Exercise RX: The Lifetime Prescription for Reducing Your Medical Risks and Sports Injuries

Yanker, Gary

ISBN 10: 1568362471 / ISBN 13: 9781568362472

Published by Kodansha, New York, NY, 1999

About this Item

478 pp. Tightly bound. Bump to top back corner. Text is Free of Markings.

Seller Inventory # 070304

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Exercise RX: The Lifetime Prescription for Reducing Your Medical Risks and Sports Injuries
• Publisher: Kodansha, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1568362471
• ISBN 13: 9781568362472
• Binding: Cloth
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus Dust Jacket

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Synopsis

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

Reviews

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
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