A primer filled with valuable information that reads like a training manual for professionals.
Reznik provides a thorough look at how to prevent and treat knee and shoulder injuries in this nonfiction guide.
This book offers an in-depth exploration of knee and shoulder injuries. Part One, “Injuries in Children,” emphasizes the importance of safety in children’s sports activities and covers topics like overuse injuries, general sports advice for children, and knee pain in youngsters. This section is crucial for those involved in youth sports, highlighting the need for proper training and preventive measures. Part Two, “The Knee,” delves into various knee injuries and conditions, such as “water on the knee,” ACL tears, osteoarthritis, meniscus tears, and other cartilage issues. It also discusses severe conditions like kneecap pain and dislocations, and the necessity of knee replacements in some cases. Part Three, “The Shoulder,” is all about the shoulder and its injuries, including frozen shoulder, shoulder instability and dislocations, SLAP tears, rotator cuff tears, and issues with the bicep tendon and AC joint. Part Four, “Sports Tumors, General Injury Prevention, and Bone Health,” broadens the discussion to include tumors, strategies for injury prevention, and maintaining bone health. A final special section (“Why Am I in Pain?”) provides guidance on understanding pain and communicating effectively with health care providers. The book is filled with useful information, but the text is often dense and daunting, reading like a textbook. There are useful pieces for the layman, such as the “Dos and Don’ts” of injury prevention in the child athlete and an extensive list of things that can go wrong with the shoulder. Medical professionals might find these elements a bit basic, but the rest of the book is filled with material most suitable for them, including X-rays used as illustrations. Overall, the book is a valuable resource for athletes, coaches, parents, and medical professionals, offering comprehensive insights into sports and other injuries and their management.
A primer filled with valuable information that reads like a training manual for professionals.Pub Date: Sept. 13, 2023
ISBN: 9798986347233
Page Count: 218
Publisher: Self
Review Posted Online: Nov. 16, 2023
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
Skloot's meticulous, riveting account strikes a humanistic balance between sociological history, venerable portraiture and...
A dense, absorbing investigation into the medical community's exploitation of a dying woman and her family's struggle to salvage truth and dignity decades later.
In a well-paced, vibrant narrative, Popular Science contributor and Culture Dish blogger Skloot (Creative Writing/Univ. of Memphis) demonstrates that for every human cell put under a microscope, a complex life story is inexorably attached, to which doctors, researchers and laboratories have often been woefully insensitive and unaccountable. In 1951, Henrietta Lacks, an African-American mother of five, was diagnosed with what proved to be a fatal form of cervical cancer. At Johns Hopkins, the doctors harvested cells from her cervix without her permission and distributed them to labs around the globe, where they were multiplied and used for a diverse array of treatments. Known as HeLa cells, they became one of the world's most ubiquitous sources for medical research of everything from hormones, steroids and vitamins to gene mapping, in vitro fertilization, even the polio vaccine—all without the knowledge, must less consent, of the Lacks family. Skloot spent a decade interviewing every relative of Lacks she could find, excavating difficult memories and long-simmering outrage that had lay dormant since their loved one's sorrowful demise. Equal parts intimate biography and brutal clinical reportage, Skloot's graceful narrative adeptly navigates the wrenching Lack family recollections and the sobering, overarching realities of poverty and pre–civil-rights racism. The author's style is matched by a methodical scientific rigor and manifest expertise in the field.
Skloot's meticulous, riveting account strikes a humanistic balance between sociological history, venerable portraiture and Petri dish politics.Pub Date: Feb. 9, 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4000-5217-2
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Crown
Review Posted Online: Dec. 22, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 2010
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The lessons to draw are obvious: Smoke more dope, eat less meat. Like-minded readers will dig it.
The chef, rapper, and TV host serves up a blustery memoir with lashings of self-help.
“I’ve always had a sick confidence,” writes Bronson, ne Ariyan Arslani. The confidence, he adds, comes from numerous sources: being a New Yorker, and more specifically a New Yorker from Queens; being “short and fucking husky” and still game for a standoff on the basketball court; having strength, stamina, and seemingly no fear. All these things serve him well in the rough-and-tumble youth he describes, all stickball and steroids. Yet another confidence-builder: In the big city, you’ve got to sink or swim. “No one is just accepted—you have to fucking show that you’re able to roll,” he writes. In a narrative steeped in language that would make Lenny Bruce blush, Bronson recounts his sentimental education, schooled by immigrant Italian and Albanian family members and the mean streets, building habits good and bad. The virtue of those habits will depend on your take on modern mores. Bronson writes, for example, of “getting my dick pierced” down in the West Village, then grabbing a pizza and smoking weed. “I always smoke weed freely, always have and always will,” he writes. “I’ll just light a blunt anywhere.” Though he’s gone through the classic experiences of the latter-day stoner, flunking out and getting arrested numerous times, Bronson is a hard charger who’s not afraid to face nearly any challenge—especially, given his physique and genes, the necessity of losing weight: “If you’re husky, you’re always dieting in your mind,” he writes. Though vulgar and boastful, Bronson serves up a model that has plenty of good points, including his growing interest in nature, creativity, and the desire to “leave a legacy for everybody.”
The lessons to draw are obvious: Smoke more dope, eat less meat. Like-minded readers will dig it.Pub Date: April 20, 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4197-4478-5
Page Count: 184
Publisher: Abrams
Review Posted Online: May 5, 2021
Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 1, 2021
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