Living With Sports Injuries (Teen's Guides) - Softcover

Clifford D. Stark, D.O., is medical director of sports medicine at Chelsea Piers as well as assistant director of orthopedics and sports medicine and assistant professor at Columbia University/New York-Presbyterian Family Medicine. He earned his D.O. at the University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine in Kansas City, Missouri, followed by an internship at the Medical College of Virginia. Stark was awarded the Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship at Crozer-Keystone Health System in 2000-2001. He is board-certified by the American Academy of Family Physicians and holds a certificate of added qualifications in sports medicine. He has extensive sports medicine experience with high school and college athletes in football, wrestling, soccer, baseball, hockey, basketball, martial arts, running, and gymnastics.
Elizabeth Shimer Bowers writes about health for books, magazines, and Web sites. She was the lead author on Natural Hormone Solutions and Natural Calm, and has done writing and research for more than 25 other health books, including Prevention's Maximum Immunity; Reader's Digest 1,801 Home Remedies; The Women Doctors' Guide to Health and Healing; and Get Well, Stay Well. Her articles have been published in Prevention, Runner's World, and Philadelphia, among other periodicals. Bowers is a copywriter and copyeditor for the National Women's Health Resource Center. She lives in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania.

The Teen’s Guides series is devoted to providing manageable information on a variety of diseases and social issues that affect teenagers. In all the books, each chapter begins with a scenario, followed by information and advice, and sidebars throughout answer specific questions on the topic. The final chapter of each book offers practical suggestions and advice. Back matter includes a list of relevant organizations, a comprehensive glossary and index, and plenty of additional books and online resources. The quality of the individual books varies. In Living with Sports Injuries, Stark and Bowers try to cover so much varied information that the book at times reads like an annotated list of injuries. Still, the series’ friendly, easy-to-read approach serves an important function, and these books will help teens, parents, teachers, and others with teen-related health questions find reliable, accessible information. Grades 9-12. --Miriam Aronin