Exercise Rx: The Lifetime Prescription for Reducing Your Medical Risks and Sports Injuries - Hardcover

Yanker, Gary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1568362471 ISBN 13: 9781568362472

Publisher: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1999

Synopsis

Contains exercises for preventing, delaying, and reversing the onset of major diseases and injuries including exercises that aid in recovery

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Review

Which exercises will help your heart? Which will help you age more slowly? Lose weight faster? Are any exercises more harmful than helpful? In this hefty how-to manual, author Gary Yanker presents exercise programs that prevent and rehabilitate illnesses and conditions. You fill out profiles that evaluate your age, gender, fitness level, activity preference, family health history, medical risk factors, and physical weaknesses or disabilities. Backed by a team of medical experts, Yanker presents programs that improve heart health, psychological state, the immune system, and more. "Prevention ExRx" shows you how to delay or prevent diseases and injuries through aerobic, strengthening, stretching, and postural exercises. "Rehabilitation ExRx" helps you manage pain and restore health after injuries, with an exercise prescription of strengthening and stretching based on your injury.

The amount of information may seem overwhelming, but it is presented clearly, with jaunty chapter titles and subtitles ("Why Thicker Bones Are Better than Thinner Thighs" and "Buns of Steel, but a Heart of Mush," for example) and plenty of self-tests and line drawings. Yanker, a long-recognized authority on walking and moderate exercise, is the also the author of ExerciseWalking. --Joan Price

From Library Journal

A specialist on moderate exercise and the author of walking exercise books (Sportwalking), Yanker here aims to move exercise from the realm of competitive sports to that of preventative and rehabilitative medicine. He provides preventative and therapeutic exercise prescriptions for over 500 ailments, divided into various categories, e.g., MuSkel, Meta, Cardio, and Psyche-Immune. In the opening pages, he also provides the self-analysis tools needed to relate risk factors to the ailments he cites. Well organized and thoughtful, this book includes good common sense about making exercise a priority but lacks authoritative referencing to support some scientific claims. And it's hardly unique, since this information is available in the academic physical therapy literature. Still, the book's lay reader-friendly format recommends it to public libraries.ARebecca Cress-Ingebo, Wright State Univ Libs., Dayton, OH
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kodansha Amer Inc
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1568362471
• ISBN 13: 9781568362472
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 478