Treat Your Own Knees: Simple Exercises to Build Strength, Flexibility, Responsiveness and Endurance - Softcover

Jim Johnson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0897934229 ISBN 13: 9780897934220

Publisher: Hunter House, 2003

Synopsis

Jim Johnson has researched hundreds of scientific journal articles to find and test the simplest most effective do-it-yourself treatments for knee pain. In this compact and accessible book, he shows readers exactly how to improve and maintain the functioning of their knees by enhancing the four crucial abilities every knee must have:

• muscular strength
  
• flexibility
  
• responsiveness (proprioception)
  
• endurance
  

A chapter is devoted to each of these four functions, showing why they are essential. The reader is shown exactly how to do simple home exercises designed to restore or improve that particular ability. The last chapter is a "master plan" that pulls together all the concepts and exercises into a time-efficient exercise program. The author guides the reader effortlessly through the exercise routine.
Clear drawings illustrate the muscles responsible for knee pain and the exact way to do the exercises.
All the information is based on research trials and studies and evidence from peer-reviewed journals. The author has chosen for this book the best techniques for relieving knee pain.

About this title

About the Author

Jim Johnson, P.T. is a physical therapist who has spent over nineteen years treating both inpatients and outpatients with a wide range of pain and mobility problems. He has written many books based completely on published research and controlled trials including Treat Your Own Knee Arthritis, The Sixty-Second Motivator, Treat Your Own Rotator Cuff, The 5-Minute Plantar Fasciitis Solution, Finding Happiness in a Frustrating World, Exercise Beats Depression, Treat Your Own Tennis Elbow, and Treat Your Own Spinal Stenosis. His books have been translated into other languages and thousands of copies have been sold worldwide. Besides working full-time as a clinician in a large teaching hospital and writing books, Jim Johnson is a certified Clinical Instructor by the American Physical Therapy Association and enjoys teaching physical therapy students from all over the United States.

From the Inside Flap

Other bestsellers by Jim Johnson, PT...

• The Healthy Thumb Handbook

• I Tore My Knee Meniscus, Now What?

• Getting the Most Out of Your Inversion Table

• Treat Your Own Spinal Stenosis

• Bulletproof Your Shoulder

• Treat Your Own Tennis Elbow

• Treat Your Own Hand and Thumb Osteoarthritis

• The Five-Minute Plantar Fasciitis Solution

• Treat Your Own Iliotibial Band Syndrome

• Bulletproof Your Knee

• Treat Your Own Achilles Tendinitis

• Treat Your Own Rotator Cuff

• Bulletproof Your Hamstrings

• Treating Patellar Tendinitis with Strengthening Exercises

• Treat Your Own Knee Arthritis

• The Sixty-Second Motivator

• Finding Happiness in a Frustrating World

• Exercise Beats Depression

Edition details

• Publisher: Hunter House
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0897934229
• ISBN 13: 9780897934220
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96