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New Book for Top Tennis Performance

From Breakpoint to Advantage: A Practical Guide to Optimal Tennis Health and Performance is a new book by Babette Pluim and Marc Safran that was written to help players reach optimal, injury-free performance, including preventing overuse injuries. Pluim, a sports physician and medical director of the Royal Netherlands Lawn Tennis Association, is the editor of the newsletter Medicine and Science in Tennis and a contributor to the IOC Handbook of Sports Medicine and Science: Tennis. Safran is an orthopedic surgeon in San Francisco specializing in sports medicine and biomechanics.

Topics in the book, which is published by Racquet Tech Publishing, include: injury prevention and rehabilitation; descriptions, symptoms, and treatments for all tennis injuries and ailments; stroke mechanics and injury; training programs for flexibility, balance, stabilization, and strength; proper nutrition for tennis players; equipment selection for health and performance; and more.

To order the book, which retails for $29.95, contact the USRSA at 760-536-1177, e-mail usrsa@usrsa.com, or order through our on-line store.