The highly successful Fixing Your Feet has been revised and updated to make it an even more complete source of information about proper foot care for the runner, hiker, adventure racer, or any athlete. Learn to be proactive in preventing foot problems through proper techniques, reactive with treatments when problems develop, and what supplies and resources are available. It includes the basics of selecting the right footwear, products and gear to prevent injury, ways to avoid and treat blisters, symptoms and treatments for problems from athlete's foot to serious sprains, and resources for equipment and supplies.

Fixing Your Feet: Prevention and Treatments for Athletes

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Vonhof, John

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Wilderness Press

Foot pain and injuries can thwart even the most experienced athletes. Foot expert John Vonhof discredits the conventional wisdom of "no pain, no gain," teaching instead how the interplay of anatomy, biomechanics, and footwear can lead to happy or hurting feet. With a focus on individual and team care, this fifth edition covers everything that an active person needs for immediate and long-term foot care solutions. Vonhof's advice comes not only from his own experience but also from many foot experts and endurance athletes. He offers numerous solutions for each problem, as there is no one best solution — different treatments work for different feet. This comprehensive resource covers footwear basics, prevention, and treatments along with clear diagrams, photos, and charts that demonstrate techniques and solutions. If it can happen to a foot, it's covered in this book.

Fixing Your Feet: Injury Prevention and Treatments for Athletes

Take Care of Your Feet!Your feet take a beating with every step. Don’t wait until foot pain inhibits your speed, strength, and style. Learn the basics and the finer points of foot care before pain becomes a problem. Foot expert and ultrarunner John Vonhof shares how the interplay of anatomy, biomechanics, and footwear can lead to happy―or hurting―feet. Fixing Your Feet covers all that you need to know to care for your feet, now and hundreds of miles down the road.
BOOK FEATURES
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<li>Tried-and-true methods of foot care from numerous experts, plus tips and anecdotes about recovery and training</li>
<li>Information about hundreds of foot-care products for nearly every foot ailment</li>
<li>High-interest topics such as “Barefoot &amp; Minimalist Footwear,” “Blister Prevention,” and “Providing Foot Care for Athletes”</li>
<li>Covers both individual foot care and team care</li>
</ul>
“From heels to toes, products to pathology, resources to rehabilitation, this book has it all. An essential guide.” ―Runner’s World
“After more than 25 years of treating feet and reading about treating feet, I’ve found nothing, absolutely nothing, as helpful as Fixing Your Feet. ―Buck Tilton, MS, cofounder of the Wilderness Medicine Institute of NOLS and author of many books on outdoor health and safety

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Exercise & Fitness

Foot pain and injuries can thwart even the most experienced athletes. Foot expert and ultra runner John Vonhof discredits the conventional wisdom of 'no pain, no gain,' teaching instead how the interplay of anatomy, biomechanics, and footwear can lead to happy or hurting feet. With a focus on individual and team care, the 6th edition of Fixing Your Feet covers all that any active person needs to know to find out what works now and also hundreds of miles down the road. This sixth edition has an important new chapter, Blister Prevention – A New Paradigm. It contains new information about blister formation and introduces the concept of shear, which in turn, changes the way we look at blister prevention and treatment. This comprehensive resources covers the full gamut of footwear basics, prevention, and treatments. If it can happen to a foot, it's covered in this book.

This book provides runners, hikers, adventure racers, triathletes—any athlete, with a complete source of information about proper foot care. Too often athletes spend vast amounts of money, time, and thought on training, equipment and travel, but little or no preparation on their feet. All factors in foot care are explored. You learn how to be proactive in order to prevent problems with your feet through proper prevention techniques, how to be reactive with treatments when problems develop, and what supplies and resources are available to help fix your feet

Fixing Your Feet: Prevention & Treatments for Athletes

Footwork Pubns

Pastoral search teams for congregations in all denominations will find a wealth of information and ideas in The Alban Institute’s new guide to the complex task of finding a new pastor. Every step is detailed: forming the search team, keeping the congregation informed, conducting a congregation self-study, communicating with candidates, developing selection criteria, conducting interviews, managing the call process, and arranging for a smooth transition. Sample letters, forms, and other tools are provided for use in major aspects of the search process.

The Alban Guide to Managing the Pastoral Search Process

Alban Institute, Inc.

