Sports Injury Handbook

Allan M. Levy

Description

Do you know…
• Which exercises cause unnecessary wear and tear on your body?
• What to do during the first critical few seconds following a sports injury?
• When an off-the-rack arch support can be as effective as a $200 custom-made orthotic device?
• How to keep in condition during rehabilitation?
Dr. Allan Levy knows. As team doctor for the New York Giants football team, he has treated every kind of sports injury there is, from strains and sprains to more serious tears and fractures. In Sports Injury Handbook, he shares his vast practical knowledge of sports medicine with recreational athletes who want to keep in shape, while minimizing aches, pains, and injuries. For ease of use, the main part of the guide is organized by body part and sport. To find out why, for example, your knee is sore and how to treat it, simply turn to the knee chapter. Then learn how to avoid further risk of knee injuries in sports-specific chapters on aerobics, jogging, tennis, skiing, basketball, and many more. Peppered with firsthand stories and anecdotes from professional sports, the Sports Injury Handbook is an entertaining, informative guide to the latest methods of injury prevention and treatment. In it, you’ll discover:
• The conditioning, nutrition, and strength training techniques professional athletes use to stay in top physical shape
• Easy, step-by-step rehabilitative exercises you can perform at home
• Special precautions for women, children, and older athletes
• How to prevent or treat the most common injuries in more than two dozen sports, including aerobics, baseball, basketball, bowling, boxing, cycling, football, golf, gymnastics, hockey, running, skiing, soccer, swimming, tennis, triathlon, volleyball, walking, and wrestling

Sujets

• Sports
• Training
• Recreation

Informations

• Publié par: Turner Publishing Company
• Date de parution: 01 juin 1993
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781620459522
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

When picking a doctor, you trust you ll find someone who will take care of you physically and mentally. In Dr. Levy I have the best of both worlds. My ability to overcome pain and injury is largely due to the care I get from Dr. Levy.
Lawrence Taylor New York Giants
Doc Levy is a helluva doctor and a great technician. He has great sensitivity and knows how to take care of people in a nice way. He is someone I would always go to for any kind of sports injury.
Lou Carnesecca Former Head Coach St. John s University and New Jersey Nets
The first thing I did when I was coach of the Brooklyn Dodgers semipro football team was to hire Doc Levy. When I became the Giants director of operations, we revamped our medical staff and brought him in as the lead physician. Doc knows how and why sports injuries happen, and he certainly got the players back on the field as soon as possible without jeopardizing their health. He s a sensitive judge of a player as a person, not just a commodity.
Andy Robustelli Former Director of Operations New York Giants
Doc Levy was a leader of his profession in the 1960s and 1970s and continues to be the best in his field. He was doing sports medicine when no one knew what sports medicine was. Because he has a full understanding of it, I continue to call him for private consultations.
Charlie Theokus Athletic Director Temple University
Sports Injury Handbook
Professional Advice for Amateur Athletes
Allan M. Levy, MD Mark L. Fuerst

