Written by health columnist and exercise authority Gary Yanker, with the assistance of various medical experts, Exercise Rx: The Lifetime Prescription For Reducing Medical Risks And Sports Injuries is a solid guide for the non-specialist general reader to improving one's health and fitness in the long term. Exercise Rx is solidly packed from cover to cover with a wealth of practical, applicable information, such as how to develop long-term muscular fitness and ward off osteoporosis; self-diagnostic tests to gauge personal risk factors for injury or disease; and especially, how to best tailor an exercise regimen to ward against specific bodily maladies from arthritis, to diabetes, to high blood pressure. Exercise Rx is a superb physical fitness reference and highly recommended for personal, professional, and community library "Health & Fitness" reference collections.

This book is an excellent resource for those of us who have experienced some sort of medical or physical condition at some point. Yanker provides helpful exercises, of various degrees, for just about any condition you could possibly think of. Whether it be mental, physiological, physical, you name the condition, there's an "exercise" for it. Also included in the book are various charts and diagrams useful for "your" specific fitness goals.