Table of Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Editors and Illustrator
Contributing Authors
Foreword by Michael William Krzyzewski
Foreword by James Rheuben Andrews, MD
Foreword by Bryan Talmadge Kelly, MD
Introduction
Section One The Way We Were*
*from the romantic comedy starring Barbra Streisand and Robert
Redford
- Chapter 1 What’s the Core? It Seems Kind of Important
- Chapter 2 New Eyes—Medicine’s Inability to See the Core
- Chapter 3 The Eureka Moment for the Core
- Chapter 4 The Difficulty Abandoning Old Eyes—“Unseeing”
Section Two New Universe*
from the book imprint for Marvel Comics
- Chapter 5 Presenting…the Core!
- Chapter 6 Some Concepts to Keep in Mind
- Chapter 7 The Pubic Bone
- Chapter 8 The “Harness”
- Chapter 9 The Rectus Abdominis—Our “Cinderella Muscle”
- Chapter 10 The Adductors—Demystifying Them
- Chapter 11 The Rectus Femoris—The “Rodney Dangerfield
Muscle”
- Chapter 12 The Iliopsoas—aka the Psoas—aka the “Eminem
Muscle”
- Chapter 13 The Glutes—The “New Beauty Muscles”
- Chapter 14 The Other Muscles—Hip and Core Stability
- Atlas Stargazing—Seeing the Constellation of Core
Diagnoses
- Chapter 15 So, You Want to Become a Doctor? Part One—Diagnostic
Ambushes
- Chapter 16 Fifteen Core Principles
- Chapter 17 So, You Want to Become a Doctor? Part Two—History,
Physical Examination, Imaging, and Other Tests
- Chapter 18 Nerves in the Core—A “Fifth Dimension”
Enrique Aradillas, MD
- Chapter 19 The Universe of Diagnoses
- Chapter 20 How the Core Universe Forms
- Chapter 21 Optimizing and Fixing the Core Muscles
Section Three Hip Hop Movement*
*from the subculture that formed in the early 1970s in the South
Bronx
- Chapter 22 The Hip—How Far We Have Come!
J. W. Thomas Byrd, MD
- Chapter 23 Private Eyes on the Hip—Sometimes a Culprit in
Pelvic Pain and Pelvic Floor Disorders
Struan H. Coleman, MD, PhD
- Chapter 24 Traps in Hip Arthroscopy
John P. Salvo Jr, MD and Kevin O’Donnell, MD
- Chapter 25 Special Considerations in Adolescents
Fares S. Haddad, MD (Res), FRCS (Orth), Dip Sports Med, FFSEM;
Feras Ya’ish, FRCS (Orth), MBBS; and Konstantinos Tsitskaris, MSc,
MRCS, FRCS (Tr & Orth)
- Chapter 26 Hip Arthroscopy—Frontiers and Limitations
Anil S. Ranawat, MD; Brian J. Rebolledo, MD; and Jacqueline M.
Brady, MD
- Chapter 27 Complex Core-Hip Considerations in the Athlete— From
“Lighting the Lamp” to “Getting Your Face Washed”
Marc J. Philippon, MD; William R. Mook, MD; and Karen K. Briggs,
MPH
- Chapter 28 Biomechanics
- (A) Tilt and Version
Eric J. Kropf, MD; Struan H. Coleman, MD, PhD; and Alexander E.
Poor, MD
- (B) Altered Hip Biomechanics and the Muscles
Marc R. Safran, MD and Joshua Sampson, MD
- Chapter 29 What Lies Behind the Hip—The Deep DerriÈre
Hal David Martin, DO
Section Four Shared Responsibility*
*from both Democratic and Republican Presidential platforms
- Chapter 30 Fixing Everything—Putting the Core Universe Into
Perspective
- Chapter 31 Managing the Ruptured Proximal Hamstring
Christopher C. Dodson, MD and Daniel P. Woods, MD
- Chapter 32 Rehabilitation and Performance—From Snake Oil
Salespeople to Well-Oiled Machines
Alexander E. Poor, MD; Jim McCrossin, MS, ATC, CSCS, PES, CES,
CKTP; and Alex McKechnie, PT, MCSP
- Chapter 33 The Final Stage of Rehab—Getting All the Way
Back
Andrew Small, PT, CSCS, RSCC*D, MPhtySt, BSc (HMS-ExSci)
- Chapter 34 Don’t Forget the Thorax
Tracey Vincel, PT, MPhty, CBBA and Andrew Barr, DPT, MSc Spt Sci,
BSc (Hons) Physio, CSCS
- Chapter 35 The Yin and Yang of Yoga
Biz Magarity, MBA, C-IAYT, 500 E-RYT
- Chapter 36 Perspectives of Nonoperative Sports Medicine
Physicians
- (A) Nonoperative Interventions for the Management of “Hip”
Pain
Eugene Hong, MD, CAQSM, FAAFP and Sarah C. Hoffman, DO, FAAP,
CAQSM
- (B) We Need More Studies
David Stone, MD
- Chapter 37 An Osteopath’s View of the Core
Universe—Manipulative Therapies—A Functional Approach
Jason Hartman, DO; Philip J. Koehler III, DO, MS; and Veronica
Williams, DO, Illustrator
- Chapter 38 A Chiropractor’s Perspective—The Knee Bone’s
Connected to the Thigh Bone
Marc Legere, DC, BS, BA
Section Five Life Is a Journey*
*from “Life is a journey and not a destination,” attributed to
Transcendentalist poet Ralph Waldo Emerson and revisited by AM
O’Shea, a very smart CEO
- Chapter 39 Putting It All Together—A Patient’s Perspective on
the Core
Esra Roan, PhD
- Chapter 40 Final Chapter—Seeing Things a Whole New Way
Quiz Answers
Financial Disclosures
Index
Reviews
“Strength, power, and endurance all flow from the core. This book,
and the work Bill Meyers has done in the field, will bring good
core health to the forefront and help everyone—elite athletes and
others.”
—Michael William Krzyzewski
“Even in baseball, injury patterns in the shoulder and elbow are
related to core imbalance. This book has been needed for a long
time… Bill has helped the idea of core strength become more
popular, and this book could be what is needed to get it more
attention.”
—James Rheuben Andrews, MD