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Aging & illness and injury

Below are the best resources we could find on Aging and illness and injury.

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Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life

Reminiscent of Oliver Sacks, noted Harvard-trained geriatrician Louise Aronson uses stories from her quarter century of caring for patients, and draws from history, science, literature, popular culture, and her own life to weave a vision of old age that’s neither nightmare nor utopian fantasy—a...

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Sports Injuries and the Aging Athlete with Dr. Brian Mather, Dave Erickson

Dr. Brian Mather and Dave Erickson discuss different injuries suffered by athletes over the course of their careers.

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Why Things Hurt: Life Lessons from an Injury-Prone Physical Therapist

Why Things Hurt is a collection of true stories and meaningful explanations about how our bodies work and the journeys we travel to maintain them. It provides accessible answers and structured principles on topics such as posture, pain, pregnancy, exercise, footwear and sports.

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Death as a Part of Life

His Holiness the Dalai Lama speaks to students from Denmark on how living a meaningful life leads to no regrets at the time of death during their meeting at his residence in Dharamshala, HP, India on April 2, 2018.

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Play On: The New Science of Elite Performance at Any Age

Season after season, today’s sports superstars seem to defy the limits of physical aging that inevitably sideline their competitors.

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Healing and the Reality of Death

We view our desire to get rid of disease as a desire to live. But it is often just the opposite: it is an attempt to avoid life. Illness is not so special—nor so terrible. It is a question of acknowledging that we are born alone and that we die alone, but that it is still okay.

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Lung Cancer Survivor Shares Advice for Athletic Training after Cancer

After receiving his lung cancer diagnosis in 2009, Tom Barber underwent a video-assisted thoracotomy and clinical trial as part of his lung cancer treatment at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

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Who Am I After Sports?: An Athlete’s Roadmap to Discover New Purpose and Live Fulfilled

Many athletes grow up wanting to be a star—Michael Jordan, Mia Hamm, Michael Phelps, Cheryl Miller, Hussain Bolt, or Lionel Messi. As they journey through sports, their athletic identity strengthens. They get used to the attention, influence, and confidence that comes from being an athlete.

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Types of Physical Therapy Specialities

There are many specialty areas in the field of physical therapy. Although this is well known throughout the profession, it is often overlooked by the general public.

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The Big Book of Health and Fitness: A Practical Guide to Diet, Exercise, Healthy Aging, Illness Prevention, and Sexual Well-Being

For more than three decades, Dr. Maffetone has been treating and advising patients, coaching athletes, lecturing worldwide, and writing books about the importance of self-health care.

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