Arthritis: Your Complete Exercise Guide (Cooper Clinic and Research Institute Fitness Series)

You can fight back against arthritis! Arthritis: Your Complete Exercise Guide provides you with a safe and sensible exercise program that will help you reduce the adverse effects of arthritis and improve your overall fitness.

Arthritis patients will find this book to be invaluable. Arthritis: Your Complete Exercise Guide targets the flexibility, strength, and aerobic activities most beneficial to people with arthritis.

In this book you will find a clear explanation of what arthritis is, essentials on tailoring an exercise program to your capabilities, guidelines for safe exercise, four complete exercise programs, and a unique Health Points System to help you maintain motivation and gauge your progress.

Use Arthritis: Your Complete Exercise Guide as a basis for discussion with your doctor and as a guide to help you work moderate exercise into your daily routine.

This book is part of The Cooper Clinic and Research Institute Fitness Series--the first series to provide an exercise rehabilitation alternative for people with chronic medical conditions. Other topics in the series include diabetes, chronic fatigue, breathing disorders, and stroke. The author, Dr. Neil F. Gordon, is the director of exercise physiology at The Cooper Institute for Aerobics Research in Dallas, Texas and is widely regarded as a leading expert on exercise and health.

Dr. Neil F. Gordon is widely regarded as a leading medical authority on exercise and health. Before receiving his master's degree in public health from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1989, Dr. Gordon received doctoral degrees in exercise physiology and medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He also served as medical director of cardiac rehabilitation and exercise physiology for 6 years at I Military Hospital in Pretoria, South Africa.

Since 1987, Dr. Gordon has been the director of exercise physiology at the internationally renowned Cooper Institute for Aerobics Research in Dallas, Texas. He has also written over 50 papers related to exercise and medicine. Dr. Gordon is also coauthor of the book Don't Count Yourself Out: Staying Fit after Thirty-Five with Jimmy Connors.

Dr. Gordon is a member of the American Heart Association and American Diabetes Association. He is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR). He also has served on the board of directors for AACVPR, the Texas Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation, and the American Heart Association (Dallas affiliate).