The Injury Self-Care and Prevention Guide: For the Athlete, Weekend Warrior, Couch Potato, Prepper, and Protester

Whether you are a competitive or recreational athlete, aging weekend-warrior, couch potato, or the ultimate "Prepper" or Protester, this is the perfect Self-Care guide that you must keep close along with your first aid manual. During the 2020-Covid-19 pandemic, - periods of civil unrest and uncertainty - access to medical care was discouraged to allow beds for potential Covid-19 patients.The way medicine is practiced has changed because of the outbreak, and unprecedented processes and procedural changes have been imposed on professional health care workers. The need to take care of yourself without access to trained professional interaction is a real evolving possibility. Efforts to defund agencies that are in place to protect and serve you seem to be evolving in various parts of the country. How far will that go? Preppers retreat to safe locals often remote locations and protesters alike with new-found autonomous zones and their efforts to recreate governing systems that are self-sufficient, may isolate themselves from professional care.Have you ever hurt yourself and asked yourself "Should I put Ice on it or Heat it"?Uncertainty and the unknown amplify fear and anxiety with a new injury, which often involves pain and the loss of function.This injury and prevention self care guide, for musculoskeletal injuries, provides you with easy- to- follow directions and advice for treating new injuries, and additionally suggests when a trip to the doctor is needed- using its "Red Flag Logic Alerts".Behavioral restrictions and modifications brought on by fear from the 2020 Pandemic- (even if just temporary - some permanency seems inevitable), further disrupts the delivery of health care that we all know or knew and creates new unknowns and uncertainty.-Quarantines, "Stay-at-Home Orders", "Shelter-in-Place Mandates", they all complicate the delivery of medical care.-"Executive Orders" restricting Surgeons from performing elective surgery, denies access and delays treatments that if done at a later time could have a less favorable resultWho would have ever thought that such a thing could ever happen?The only portion of "Elective Surgery" that is "Elective" is that the Doctor and the patient choose the date and the time The decision to choose surgery is usually the last resort after having tried other treatment approaches to resolve loss of function and pain for various parts of the Musculoskeletal system; many of these approaches are included in this self-care guide -Hospitals requiring to be tested for a virus before surgical procedures can be performed. What happened to privacy? This variable as well could delay or discourage treatment.-Being told to wear surgical masks, but without clear instructions. Once a surgeon touches a surgical mask, hands are scrubbed, never touching the mask again until the surgery is finished and the sterile dressing applied.This guide is a concise text-only electronic file which can be immediately available to you from your smart-phone; if you are "off-grid" you can keep a paper copy. This Self-Care guide is broken down into 3 sections:1.) General Self-Care Principles -specific instructions for self-care and guidance when a doctor is needed- Red Flags 2.)Injuries by Body Part -various pain patterns and functional limitations that occur for each area3.)Injuries by Sport -athletes and those new to sport- technique modification and preventionWilliam F Bennett MD is an orthopedic surgeon with 30 years of orthopedic experience and is an expert in Stem Cell-PRP therapy for the musculoskeletal system and minimally invasive surgery for shoulders and knees. Dr Bennett has also founded two medical device companies, Ziptek LLC USA with FDA clearance and one in Mexico. He has 25 patents in 10 different countries and has developed an implantable device that works like a "Zip-Tie" for repairing torn tissue.