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The Bare Essentials Guide for Martial Arts Injury Prevention and Care

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This is the best written book of this type that I have read. She is able to make a very general topic focused and easy for parents and coaches to understand. The information is accurate without being overly technical and is easy to follow. The photographs will really help those people who have trouble visualizing the text. Any parent with children who participate in martial arts should read this book so that they can better communicate with health care providers and help to prevent some types of injuries.

I am a Taekwondo Instructor with 28 years in the martial arts and have a fairly extensive martial arts library. I find this to be a unique and incredibly valuable book to any responsible martial arts instructor. It covers everything from correct preventative measures to clear and precise taping instructions with illustrative photographs, to the correct treatment of injuries likely to occur in martial arts training. I recommend this book HIGHLY.

Master Mark J. Lesly
5th Dan, World Taekwondo Federation

Dr. Bare writes, not from theoretical, laboratory training, but from many years and thousands of hours of in-the-ring experience. Her matter-of-fact manual on preventing and curing martial arts injury is a must for any style of martial artist.--this from a 4th dan TKD instructor and nationally ranked referee.

Trish is the real deal. I was a nationally elite competitor for years and I'd always go over to Trish's table for whatever I needed. Her taping techniques are excellent for prevention of injuries. She's taken fighters with injuries (including myself) that would normally not allow them to stand and taped them to allow them to continue. Taping isn't all of it, though. There are so many kinds of injuries that occur and Trish has extensive experience. I haven't read this book, but I learned enough just by watching and using her techniques to extend my own fighting career for years. If I'd known earlier in my career to go to her table for the preventative stuff, I would still be competing.

Most useful are the stretching techniques. However most of the content is common sense to me, and supposedly every martial art practitioner. Unless you are a novice in this business, it is not gonna be that informative.

Would you buy this book if the title was "The bare essentials guide for taekwondo injuries?". That's exactly what is it. The advise is exclusively for injuries from taekwondo - predominately impact injuries from sparring. The author says absolutely nothing about any other martial art including the grappling arts of judo, jujutsu, submission wrestling and NHB. Thus there are an entire class of injuries that are not addressed by this book. Indeed, the chapter on taping techniques is limited to feet, ankles, hands and wrists, namely the joints most affected by point sparring. Moreover, the chapters on strength and conditioning and care of injuries are perfunctory and leave the reader wanting more detailed information...

Most of the book is useless. The only chapters that are helpful are the sections on taping. The stretches are exercises most athletes already know and use. The useful parts of the book could actually be put in a pamphlet.