Synopses & Reviews
This book has earned its place as an invaluable hand-book of injury prevention and treatment for all runners--whether they are elite athletes, twice-a-week joggers, athletes at school level, or those who run mainly to build fitness for other sports. Fully updated in the Second Edition, this popular and well-established book offers the latest medical research, tips on injury prevention, injury profiles of international and South African athletes, medical drawings to help you locate and understand your injury, photographic demonstrations of stretching exercises, and a glossary on commonly used terms used when discussing running injuires. It is an indispensable guide for coaches, parents, and doctors.
Synopsis
In this completely revised edition of their best-selling handbook, Tim Noakes and Stephen Granger present the most up-to-date findings on running injuries, and their prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
At some point in their running careers, most runners find themselves injured, in pain, or even laid off. Running Injuries is the ultimate resource on injury prevention and is the unrivalled guide for runners of all levels--from elite athletes to weekend joggers to doctors.