Most churches have sought out a new pastor many times, yet search committees often feel as though they are inventing the process from scratch. In The Pastoral Search Journey, John Vonhof provides detailed guidance for search committees to ensure a good match between pastor and congregation. This is Vonhof's third book about the pastoral search -- but the first to discuss interim pastors, transitions between pastors, and the use of the Internet and digital media. Vonhof advises congregational leaders on establishing the search committee; ensuring the congregation is cared for during the pastoral vacancy; conducting the congregational self-study and creating an information packet; finding, communicating with, and interviewing candidates; determining selection criteria as well as evaluating and recommending candidates; managing call negotiations; and finally welcoming the congregation s new pastor. Sample letters, forms, and other tools are provided.

The Pastoral Search Journey: A Guide to Finding Your Next Pastor

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Product Description 
Get the book that covers what you need to know about foot care, including footwear, prevention, and treatment. 
Hiking, backpacking, running, walking, and other athletic endeavors, your feet take a beating with every step. Don’t wait until foot pain inhibits your speed, strength, and style. Learn the basics―along with the finer points―of foot care before pain becomes a problem. Foot expert and ultrarunner John Vonhof and physical therapist Tonya Olson share how the interplay of anatomy, biomechanics, and footwear can lead to happy (or hurting!) feet. Fixing Your Feet covers all that you need to know to care for your feet, right now and hundreds of miles down the road! 
Inside You’ll Find \nTried-and-true methods of foot care from numerous experts 
Tips and anecdotes about recovery and training 
Information about hundreds of foot-care products for nearly every foot ailment 
High-interest topics such as “Barefoot & Minimalist Footwear,” “Blister Prevention,” and “Providing Foot Care for Athletes” 
Discussions of individual foot care and team care\n“From heels to toes, products to pathology, resources to rehabilitation, this book has it all. An essential guide.”―Runner’s World 
 Review 
“From heels to toes, products to pathology, resources to rehabilitation, this book has it all. An essential guide.” —Runner’s World 
“After more than 25 years of treating feet and reading about treating feet, I’ve found nothing, absolutely nothing, as helpful as Fixing Your Feet.” —Buck Tilton, MS, cofounder of the Wilderness Medicine Institute of NOLS 
“As a veteran of more than 80 marathons, as well as ultramarathons up to 100 miles, and being a podiatrist for 18 years, I thought I knew it all. John’s comprehensive approach of asking the so-called medical experts, as well as the real experts out in the trenches, for their tried-and-true advice will bring you more value for your endurance event than a podiatry degree ever will.” —Bill Johncock, DPM; Fellow, American Academy of Sports Medicine; Board Certified, American Board of Pediatric Surgery 
“Just about everything I have learned and passed on about working on endurance athletes’ and soldiers’ feet I have learned from watching John completely and patiently repair blistered feet that I would have considered candidates for amputation.” —Anthony C. “Woofie” Humpage, CSCS, FMS, USA Triathlon Certified Coach, Badwater Ultramarathon medical team, Developer of SELECTED! (a program for US Army Special Forces) 
“This is it: the best book ever written on foot care. Everyone who has been bothered by foot problems or wants to prevent them should own this book.” —Bill Trolan, MD, author of the Blister Fighter Guide, medical consultant to adventure racing teams 
“I frequently recommend the book: Fixing Your Feet.” —Dr. Jeffrey Armstrong, podiatric surgeon, in House Calls Magazine 
 About the Author 
John Vonhof brings a varied background and extensive experience to Fixing Your Feet. It is the synthesis of more than 35 years of experience as a runner, hiker, and medical professional, and a never-ending quest to learn more about foot care to help athletes in extreme events. His popular website is dedicated to providing articles, resources, links, and a blog about foot care, and it serves to inform and educate athletes about all that’s new in foot care and to provide foot-care advice. Other medical professionals recognize John’s expertise too. In 2009, he was the lead author of a chapter on foot injuries in the textbook Expedition and Wilderness Medicine (Cambridge University Press). Over the years, John has provided volunteer medical aid at numerous sporting events around the world, patching feet, training medical staff and interested athletes, and providing advice to thousands of athletes. His expertise has taken him to Chile, Costa Rica, Brazil, British Columbia, Canada, and many states to help on medical teams. He continues to be sought out for his expertise and exp

Fixing Your Feet: Injury Prevention and Treatment for Athletes

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Fixing Your Feet: Prevention and Treatments for Athletes

Fixing Your Feet: Prevention and Treatments for Athletes

Fixing Your Feet: Injury Prevention and Treatments for Athletes

Fixing Your Feet: Injury Prevention and Treatments for Athletes

Fixing Your Feet: Prevention & Treatments for Athletes

The Alban Guide to Managing the Pastoral Search Process

The Pastoral Search Journey: A Guide to Finding Your Next Pastor

Fixing Your Feet: Injury Prevention and Treatment for Athletes