The Long Distance Runner S Guide To Injury Prevention And Treatment
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The Long Distance Runner's Guide to Injury Prevention and Treatment
Author: Brian J. Krabak
language: en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date: 2017-10-03
For any runner who loves hitting the pavement and conquering half-, full-, and ultra-marathons, getting injured is a terrifying, and often heartbreaking, setback. Yet, almost three-quarters of long distance runners will suffer from a serious injury several times in their athletic career. Although it may be impossible to completely avoid injury, The Long Distance Runner’s Guide to Injury Prevention and Treatment is a vital source to help those who love to run understand some of the most common causes of injuries, and learn how to best avoid and treat athletic ailments. In this book, expert editors and long-time runners Brian Krabak and Grant Lipman combine valuable insights, tips, and tactics from over a dozen medical professionals who specialize in treating endurance athletes. With chapters on important and diverse topics such as proper nutrition, muscular ailments, skeletal injuries, medical illnesses caused by racing and proper recovery, The Long Distance Runner’s Guide to Injury Prevention and Treatment is a must-have on the shelf of every harrier.
Running Injuries
Author: Timothy Noakes
language: en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date: 1996
This book has earned its place as an invaluable handbook of injury prevention and treatment for all runners - whether elite athletes, twice-a-week joggers, athletes at school level or those who run mainly to build fitness for other sports. It is an indispensable guide for coaches, parents and doctors. Newly updated, this popular and trusted book offers the latest research on treating and overcoming running injuries in one easy-to-use volume; new insights into preventing injury, and a checklist of important points to help you run injury-free; revealing analysis of the injury profiles of elite international athletes; a user-friendly diagnostic chart and helpful medical drawings to make it easy to locate and understand your injury; photographs demonstrating the correct way to do stretching exercises; a glossary of terms used when discussing running injuries, and an index.