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Do you know…

• Which exercises cause unnecessary wear and tear on your body?
• What to do during the first critical few seconds following a sports injury?
• When an off-the-rack arch support can be as effective as a $200 custom-made orthotic device?
• How to keep in condition during rehabilitation?

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yeah it's okay
This book is a step up from common sense in that it has a few more details when dealing with certain injured body parts.But unless you're going to be in the middle of nowhere doing extreme sports, you probably don't need this book.If you hurt yourself, the procedure is pretty much the same for everything: rest and professional help when you need it.

A Bit Weird in Spots...
I just got this book today.It's a great idea, a sports injury handbook organized by bodypart **and** sport, but right off the bat, while browsing, I notice a few oddities: on page 221, Dr. Levy claims "exercise machines require you to lift too much weight," which is weird because one can certainly adjust the resistance on most any exercise machine out there -- and he makes that statement while advising free weights!Any bodybuilder or powerlifter knows that it is typically harder to use free weights than a machine: for example, dumbbell curls are much harder than machine biceps curls at the same weight.Also, on page 17 there is an illustration of the behind-the-neck pull-up, which is potentially more dangerous for some people than the regular front-of-the-neck type of pull-up.That's a very strange thing to see in a book on sports injuries!Though it's not exactly a dangerous movement, it does place the rotator cuff at greater risk of injury, especially for people who might have weak muscles and tendons there to begin with.The regular pull-up works the same muscles just as well, but without that slightly higher risk of injury.

I hope I don't find any other strange advice or illustrations in this book....

Appropriate to the athlete
I have not read this book, but the reviews indicate it is for the current athlete with an injury.One reviewer unfairly slammed Marilyn Moffat's book since it was not right for him.I read and evaluated her Physical Therapy book from the library as a guide for my 84 year old father.He was a super fit elderly sculler who wore out his beach volleyball playing granddaughters double sculling for 2 hours at a shot, and was in the hospital for 14 months recovering from surgery to reduce intracranial bleeding, which was followed by seizures, pneumonia, and kidney failure. He essentially woke up a year later a live but terribly weak shadow of himself.He needs rehabilitation from, literally zero strength. He is learning to walk, talk, and eat, and more.He's gone from feeling like 40 to feeling like a hundred, but with no long slide of good memories.Very discouraging.Her book will help me start him back to a pleasant final years, from a zero base. I will buy that book to help him.I may be able to use this book for myself, but he could not.

Exactly what I needed . . .
An excellent book. At the age of 40 I pay for my active lifestyle with some aches and pains; this book is helping me live pain free. Unlike many PT type books, Levy is specific with his advice, not making you waste your time on dozens of stretches and exercises. He'll lead you directly to what you need to know to fix the problem. Other books seem shy about recommending specific exercises for specific problems; Levy's not. I ordered several of these types of books at once and eventually resold all the others. This is the one I kept.

EXCEPTIONAL MATERIAL ON FITNESS &SPORTS INJURIES
Alan Levy has done a fantastic job in putting together so much in one book. It has nearly everything an athlete requires to not only stay in shape but also treating all kinds of injuries from little niggles to thosethat need surgery. And its all been bonded together in a very organized andmethodical manner.

To begin with Dr. Levy emphasizes the importance ofwarming up and stretching before and after workouts and shows how to dothis. Next, he explains about nutrition for athletes. After that he laysout the benefits of and what it really means to stay healthy. This isfollowed by First-Aid for sports.

Starting with the fifth chapter heprovides detailed information about what to know about the various parts ofthe body, their intricacies, and how they areused in sports and preciselywhat occurs with them when we feel pain or discomfort. For example, chapter10 is about the Thigh and Hip, Chapter 6for the Shoulder, and so on. Inaddition, he suggests various ways of diagnosing injuries correctly and howbest to treat them. Whether an economical ready-made arch support willwork, or one must see a qualified physician for a particular problem, Dr.Levy seems one not to miss a trick.

Then there is a chapter each on aspecific sport and the most likely injuries to take place in every one ofthose and what all can be done to prevent them but if they do happen, thenhow to treat them. From Baseball to Running, Golf to Skiing, it haseverything.

At the end he also suggests what to look for in a SportsSpecialist.

Its only drawback is that understanding some of the materialcan be a daunting task as the lay person does not possess the expertise ofDr. Levy in Sportsmedicine.

And last but not the least, my kneeailment got cured courtesy of following the treatment plan outlined in theSports Injury Handbook. ... Read more

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In this thoroughly revised Second Edition, Glenn Wong updates and adds to his already highly successful First Edition. He addresses the significant changes that have come about in amateur sports law and administrative practice over the past several years. These changes impact amateur athletic associations; athletes' rights; administrative procedures; and the liability of sponsoring organizations. Issues of special topicality, including women's sports, drug testing, and the implications of changing from amateur status to professional, are closely examined. Amateur sports have expanded rapidly, as have legal issues and ramifications concerning them. Wong's careful, detailed, and clear exposition and analysis both organizes and clarifies fundamental principles affecting athletes, associations, and management in the category of amateur sports. This is an indispensable text, resource, and guide. ... Read more

