The Knee Crisis Handbook Understanding Pain, Preventing Trauma, Recovering from Injury, and Building Healthy Knees for Life

They happen to skiers. They happen to cyclists. They happen to basketball players and joggers and football players. They even happen to people out for a simple walk. They are knee injuries, and in 2003, Americans will suffer more than 8 million tears, fractures, and sprains. Many of those patients will eventually develop chronic problems, joining the 30 million Americans whose knees hurt for the duration of their life. Written by leading sports medicine doctor Brian Halpern, The Knee Crisis Handbook will prove especially essential to athletes, who will appreciate sections on individual sports and the knee risks associated with each. But anyone can benefit from The Knee Crisis Handbook's, chapters on preventing injury,maximizing workout results while protecting the knees, and treating a recent break or tear, even without surgery. Co-authored by leading arthroscopic surgeon Dr. David Altchek, and strength-training expert Marty Jaramillo, The Knee Crisis Handbook is the last word on knee injury.

Dr. Brian Halpern is a board-certified sports medicine physician at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. He is a former associate team physician for the New York Mets and the nation's first nonsurgical sports medicine fellowship-trained physician.

Laura Tucker is the coauthor of several health and medical books. She lives with her husband and daughter in Brooklyn, New York.