Sports Medicine Bible : Prevent, Detect, and Treat Your Sports Injuries Through the Latest Medical Techniques

You've been working out at the gym a couple years. You have a nagging pain behind the knee that just won't go away. You begin to wonder if you somehow managed to tear the meniscus or the ACL. What's happening?Also, you've found it almost impossible to do leg curls because the pain along the sides of your knees has become unbearable. How did it start and how do you get rid of it? Was it from all the running you did, all the weight trainging, or all the martial arts stuff you've been practicing?Shoulder pain that won't go away after a few weeks of intense martial arts training. Pain in the bicep that hangs on like ramora on shark. What can be done about it? Should you go to the doctor and maybe get recommended for arthroscopic surgery or leave it alone? Should you try to work through it with more exercise?Micheli's book is excellent for narrowing down the problem to very specific causes and what to do. Sometimes he says you've got to see the doctor, then start RICE-ing, do special exercises.The pain behind the knee? Popliteus tendonitis is a good possibility. How do you fix it? Micheli tells you how.The pain along the sides of the knees that make it impossible to do leg curls? Illiotibial band tendonitis. How do you fix it. RICE it, and do certain stretching exercises to loosen these long bands of muscle and tendon that travel all the way from the hip to the calf.If you do any kind of sports you are likely to get injured, even the injury of repetitive motion, similar to carpal tunnel tendonitis. These pains won't go away on their own. Young or old (like me), things happen, especially if you're active, that go beyond plain ol' muscular pain. Fractures, sprains, overuse injuries of bursitis and tendonitis. Micheli helps you figure out what's wrong. Yes, sometimes you'll have to go to a sports medicine doc or orthopedist, but many times, you can fix it yourself.Allan M. Levy and Mark L. Fuerst have a great companion book for Micheli's book with practical applications called Sports Injury Handbook.If you can get only one of them, get the bible, otherwise you'd be better off with both. A few good stretching books would help too.

I had a pulled hip flexor that I couldn't seem to do anything about; every stretch, everything else I tried just made it worse. and worse to the point of becoming blinding, screaming pain. Not a good situation.Not wanting to wait a couple weeks to get in to see a doctor, and knowing that the doc would just prescribe physical therapy, I thought I'd try to find something that would work in a book or two. (Note: This wasn't emergency-room serious; I was pretty sure that if I found the right book, I'd be able to handle this myself.)I'm usually hesitant to try anything that claims to be a "bible", but from the reviews, I thought this might be the right one to try.It was. A couple days following the book's recommendations on handling this sort of injury, and I knew I was on the right track. Within a week, it was pretty much back to normal.Now this is my go-to reference when something hurts. Now I'm working through some of the recommendations on preventing injuries. This is a very handy book to have.

This is an excellent book. It cover all types of sports injuries, knees, feet, wrist, etc., but also hurts and pains that can result from other activities. It seems everyone in the family gets some sort of injury or ache or pain from time to time that this book is useful for. I often use it to try to figure out if a pain or injury to myself or a family member is something we can self treat, or we need to see an orthopedist. It is well laid out, easy to understand, and appears to have good medical advice.

I had bought this book many years ago (when I was studing Sport Medicine). I lost the original. However, recently, my wife fell and injured her knee. Remembering how excellent this book was from years ago, I bought it again, but this time for my wife. This book has saved us hundreds of dollars by not having to go to a physical therapist. My wife is doing the excercises recommended in the book and is doing much better. I HIGHLY recommend this book. The only down fall (and it's not a big deal), is that all photos are black and white.

As a massage therapist, I found this very helpful for my clients.

An excellent resource for aging old farts like !!!! I know we will be using it often. I recommend to help anyone aging to figure out what they did wrong to cause the ouweeee and how to restrengthen it!

Could.use more exercises for after injury. More photos not.drawings.

I bought this book for a high school junior taking sports medicine. It is well organized and contained the information she needed. As a pharmacist and a mom, I wish I had this on hand back when my kids were first in t-ball then soccer etc. It gives common sense information and approaches to very often seen injuries.

Much of the information on stretching and warmups is erroneous but the rest of the book is a good read albeit a good 20 years old. The book is listed on the Stadion website (ie Tom Kurz's site) and needs to be updated there, as well.DO NOT buy it at anywhere near full price due to the age of the information.