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The American Physical Therapy Association Book of Body Maintenance and Repair

If the authors strived to respect the intelligence of its readers, then this book will probably have easily won five stars. This book presents extensive tips and exercises to do more than its title indicates, even though the book mainly emphasizes body maintenance and repair. The authors’ short-winded style of sloppiness and poor research are the only major flaw with the book presentation.

The clear goals of the book in systematic and scientific manner, demonstrates The Table of Contents. “The Back” which is in Chapter One also stresses that clear goal, by making the spine the center of attention of any physical rehabilitation and maintenance. The troubles starts from Chapter 2 and so on.

1. You will find there is sloppy redundancy of “copy and paste” of paragraphs in the first nine chapters. You will read the same paragraphs on “arthritis”, “muscle tightness”, “osteoarthritis”, “rheumatoid arthritis”, “spasm” , “trigger points” “rest” and so on. It will be read so many times as if you are reading the same chapter nine times in the same book. The endings of these chapters even end the same with the word “mechanics”.

2. Some of the drawings are poorly labeled and poorly representative, even though the book graphics are scientific and serve the purpose of simplification and clarification. For example, the drawings of the hip anatomy in chapter 7 do not show the hip abductors. Most of the drawings of gait and posture do not demonstrate the real dynamics of human body of spinal, pelvic, or scapular contours during motion. They are drawn by artists’ inexperience in human anatomy.

3. Some of them are unnecessarily abbreviated in most chapters 10 to 17 because they are informative and concise. “Body Weight” in Chapter 13 for example is merely two misunderstand physical performance. The authors might skip the attention of non-lifters to attempt to explain the proper way of lifting in a flawed manner. They advise bending the knees and elbows while lifting from the floor, for example. They explain that they would prevent elbow overextension and back stress. Showing a man squatting on his toes with elevated stress are shown in the drawing in that chapter. Advancing one foot ahead of the other during squatting are also advised. The described process of lifting is flawed because of the following:

(i) Unless, you have trained them, you should not bend your knees while lifting .During lifting and cause accidents could easily buckle untrained knees.

(ii)the gravity pulls downward with the shoulders positioned over the elbows so lifting with straight elbows does not over-extend them. When the shoulders and elbows are on the same horizontal level, like in lying-down chest flyes, that’s when overextension only happens.

(iii)asymmetric spinal stress is created by advancing one foot ahead. Guaranteed symmetric spinal loading is by lifting on evenly positioned feet.

(iv)the chest thrusting and spinal arching are the most important tips in the technique of proper lifting. Like the “stiff-legged deadlift”, these could obviate knee bending.

4. In Chapters 18 and 19, the exercise show the depth of academic understanding of human anatomy. The exercise is diverse, plenty and presented with scientific drawings that emphasize the main purpose of each exercise. The poor practical knowledge of the authors about real exercise are is mainly the flaw. This is clear in the so many drawings that shows people sitting and lifting weights. Biceps curls, neck exercise, shoulder shrugs, jaw opening and many others are performed while seated. While standing in order to enhance overall physical balance and fitness, too many sitting exercises should have been done. Unless the person is highly trained to maintain lower back lordosis during loading unless lifting weights while seated is dangerous.

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