The "art" of exercise selection has expanded, in recent years, beyond being based merely on personal choices and the cultural influences of the aesthetic value of exercise. Lower-Body Functional Training examines why it's important to have a sense of purpose for exercise selection and how functional exercises cross over to enhance the activities of daily living. The video features a progressive functional continuum for exercising the lower body. The...

Clinical Evaluation of Static and Dynamic Malalignments: Techniques for Assessment Interventions provides an overview of lower-extremity injury epidemiology. The DVD looks at faulty static alignment and dynamic movement patterns of the lower extremity that are commonly thought to contribute to acute and chronic injury. The DVD also details efficient techniques that can be utilized to assess the intervene on supposed contributors to lower-extremity...

"Around 370 million years ago, a distant relative of a modern lungfish began a most extraordinary adventure -- emerging from the water and laying claim to the land. Over the next 70 million years, this tentative beachhead had developed into a worldwide colonization by ever-increasing varieties of four-limbed creatures known as tetrapods, the ancestors of all vertebrate life on land. This new edition of Jennifer A. Clack's groundbreaking book tells...

In order to ensure that every injured athlete receives the best athletic care possible, including the correct diagnosis and optimal treatment, a good foundation is essential. In that regard, the requisite foundation for athletic care entails a concise, systematic but comprehensive neurological musculoskeletal examination. As one volume in a four-part series that details the steps involved in conducting a sound musculoskeletal evaluation of an injured...

Preventing and Managing Common Running Injuries presents a comprehensive review of the factors that runners of all ages and experience levels should consider to help them avoid suffering common running overuse injuries. In an easy-to-understand, straightforward manner, the DVD explains the running injury cycle and what individuals should do should they be injured.

"In this poetic, introspective memoir, Kenny Fries illustrates his intersecting identities as gay, Jewish, and disabled. While learning about the history of his body through medical records and his physical scars, Fries discovers just how deeply the memories and psychic scars run. As he reflects on his relationships with his family, his compassionate doctor, the brother who resented his disability, and the men who taught him to love, he confronts...