Everyday Sports Injuries: The Essential Step-by-Step Guide to Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment

by D.K. Publishing

More people than ever before are regularly taking part in recreational sports, often gaining enormous health benefits from their chosen activity. But sports also carry the risk of injury, and each year there are millions of sports injuries in the US alone. Featuring more than 150 step-by- step exercise routines for recovery after injury, improving strength and performance, and reducing risk of injury, Everyday Sports Injuries is a practical guide to recognizing, treating, and preventing injury, with the goal of getting back in action as soon as possible.

272 pages, Paperback

First published October 18, 2010

About the author

Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.

Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[CherylR]

This is a good reference book for sports injuries. Lots of rehab exercises and stretches with very good illustrations.

[Cloay]

- available in SG NLB 617.1027 (Sengkang

[Hollis]

Two thirds of the book is simply here's what toy can hurt by doing this and this activity, then go to the hospital if it does.
The last third is examples of exercises to rehab and strengthen before injury. Discusses what each exercise works but must but together your own program.