Injuries Books

Great guide for the tennis enthusiast...gives simple but effective exercises to strengthen key muscles used in tennis. Exercises improved my game and helped to decrease muscle soreness in my shoulder and elbow.

This is a great book, not only for its in depth coverage and clinical pearls about running medicine, but even more so for its broader applicability to the entire spectrum of musculoskeletal and sports medicine....a great addition to any physician's book shelf.

As an athletic trainer I feel it is essential to have a sound knowledge base of therapeutic modalities in order to properly and efficiently treat athletes. Therapeutic Modalities in Sports Medicine offers modality techniques ranging from therapuetic massage to use of spinal traction and lasers. It offers physiologic responses as well as technical explanations of uses of each of the modalities. I feel that "mini-glossaries" of terms and vocabulary used in each chapter provide easy use and reading, especially with the technical explanations of the physics aspect of modalities(you don't need a dictionary next to you!). This book is a must for certified and student athletic trainers alike! It is also a great resource for any academic cirriculum containing therapeutic modialities.

This book was about the various ailments of the thumb and many of the surgeries to correct problems; it was made up of a dozen or so papers contributed by various professionals in the field of the thumb. It was very informative, had many helpful photos and was of general high quality all around. With a copyright of 1994 it is slightly dated but, as far as I could tell, is still very applicable today. The pages were made of robust paper and the book had what seemed to be an encyclopedia/library binding.

There was a very nice introductory paper discussing the history of the various surgeries of the thumb, as well as the next paper which discussed the mobility and movement of the thumb. Subsequent papers went into various topics, all primarily based in diagnosing and fixing (usually through surgery) the different problems that various people have with their thumbs.

I am not a surgeon (although the editor says that he wrote it for surgeons) and I don't have a medical background, but I found the book remarkably easy to read (just have a dictionary on hand!). I had ordered the book because I had a certain problem with my thumb that I have lived with my whole life, and wanted to know what it was before wasting time with the excellent but expensive medical system we have here in the US. Sure enough, after pouring through the 200 page book in a few hours, I found my problem. I also found that I'd bought a great book that was worth the money even if I didn't have a specific reason for buying it.

This book is another winner from author Bev Bryant...a journey of inspiration filled with hope. Her words become a vehicle of love and caring, building and rebuilding on the power of family and friends in crisis. A great FIVE star book that I highly reccommend to everyone! Don't miss this one.

I have found this book to be very useful and will continue to use it as a good reference book in the future. It is very detailed however and not the most user-friendly for the novice Legal Assistant. Written by an Attorney, it is very technical. In addition, I find the Appendix is a little vague at times.

I have been in the personal training industry for a long time, and I can assure you that what you think that you know about body training is most likely wrong until you read, and apply the rules and training method that this book gives to you. Pro athletes should be practicing the methods this man teaches. If you are looking to be in the best shape of your life, buy this book, and after you read it...buy the workout plan by Blake Peterson. You will become a superman with more core strength than ever imagined.

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This is a great book with current information that is of tremendous value to the medical student, residents and nurse practitioners.

Firemen and rescue workers face violent death on an almost daily basis. In about 130 large pictures (usually a photo per page) TRAUMA CODE
presents the carnage these brave men encounter. With the exception of three 19th century newspaper illustrations of train crashes, all the pictures in the book are contemporary (1950ies to early 1990ies) photos of car accidents, train wrecks, air disasters, drowning victims and fires, with a couple of crime scene pictures thrown in for good measure. Aside from short introductions to each chapter and brief captions there is no text. The photos speak for themselves.
As should be self-evident given the nature of the subject TRAUMA CODE is not exactly for children and those of a nervous disposition. While the book is clearly intended as a warning akin those old classroom scare films, I think most readers will buy it out of a morbid curiosity. Well, in my book there is nothing wrong with that, as this is human nature. Everybody stops and looks when one witnesses an accident. (One photo in the book has a crowd of on-lookers at the site of an accident with one woman even taking pictures.) I guess it is the half-conscious comforting re-assurance along the lines of "I'm alive and you are dead".
I found the pictures of those unfortunate individuals who either burned to death or who drowned particularly shocking. It must be a horrible and painful death to die in a fire. Several photos show charred remains. The victims are beyond recognition and usually shrunk due to the extreme heat. On the other hand those who drowned get bloated, which gives the corpse a rather ghastly appearance.
There is no shortage of gore in TRAUMA CODE. A rather gross series of photos has a black man who was decapitated in an elevator shaft. A suicide victim who blew his head off with a gun shot. There is even a particular disgusting picture of what I can only describe as a heap of human flesh, the remains of a driver, who met his death when a speeding train hit his vehicle.
A very interesting chapter is on air catastrophes. A series of pictures details the horrible events on 13th January 1982, when shortly after take-off Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into the brigde connecting Washington DC to Virigina, flatting several vehicles in the process before falling into the icy waters of the Potomac river. A park service helicopter (although not equipped for air rescue operations) managed to rescue five survivors. This is gripping stuff about true heroism!
What is also amazing is the sheer stupidity of some of the victims. A gross photo has a black man with his skull gorily shattered; the caption informs us "Trespassers, alcohol and trains can be a deadly combination. This intoxicated man tempted fate by sitting on the tracks"! Other victims however have incredible bad luck, like the unfortunate woman who picked her car up from the service station and shortly afterwards found out to her horror that the vehicle's accelerator stuck. She died in a crash.
On a lighter note I was very pleased to note the author's concern for animals. For instance, one of the photos show a small cat being resuscitated with an oxygen mask after it was rescued from a fire. The last picture in the book has a firefighter carrying a dog to safety from a burning house (sadly, according to the caption the dog died despite attempts to reanimate it).
The book is great, my only complaint is its over emphasis on car crashes (almost half of the book). Hugely recommended!

It taught a lot of Doctors information