Essential advice for young athletes, coaches, and parents on staying healthy and avoiding sports injuries.
Over the course of the past two decades, sports injuries among children, teenagers, and young adults have increased at an alarming rate. In SURVIVING A SEASON, sports medicine specialist Dr. Michael DeFranco explains the important issues surrounding these injuries. This invaluable resource is a basic guide for young athletes, parents, and coaches on how to stay healthy and enjoy sports without getting hurt.
Dr. DeFranco received his training in orthopaedic surgery at The Cleveland Clinic, Rush University Medical Center, and Massachusetts General Hospital. Numerous peer-reviewed publications and the national Protect Your Bones program reflect his dedication to teaching young people about good musculoskeletal health. SURVIVING A SEASON is based his experience providing care to high school, college, and professional athletes. He currently practices in New York City.
Professional Reviews
Surviving a Season: Essential Advice for Young Athletes, Coaches, and Parents on Staying Healthy and Avoiding Sports Injuries
I enjoyed reading the book “Surviving a Season.” It was well written, an easy read, and very pertinent and educational to any athlete in any sport. The simplified line items and illustrations will help anyone understand the basic anatomy and injuries that occur to these tissues. There is a lot of useful information regarding injury prevention as well as general health and wellness.
- Joseph P. Iannotti, M.D. Ph.D.
Cleveland Clinic
Maynard Madden Professor and Chairman
Orthopaedic and Rheumatologic Institute
Surviving a Season: Essential Advice for Young Athletes, Coaches, and Parents on Staying Healthy and Avoiding Sports Injuries
The subtitle of Surviving a Season states that the book contains essential advice for young athletes, coaches, and parents. Essential is a strong word, one not to be casually tossed around, and it is entirely appropriate here.
In 90 pages of plain English, diagrams and charts, Dr. DeFranco gives you the basics of bones and muscles and the vocabulary of injuries. Sound formidable? Not at all. Everything is described so matter-of-factly and reinforced with such simple drawings that the reader is immediately drawn into the "conversation" with the author. All doctors should be so accessible!
And, as we all know but seldom bother to explore until it's our kid with the torn meniscus, the problem of sports injuries has become more and more common, especially among children. There is not much you can do about acute injuries--these, Dr. DeFranco notes, are the reality of sports--but there are "steps every athlete, parent and coach can take to avoid many of the overuse injuries."
This is, in deed, an "essential" book if athletics and especially young athletes are part of your life.
---BookReview.com
Surviving a Season: Essential Advice for Young Athletes, Coaches, and Parents on Staying Healthy and Avoiding Sports Injuries
Dr. DeFranco is a recognized sports medicine specialist with U.S. and European training in orthopaedic surgery and musculoskeletal health. With sports injuries soaring among young athletes, he provides vital advice about the best ways to protect bones, enjoy athletic activity, and sustain bone health.
The book provides must have knowledge to help protect athletes from career-ending injuries and lifelong disability. Dr. DeFranco’s advice clearly illuminates the sports injury problem. He instructs with understandable explanations, illustrations, training strategies, exercise schedules, and diet recommendations.
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