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Wear and Tear: Stop the Pain and Put the Spring Back in Your Body | 
 enlarge | Author: Dr. Bob Arnot
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 352368
Media: Paperback
Pages: 288
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0743225562
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.7223
EAN: 9780743225564
ASIN: 0743225562
Publication Date: December 30, 2003
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Product Description
Feeling old and creaky? Everyday wear and tear can erode your joints and stiffen your ligaments and tendons, and can even lead to arthritis. Bestselling authorDr. Bob Arnot designed a revolutionary program to overcome his own advanced case of wear and tear, and his findings can help you get on the move too. His exciting new blueprint will dramatically improve your strength and vigor, help you become more supple and limber, and put the spring back into your step. Whether you are sixty years old or twenty, this book can help you beat wear and tear. Based on the latest scientific research and decades of Dr. Arnot's own experience, Wear and Tear includes easy-to-follow guidelines to help you select the right shoes, incorporate highly effective new supplements into your diet, and kill the pain associated with sore joints and even moderate arthritis. For the more athletic, Dr. Arnot provides a regimen of nutrition, diet, and exercise to reverse joint damage. You'll even find customized yoga poses and a chapter on joint-friendly sports. Dr. Bob Arnot will show you how to slow, stop, or even reverse the effects of wear and tear.
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 It helped me with a very long-going problem July 7, 2008
E. Haas (Texas,USA)
I happened to pick up this book at my in-laws' house because I have had a year-and-a-half-long problem with plantar faciitis and heal pain. My podiatrist calls me a difficult case. I have tried physical therapy, cushioned insoles, cortizone shots, icing, night splints and oral meds- they have not improved my problems. After reading the book (I pretty much got the information I needed in 2 evenings of reading) I took a walk around the block-something I had not done painlessly in months. Using one small and simple change suggested in his book, my pain was practically eliminated! No matter who wrote the information first, I want to thank Dr. Arnot for writing his book because it has instantly changed my life. I have cancelled my upcoming appointment with my podiatrist to give his other suggestions a try. My money may be better spent this way. I recommend others give his book a try as well, even if you aren't suffering from arthritis...yet. It is good information for your entire family.
Also known as "Turning Back The Clock II: The Retraction" November 23, 2006
Lemon Magic (Omaha, NE USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have to disagree with the anonymous reader who accused the book of being a commercial for glucosamine. (An endorsement is not the same thing as a commercial). I believe that the information in "Wear And Tear" will be of genuine help to people willing to try the ideas presented here.
Actually it seems to me that the proper title of this book should be "Turning Back The Clock II: Undoing the Damage from The First Book". In "Wear And Tear", Arnot talks extensively about the wear and tear on the body caused by high volume endurance exercise - which is almost exactly his prescription for health and longevity in "Turning Back The Clock". His candid descriptions of his own joint and health problems are obviously a direct result of all the running, biking and cross country exteme events he did in the previous book - although he never actually admits the connection. If you are paying attention, this tends to damage his credibility as an expert - he was 100% sure about his methods in his last book, but now he's hurting and achy, so now he's 100% sure about his new methods. Indian yoga masters and Chinese Tai Chi masters and Pilates instructors and even physical therapists around the country would laugh at him until their sides hurt.
Even so, as a long time beliver in the pre-hab/rehab power of a well designed hatha yoga practice, I was impressed that Arnot advocated a very well known "hot" yoga system (Bikram Yoga) as part of a daily restoration routine. I also appreciated his explaining both the "how" and the "why" of each of his modes of self help, and that he made practical, easily implemented suggestions for each method; and other helpful exercises (besides yoga), stress reduction methods and nutritional supplements (including dosages, and specific brand names).
I learned a few good things from this book, and I already know more about the subject than 90% of the mainstream American audience. So you may not NEED this book...but it will be a worthwhile entry in your health and fitness library if you decide to buy it.
Good content, let's not debate the source... September 7, 2005
Celtic Engineer (Cincinnati, OH USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I haven't read "the arthritis cure" so can't comment on the other reviewer's "rehash" perception. The presentation looks highly suspicious, I bought it on the small chance it would actually help my knee pain....then I was surprised to find that some of his stuff actually works. Immediately. Wow, my joints honestly did feel "like silk" after one of his yoga sessions.
 Ho Hum rehash of previous written material February 10, 2004
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
Bob Arnot is a friendly an interesting newsperson but not a great writer. Provides nothing new from the original, gold-standard book "The Arthritis Cure." Basically, this book is a thinly veiled attempt to sell a second-rate glucosamine product, Move Free. This is made by Schiff, the Weider company associated with all of those silly body-building magazines, potions and pills. Schiff's website gives us the clue to this association. Move Free has an unproven mixture of glucosamine forms.
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