I agree. Those were wonderful resources.
It is easy to find Internet sources that say they provide medical info, like the about.com Sports Medicine page.
But those links were more authoritative than most, because the info is produced by people with real medical training.
I think these fall somewhere in between:
http://www.mayoclinic.com (my favorite)
http://www.webmd.com (I'm not sure if everything there comes from doctors)
Yes, isn't it great....... that we can have Resources geared to different levels of learning, plus preferences.
reasons I Appreciate sites like:
http://www.nureyev-medical.org/ -- Dance-related
&
http://www.usfsa.org/Story.asp?id=40699 -- off-ice Warm-up, Stretching, & Cool-down
&
http://www.aafp.org/afp/2003/0901/p907.html -- KNEE-symptoms, pain, history, exam, X-ray & Labs, on Sport's Injury Clinic
amongst others, is
because:
1. They provide
Clear pictures & I'm so visual, that everything I encounter, gets turned into a Movie
mostly instantaneously
inside my head in full Technicolor & Surround-sound, lol - or I need more explanations, so that I can.........
&
2. they
Accentuate the POSITIVE: got a challenge? - here's some possible causes, &
what you/personally can do to HEAL...(whereas on other sites they post things like: "
Manage-symptoms,
Control-pain", & accept
chronic hope loss).
I find that far less useful, because by its nature it LIMITS
what further successes people could -otherwise- look forward to. And I'm all about succeeding... in our beloved Figureskating sport.
&
3. By virtue of their
CAN DO attitude, they allow for the philosophy/MIND-practice I was blessed being raised by, starting with facts like:
* only one doc. in the entire town, so people naturally practiced self-reliant skills, and Independence...
* Outside (those who needed a bigger town's Clinic, or Hospital), after some days this one single doc. may (or not) make a home-visit.
* His entire pharmacy, consisted of a tiny bag of sugar-cubes, unto which he'd drop peppermint-oil, & you guessed right, the PLACEBO-effect
went into full-gear, as irrespective of injury, he pronounced his magical incantation: "THIS is just what you need to help you heal..." -
You know, people TRUST doctors to KNOW things, so of course they
Allow himself, or herself, to heal... &
with so much proof of Hypnosis working, the AMA couldn't help but accept it as an effective agent in their tool-bags, in the 1950's.
&
4. The specific sites that JimStanmore shared, also speak the language in which I was trained, & have been employed in for decades,
so I find them less watered-down, less filtered, less manipulated, and therefore less authoritarian.
I noticed you Query
also mentioning this concept of 'authoritarian': Would you agree? - that, armed with more Awareness, plus a broader Model to operate from, &
partnering with other such Practitioners, people can make more of their own CHOICEs, their own decisions, for their own health & happiness.
Partnering with a couple MD.'s, ND's, LMP's, & others, I enjoy finding more... such practitioners
empowering more mind. Does this seem like a winner to you too?