Loss Plan: A Pocket Guide to What Works, The Sixty-Second Motivator, Treat Your Own Rotator
Cuff, and The 5-Minute Plantar Fasciitis Solution.
Cuff. His books have been translated into other languages and thousands of copies have been sold worldwide. Besides working full-time as a clinician in a large teaching hospital and writing books, Jim Johnson is a certified Clinical Instructor by the American Physical Therapy
Association and enjoys teaching physical therapy students from all over the United States.

Présentation de l'éditeur

TREAT YOUR OWN KNEES is a handy easy-to-use book written by a physical therapist who reviewed hundreds of scientific journal articles and studied their practical applications to find the most simple and effective do-it-yourself treatments for knee pain. Using drawings and illustrations that clearly depict the correct way to perform the exercises and the exact muscles responsible for knee pain. The reader will also gain knowledge of how to improve and maintain knee function by enhancing the four crucial abilities every knee must have: · Muscular · Flexibility · Responsiveness · Endurance A chapter is devoted to each of these four abilities showing what it's role is in maintaining movement and knee health and why it is essential. The last chapter is a 'master plan' that pulls together all the concepts and exercises into a time-efficient exercise programme.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hunter House Inc.,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0897934229
• ISBN 13: 9780897934220
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible