Wear and Tear : Stop the Pain and Put the Spring Back in Your Body

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Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-12-24
Publisher(s): SIMON & SCHUSTER INC
List Price: $25.00

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Summary

Wear and tear erodes your joints and stiffens your ligaments and tendons. It's the main reason many of us feel old and creaky. Bestselling author Dr. Bob Arnot designed a revolutionary program to overcome his own advanced case of wear and tear, one that had led to arthritis. His exciting new blueprint dramatically improves strength and vigor, helps you become more supple and limber, and puts the spring back into your step. Whether you are sixty years old or twenty, this book can help you beat wear and tear. Based on the latest scientific research and decades of his own experience, Dr. Bob Arnot's easy-to-implement plan provides the steps to repair damaged joints, muscles, and ligaments and eliminate the pain associated with infirmity and injury. Wear and Tear includes easy-to-follow guidelines to help you select the right shoes, incorporate highly effective new supplements into your diet, and kill the pain associated with sore joints and even moderate arthritis. For the more athletic, Dr. Arnot provides a regimen of nutrition, diet, and exercise to reverse the damage to joints and overcome stiff man syndrome. You'll even find customized yoga poses and a chapter on joint-friendly sports. Dr. Bob Arnot will show you how to slow, stop, or even reverse the effects of wear and tear.

Author Biography

Dr. Bob Arnot is one of the most recognized names in the medical and health professions. Formerly medical correspondent for the CBS Evening News and chief medical correspondent for Today and Dateline, Dr. Arnot now reports worldwide from the front lines of the war against terror as special foreign correspondent for MSNBC. A bestselling author, Dr. Arnot has published eight books: Sports Selection, The Best Medicine, Dr Bob Arnot's Guide to Turning Back the Clock, Dr Bob Arnot's Revolutionary Weight Control Program, The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet, The Biology of Success, The Prostate Cancer Protection Plan, and The Breast Health Cookbook.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Wear and Tear xi
The Road Map xvii
PART ONE Problems: What Causes Wear and Tear 1(68)
Heel Pounders
3(11)
Stiff Man Syndrome
14(12)
Fatal Flaws
26(26)
The Weak Link
52(13)
Overload
65(4)
PART TWO Solutions: Beating Wear and Tear 69(148)
Kill the Pain
71(20)
Protect Your Joints
91(18)
Fix the Flaws
109(19)
Restore Your Joints
128(33)
Build Protective Strength
161(15)
Put Back the Spring
176(8)
Lighten the Load
184(9)
Play Joint-Friendly Sports
193(22)
Conclusion
215(2)
Appendix: Joint Nutrition 217(9)
Glossary 226(6)
Selected Biographies 232(12)
Bibliography 244(7)
Index 251

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