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Fixing Your Feet: Injury Prevention and Treatments for Athletes
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About Fixing Your Feet: Injury Prevention And Treatments
Product Description 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 Tried-and-true methods of foot care from numerous experts, plus 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” Covers both individual foot care and team care “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 Review 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 U.S. 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 and medical consultant to adventure racing teams About the Author John Vonhof brings a varied background and extensive experience to “Fixing Your Feet.” This sixth edition is the synthesis of 34 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, fixingyourfeet .com, 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 experience in providing answers to foot-care questions, especially for multiday events. A runner since 1982, John discovered trail running and ultras in 1984. He has completed more than 20 ultras: 50Ks, 50-milers, 100-milers, 24-hour runs, and a 72-hour run. He ran the difficult Western States 100-mile Endurance Run three times and the Santa Rosa 24-Hour and 12-Hour Track Runs 12 times. In
