Running Injuries: Treatment and Prevention Review

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(More customer reviews)First let me say that I am a big fan of Galloway. For those of you who are not familiar with him, he advocates a three day a week, low mileage training method where you alternate walking and running rather than running consistently for races from the 5k to the marathon. He firmly believes that this reduces injury rates. Personally I have struggled with runners knee for years and despite doctors and therapists I continue to struggle with it. Galloway's running methods have allowed me to continue running regularly with minimal knee problems, so when I saw this book I thought I may find some new and helpful information. Well, for those of you familiar with Galloway, don't waste your money, nothing new here. As far as the treatment reccomendations by Dr. Hannaford, they are vague and general. For example, regarding runners knee he states that strengthening VMO (a portion of your quadraceps muscle) is very effective but then does not give any exercises on how to do this, or states that a knee brace or strap may be helpful and that you should try a variety of them to see what works for you. Again, no guidance. Why would I use an open patella brace over a closed one? Why try a tendon strap. Some direction would be helpful. Truthfuly he does a far better job at describing injuries than he does at reccomending treatment, a major flaw in this book. Overall not very helpfull. I am donating mine to the library, maybe someone will find it more helpful than me.

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"Running Injuries - Treatment and Prevention" offers easy to access tips on treating and avoiding injuries. It is written in a language that is easy to understand. This book will help runners and walkers understand how injuries occur, how to print them, how to heal them: knee, foot, calf, iliotibial band, plantar fasciia, achilles tendon, neuroma, and much more. There is also a section on coming back from an injury and exercising while injured.

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