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First issued in 1986, this volume and its companion on professional sports leagues were soon recognized as ideal sources for the sports law practitioner. Now, in a thoroughly revised and updated version, this book continues to identify the most significant and current cases in amateur sports, providing extensive analysis and interpretation of each case in a clear, readable, and lively style. ... Read more

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Chicago Amateur Boxing looks at the rich history of the Chicago Golden Gloves and Catholic Youth Organization boxing tournaments that were so popular in the mid-20th century and sent so many local fi ghters up the professional ranks. The Chicago Golden Gloves Tournament of Champions produced future world title holders such as Joe Louis (1937, 175 pounds) and Ernie Terrell (1957, 175 pounds), both of whom went on to win the world heavyweight championship. ... Read more

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Here is one of the first books specifically geared for legal practitioners involved in liability arising out of participation in professional and amateur athletics. In a lively and highly readable manner, Yasser applies tort law principles to a wide variety of sports cases--from such publicized cases as Dale Hackbart v. "Boobie" Clark, Rudy Tomjanovich v. The Los Angeles Lakers, and Bill Walton v. Dr. Cook to the more obscure such as Virgil v. Time Inc. and Spahn v. Julian Messner Inc. In each he expertly underscores relevant, useful information that can be used in daily practice. "The author, a torts professor and sports fan, examines in a sports setting such torts as negligence, products liability, and intentional interference with contractual relations. In each chapter, Professor Yasser prints edited versions of the landmark sports cases, takes an in-depth look at one major legal issue, and provides a broad summary of the law and a bibliography." Harvard Law Review ... Read more

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STEROID USE IN AMETUEAR SPORTS
I REALLY WANNA PROVIDE ALL THE BEST KNOWELAGE I HAVE REALATED TO ANABOLIC STEROID , BETA-AGONISTS AND GROWTH HARMONES. ... Read more

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Exploring the complex issues of class and gender relations, community building, and sport reform, "For the Love of the Game" analyses how local culture shapes the meanings of sport and examines the tensions that exist when athletes and sports teams become important symbols for the community. Nancy Bouchier traces the increasing importance of amateur sport to Woodstock and Ingersoll, two small nineteenth-century Ontario towns, revealing its intricate ties to urban boosterism and middle-class culture. Focusing on civic holiday celebrations, the establishment of organized clubs for cricket, baseball, and lacrosse, and the rise of spirited urban sports rivalries, Bouchier shows that small town interest in sports was much more than a pale imitation of the sporting life of Canada's major urban centres. ... Read more

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This is the first comprehensive record of amateur sports in Hong Kong. It tracks Hong Kong's sports pioneers through the early days of club and university sports, to the establishment of the Amateur Sports Federation and Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, to Hong Kong's first participation in the Commonwealth Games and the Asian Games, and eventually to winning gold in the Olympic Games, as well as recent developments.

Interspersed in the text are historical documents and photos, anecdotes, personal success stories, and reports. The invaluable efforts of individuals and groups to promote and participate in amateur sports in Hong Kong, and the encouragement their example gives to athletes after them, are all recounted here. This is the story of Hong Kong's quest for gold. ... Read more

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I was there
David Prouty hit real close to the bone in this treatise on amateur sports. I was a fly on the wall for nearly all of this and know all of the personalities first hand. He was basically the leader of chlldren all playing at their own version of Lord of the Flies. The egos, power struggles and inflated levels of self importance that many of the people he had to deal with would even be beyond the capabilities of a Jack Welch to master. The Amazon review at the lead of this is indeed totally inaccurate. Mr. Prouty was an honest, talented, imaginative and flexible leader with very strong principles that only bent when they needed even more flexibility just to keep peace amongst the "children."

In Spite of US
The review printed by Amazon that accompanies the advert for the book is clearly written by someone who has never worked in the amateur sports arena as Dave did. There are many of us who work as paid staff or as a professional/volunteer (someone who does not get paid but is expected to perform as if he/she did and maintain another career and family life at the same time)in a similar role to that of Dave with members of a Governing Body whose motives are either self preservation because it looks good on a CV or who, in spite of their considerable talents, spend their time fighting for their personal little issues or simply micro-manage. The book should be compulsary reading for anyone wanting to join or be elected to a sports NGB or who is simply going through the motions as a Board member.
Fortunately sport is changing, albeit slowly because its 'customers' are more demanding and more enlightened now than 20 years ago - they are less prepared to be seen as somewhere down the pecking order of priorities after the elected officers and in some cases staff too.
For anyone who wants an emotional journey in this amateur sports world which still exists - told in an honest but dramatic way (which makes it easy reading) then this is the book - it is also worthy of re-printing and free distribution in the wider context of organisational change and governance/management issues. ... Read more

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Sport is a major social phenomenon of this century with political, cultural, economic, spiritual and aesthetic dimensions. Rowing, a minority sport compared with some, had managed to erect two controlling bodies by 1890, when sports and games began to be more organized. This organization was needed as an increasing number of people had more time to enjoy games and the greater ease of travel reinforced the need for everybody to accept agreed rules for whatever game it might be. This study traces the sport's influences, its champions, and the history of the amateur-versus-professional debate. A belief in the virtues of amateurism and of the need to play a game for its own sake, the author argues, meant that professionalism was to be avoided because victory became its own reward and the means often used - fouling and cheating - were to be resisted. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more