Healthy Runner's Handbook

by Lyle J. Micheli, Mark Jenkins, Mark Jenkins

Book Overview

Each year millions of avid runners take to the streets in pursuit of improved performance. While many succeed in pushing their bodies to new physical limits, many more push too hard and end up with overuse injuries.>Healthy Runner's Handbook> was written to help runners put an end to nagging overuse injuries and continue running safely and successfully. Not only does the book show how to diagnose, care for, and rehabilitate 31 specific overuse injuries,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0880115246
• ISBN13: 9780880115247
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

The BEST Running-Injury book I've found.

I've went through about 4 books looking for help with my own running injuries, and this one was BY FAR the best. More information, catagorized wonderfully, and very easy to comprehend and apply to yourself. Even though this book has more info in it than injury-related, at least half of the book is based on injury, and I can't recommend THIS section of the book highly enough. A real winner.

Wish I had this when I started

This is an excellent reference.The chapter on preventing injuries is alone worth the price of the book. The authors clearly explain muscle imbalance and its possible effects on runners. There's even a self-test for muscle imbalance and techniques for establishing proper balance.Many ex-runners probably would have kept it up, if they had read this book. It helps you diagnose and manage injuries yourself and point you to a doctor when you really need one.I've shown this to several runners, who immediately want their own copy.