Does It Hurt When I Do This? - An Irreverent Guide to Understanding Injury Prevention

Mark Salamon integrates current scientific literature with his own twenty-five years of experience as a physical therapist to produce this humorous "owners manual" for the human body. Far from a dry guide, this entertaining read teaches readers how to maintain and restore good health, and can be referenced again and again when injuries arise.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: How a Healthy Body Works
1 The Parts List
2 The Mind-Body Connection
Part II: Keeping the Body Healthy
3 Nutrition
4 Sleep
5 Strengthening
6 Stretching
7 Endurance Training
8 The Aging Body
Part III: The Injured Body
9 Types of Injuries
10 The Healing Process
11 Solving Mysteries
12 Peripheral Neuropathy - A Case Study
Part IV: Treatments for Injuries
13 Alternative Therapies
14 Specific Injuries
15 Foot and Ankle
16 Knee
17 Hip
18 Back
19 Neck
20 Shoulder
21 Elbow
22 Wrist and Hand
Appendix I
Appendix II
Bibliography
Notes
Index
About the Author

About the author

Mark Salamon is a physical therapist at Coordinated Health in Allentown, Pennsylvania. For twenty-five years he has taught young athletes, middle-aged weekend warriors, workers injured on the job, and senior citizens how to restore their lives after injuries or surgeries. He has published over sixty humorous articles in publications such as The Haven and The Scene and Heard, and has helped over 20,000 patients decrease their anxiety and frustration by making them laugh.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Salamon
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781538149027
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-4902-7
• No. of pages: 246
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Rehabilitation, HEALTH & FITNESS / Healthy Living, MEDICAL / Sports Medicine, HEALTH & FITNESS / Pain Management, MEDICAL / Allied Health Services / Physical Therapy, HEALTH & FITNESS / Healing, Popular medicine & health, Pain & pain management, Coping with personal problems, Coping with disability, Sports injuries & medicine, Pain and pain management, Complementary therapies, healing & health, physiotherapy, Complementary therapies, healing and health, Popular medicine and health, Sports injuries and medicine, Coping with / advice about physical impairments / disability, HEALTH & FITNESS / Disability