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Treat Your Own Knees: Simple Exercises to Build Strength, Flexibility, Responsiveness and Endurance
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List Price:
$10.95
Fitness-Health-Care Price:
$8.76
Your Savings: $ 2.19 ( 20% )
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Manufacturer: Hunter House
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 617.582
EAN: 9780897934220
ISBN: 0897934229
Label: Hunter House
Manufacturer: Hunter House
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 116
Publication Date: 2003-11-11
Publisher: Hunter House
Studio: Hunter House
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Editorial Reviews:
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Treat Your Own Knees shows how to reduce or end knee pain by improving knee function. In easy-to-grasp language, author Jim Johnson covers the physiology of the knee and the kinds of pain that affect it, along with the psychological aspects. He offers a series of straightforward exercises based on current medical data and tested in his practice. Black-and-white drawings show exactly how to do the exercises and pinpoint the precise muscles responsible for the problem. This concise, simple guide provides an effective do-it-yourself program.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: I loved the book
Comment: This is a very good book to help take care of your knees. The doctor is from Emory University in Atlanta so I trust the author and the Doctor too.
If I don't take care of my knees I have a lot of pain. I really needed this book.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good Information
Comment: I bought this book for my husband. He has had arthroscopic surgery on his left knee twice. And has arthritis in both knees. He has a lot of pain and stiffness. After 2 weeks of doing the strengthening exercises in this book, he has more flexibility and less pain. He can get in and out of the tub with less difficulty. He says it is a really great book and reccomends
it to anyone with knee problems. He also says the book is very easy to understand. It explains the way a knee works in terms a non-medical person can understand. Overall a great product.
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Summary: Help Your Knees Heal!!
Comment: I read this book cover to cover and found it most helpful. I don't believe in surgery unless absolutely necessary. This book guides you through all the things to do to improve your own knee health without the surgery. Fantastic!
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Summary: 98 pages too many yet left me wanting more
Comment: After reading the reviews and suffering from knee pain, I decided to buy this book. My expectations were pretty high since all of the reviews were glowing. Perhaps that's where I went wrong.
I was expecting a series of ailments and exercises to help alleviate them. Instead you get one strengthening exercise, a few stretches, one prioperception exercise and a recommendation for some endurance exercise. All of this could have fit onto a single sheet of paper.
Sure the discussion of the studies is interesting but it really doesn't help me treat my knees. By taking the step of buying the book, I already had commited to wanting better knees and the author didn't need to convince me to do exercises or stretch.
All in all, it was a quick read and at ~$10, was less than most people pay for a co-pay. I'd recommend it if you want some general information about knee health and studies but not if you are looking for rehab exercises to get better knees.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Decent book to be read in a single sitting
Comment: This book is okay. I can't complain because its relatively inexpensive otherwise would be 3 stars. Still, I don't find anything truly great about the book. The one nugget of information I did get from the book was that your knee actually rotates your lower leg (we all know it extends and flexes, but the book actually proves to you that your own knees rotate the lower leg as well). Due to the price, I don't mind the purchase. I wouldn't recommend this to any younger readers, I myself am 30 and don't find the 'treatments' all that relevant. I sometimes have mild knee pain that for me seems to be better treated by doing full depth squats (yes, full depth squats, performed properly are good for you and do not hurt your knees).
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