This comprehensive textbook of general surgery presents a problem-oriented approach to teaching surgery, emphasizing throughout signs and patient management skills. Favouring a patient-centered approach, the first volume covers concepts and processes in surgery, management of the injured, special areas, clinical practice, surgery in regard to various body parts.

Textbook of Surgery: v. 1

Medical Books

Frederick, Christopher

Medicine

Saunders (W.B.) Co Ltd

Leave the old static stretches, muscle tightness, and movement restrictions behind. Stretch to Win presents a complete flexibility training system—a proven winner for today's athlete. This is the new way to both loosen up and perform your best.
Learn the dynamic exercise techniques that most closely represent the movements and loads that will be required of your body on the court, field, course, track, or mat or in the water. After you complete a simple self-evaluation, a special science-based stretching matrix enables you to tailor a program specifically for your body, your sport, your position, or your event.
Authors Ann and Chris Frederick have trained many elite and aspiring athletes to achieve optimal muscle and joint function. Now you can stretch to win and enjoy the same results champions in all sports have achieved through this modern, customized flexibility training program.

Stretch to Win

Frederick, Ann

Sports & Outdoors

Human Kinetics

Stretch to win! Flexibility for Sports Performance provides all the tools to build a program for your needs, your sport, and your goals. Through a series of self-assessments, you will identify areas of improvement and establish a baseline for your flexibility regimen. Then, discover the best science-based exercise techniques to avoid injury and optimize muscle function on the court, field, course, track, mat, or in the water. Static, dynamic, and functional stretches may also be customized to your sport's seasonal workout schedule and to your position demands. Best of all, these programs and workouts can be printed from the DVD, so you can take instruction directly onto the practice field or into the gym. Designed by Ann Frederick and Chris Frederick, who have worked with numerous elite athletes, the Flexibility for Sports Performance DVD will help increase flexibility, agility, and balance for better performance during competition. Human Kinetics DVDs are coded for universal playback and can be played in all regions of the world.

Flexibility For Sports Performance (Sports Conditioning S)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Exercise & Fitness

Are you looking for the key to optimal performance? Increased speed, power, and agility? What you need is a complete flexibility training system—one designed for today’s athlete and made up of dynamic stretches that mirror sport-specific movement. And you should also have the skills to assess exactly what your body needs at any time. That complete program is found in Stretch to Win. 
 In its first edition, Stretch to Win raised the bar for flexibility training. The first edition quickly became a best-selling stretching resource for consumers and professionals alike. From amateur to professional athletes, weekend warriors to Olympians, the benefits were clear: increased mobility, improved range of motion, faster recovery, and more. Now it’s time to raise the bar further. 
 This is Stretch to Win, Second Edition. Inside, Ann and Chris Frederick build on their system with the latest research, specific ways to assess yourself, and more stretching options. New illustrations of the body’s fascia will help you assess and identify your imbalances. Then the text will guide you to eliminate these imbalances with corrective stretch movements that quickly improve mobility. 
 You’ll learn the most effective techniques for your sport, your position, or your event; then you’ll put these techniques into action. 
 Using the new Stretch to Win fascia mobility assessment (FMA) protocol, you’ll determine range of motion deficits and identify your performance inhibitors. Then, with the stretching matrix, you’ll personalize a program developed for your needs and your goals. You can incorporate the matrix into your existing workout as well as into rest days, when stretching can aid in recovery and bring your body back in balance. 
 It’s all here—all the tools, all the stretches, and all the instruction to create an effective flexibility program for any sport or activity. If it’s time to increase mobility, power, speed, agility, range of motion, and overall performance, it’s time for Stretch to Win!

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Textbook of Surgery: v. 1

Stretch to Win

Flexibility For Sports Performance (Sports Conditioning S)

Stretch to Win