Heal Your Hips: How to Prevent Hip Surgery -- and What to Do If You Need It

The first comprehensive guide to hip health Avoid injury, prevent deterioration, work out in water and on land, and understand the entire range of surgical options Once considered a natural consequence of aging, hip disorders can be reduced or eliminated altogether by innovative exercise regimens. Heal Your Hips explores an unprecedented range of preventive options you can take today to avoid hip injury and improve your hip health--including wonderful water and land exercises and intensive stretching. Numerous illustrations help you understand the structure and function of your hips, and dozens of photographs clearly demonstrate how to do the exercises. If indeed hip surgery is in your future, Heal Your Hips provides vital new information on several little-known, minimally invasive forms of surgery as well as straightforward coverage of traditional ""replacement"" surgery. You'll learn what to expect with hip surgery--from preparing for the procedure to the day of the operation to returning home and recovering with physical therapy. The practical and long-overdue guidance in Heal Your Hips will be a revelation for the millions enduring the pain of hip deterioration and injury. Whether you or your loved ones are considering hip surgery or have yet to seek medical help, turn first to the indispensable expertise in this optimistic and accessible resource.

Huey, Lynda

Klapper M.D., Robert

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Heal Your Hips, Second Edition: How to Prevent Hip Surgery and What to Do If You Need It

The best-selling guide to hip health is now new and improved.
When Heal Your Hips was first published in 1999, its practical and long-overdue guidance was a revelation for the millions enduring the pain of hip deterioration and injury. This updated edition of Heal Your Hips includes even more groundbreaking content. Fundamental concepts from the original are still included, such as innovative preventative and rehabilitative measures and step-by-step exercises with instructional images. The up-to-date version now includes many breakthroughs in the orthopedic field including the author’s own KlapperVision®―using common household objects to explain intricate anatomical structures in a way accessible to anyone. The result is the same: Heal Your Hips is still the only comprehensive hip health guide you will ever need.

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