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Levy, Allan M.
Sports injury handbook: professional advice for amateur athletes / by Allan M. Levy and Mark L. Fuerst.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-471-54737-9 (pbk.: alk. paper):
1. Sports-Accidents and injuries-Treatment. 2. Sports-Accidents and injuries-Prevention. I. Fuerst, Mark. II. Title.
RD97.L48 1993
617.1 027-dc20 92-29435
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Contents
Foreword by Bill Parcells
Preface
Acknowledgments
Exercises
PART ONE Preventing Injuries
CHAPTER 1 Work Out to Win
CHAPTER 2 Eat to Compete
PART TWO Common Risks and Basic Safeguards
CHAPTER 3 Conditioning and Your Health
CHAPTER 4 First Aid: What to Do Until the Doctor Comes
PART THREE What to Know from Head to Toe
CHAPTER 5 The Head and Neck
CHAPTER 6 The Shoulder
CHAPTER 7 The Back and Ribs
CHAPTER 8 The Elbow
CHAPTER 9 The Wrist and Hand
CHAPTER 10 The Thigh and Hip
CHAPTER 11 The Knee
CHAPTER 12 The Lower Leg
CHAPTER 13 The Ankle
CHAPTER 14 The Foot
PART FOUR Sport-by-Sport Injuries
CHAPTER 15 Aerobics
CHAPTER 16 Baseball and Softball
CHAPTER 17 Basketball
CHAPTER 18 Bowling
CHAPTER 19 Boxing and Martial Arts
CHAPTER 20 Cycling
CHAPTER 21 Football and Rugby
CHAPTER 22 Golf
CHAPTER 23 Gymnastics and Cheerleading
CHAPTER 24 Hockey, Lacrosse, and Skating
CHAPTER 25 Running, Jogging, and Track and Field
CHAPTER 26 Skiing
CHAPTER 27 Soccer and Field Hockey
CHAPTER 28 Swimming and Other Water Sports
CHAPTER 29 Tennis and Other Racquet Sports
CHAPTER 30 Triathlon
CHAPTER 31 Volleyball
CHAPTER 32 Walking, Hiking, and Horseback Riding
CHAPTER 33 Weight Lifting and Body Building
CHAPTER 34 Wrestling
PART FIVE Sports Medicine for Everyone
CHAPTER 35 Female, Child, and Elderly Athletes
CHAPTER 36 How to Select a Sports Specialist
Index
Foreword
Dr. Allan Levy obviously enjoys working with athletes. He has a lifetime of knowledge about treating sports injuries to pass on to all athletes, amateur and professional alike.
In my years as head coach of the New York Giants, Doc Levy was the one doctor who handled the team s medical problems on a daily basis. Over the years with the Giants, he has become an integral part of the football team and has developed an ongoing, warm relationship with the players and coaching staff.
There s always some ache or pain bothering athletes, and Doc always seems to come up with ways to get players back in action quickly. I believe that the Giants players lose far less time to injury than other players because of his dedication and the time he and the trainers devote to them, as well as their establishment of a good conditioning program.
To reach your athletic peak and become a winner, try taking Doc Levy s expert advice.
B ILL P ARCELLS
Preface
Stars such as the New York Giants Lawrence Taylor, the New York Nets Julius Dr. J Erving, and the New York Yankees Jim Bouton represent just a portion of the athletes I see and treat. The vast majority are recreational athletes.
As more and more people have fit regular exercise into their lifestyles, sports-related injuries have increased dramatically. Researchers estimate that as many as 25 million weekend jocks and joggers seek medical attention each year.
I ve written this book because I believe that recreational athletes deserve the same caliber of information on the subject of treating and preventing sports injuries that professional athletes receive.
Sports injuries are a fact of life. By the very nature of contact sports, people become injured. Even in noncontact sports, the repetition of body movements leads to overuse injuries. So recreational athletes need to know how to use first aid, when to see a doctor, what their symptoms mean, what treatments will work, and how to safely recover.
Recreational athletes should also know how to prevent unnecessary injuries. Athletes who play or work out without professional instruction need tips on how to perform to win without getting hurt. Athletes who don t understand the importance of warming up and warming down should know why these are the keys to a proper workout. The tennis player, for instance, who spends three minutes rallying with his partner before the usual Sunday game and can t figure out why he tears calf muscles the first time he rushes the net needs to discover that stretching is the single most effective method of preventing an injury; he also needs to learn the best exercises for his sport. The runner who rarely worked on leg strength and stride mechanics until after she suffered an injury needs the same general conditioning and strength-training techniques that elite runners use.
Whatever your age, sport, or level of conditioning and experience, this book is for you. It puts the best, most current sports medicine knowledge at your fingertips in an easy-to-use format.
HOW TO USE THIS BOOK
In Part One , I take you through the essential elements of a proper workout: warmup and stretching, then either conditioning or strength training, and finally warmdown and stretching again. I also provide sound advice on what foods to eat-and when-for peak performance.
The stretching program will increase your flexibility. Flexibility is particularly important for the middle-aged athlete who tries to swing golf clubs the first nice spring weekend or who goes on a weekend ski trip after the first snowfall. Returning to action after a long layoff puts you at high risk of an injury. Overstretching a joint or muscle may result in a sprain or muscle pull, causing many miserable Mondays after weekend sports.
The strength-training program will help you build muscles throughout the body.
In Part Two , I focus on the most common concerns of, and fundamental precautions for, today s recreational athletes, from heart health and steroid use to on-the-spot treatment of everyday problems.
Part Three provides a complete guide to sports injuries, organized by area of the body, from head to toe. You ll learn how to recognize and treat injuries for each body part and determine when it s safe to return to action. You ll also discover how to prevent reinjury using specific exercises and protective equipment. I give practical advice, not just theoretical applications. For example, I tell when a 4 foam pad may ease a runner s foot pain as well as, if not better than, a 200 custom-made shoe insert.
I also note when an amateur s injury is different from a professional s. A weekend tennis player or a high school pitcher with a sore shoulder may have stretched out the rotator cuff muscles across the top of the shoulder, and for these athletes, simple exercises can usually reduce the stress on the shoulder joint. Only a professional tennis player or major league pitcher is likely to need surgery for a rotator cuff problem.
Anyone, however, can learn the rehabilitation techniques that the professionals use. Amateur athletes may not have four hours a day to devote to rehabilitation as pros do, but the methods are the same. It s just a matter of degree.
At the beginning of each chapter in Part Three you ll see a box of Related Sports Chapters. This allows you to cross-reference a body part injury to a specific sport. For example, if your knee is sore, you can begin by finding the cause of the soreness and how to treat it in Chapter 11 , The Knee. Then y