Extremes, Survival, Injuries, Faster Higher Stronger - Fitness Fixer
Monday, December 21, 2009
Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM
My professional and life work is understanding and studying the fastest, highest, quickest, coldest, hottest, bravest, strongest in human physiology. I study the body in extremes. I study what makes one person able to survive an event and the person next to him perish. Strong brave men get hazardous duty pay to spend a day with me. I make grown men cry.Since I was small, I wanted to be a scientist. I wanted to live under the sea. I wanted to understand why three people will fall in freezing water, one will die, one will be sick, and one will be fine. In the same marathon, some racers will have heat exhaustion, others experience cold injury. I have lived underwater, on ships, and mountains. I examine long unsolved cold cases as Science Officer of The Vidocq Society, not to know how they died, but their state while alive. (I am the "Spock of Vidocq.")
Since I was very small, I read accounts of survival - stories of defecting MIG pilots, tiger pit prisoners, remote plane crashes, snowbound hikers, expeditions across continents, near-drownings, children of war, swimming races in the arctic, the different bones developed in children learning different trades and movement patterns. I grew up to study the difference in joint angles and limb lengths that confer speed or strength advantage. I study which and how much training supersedes inborn advantage and increases performance.
As a research scientist, I do the "get-your-hands-cold-and-dirty" work to distinguish what actually happens and how it comes to be that way. Many things we heard in school or in stories were never true, just repeated. My work in extremes is mostly behind the scenes (the team player scenario). Piles of data I collected and hand-analyzed for countless studies are in my file cabinets and brain. I apply these studies to develop training methods and injury recovery methods that work for the moment, and for long-term health.
Some readers have asked me to make a category of Fitness Fixer stories called Dr. Bookspan's Excellent Adventures. I will work on it. A few samples are in the Related links below.
Happy Solstice, the longest night of the year in the Northern hemisphere.
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See if your answers are already here - click Fitness Fixer labels, links, archives, and Index. Subscribe free - "updates via e-mail" upper right. For personal medical questions - Replies to Medical Questions.
Limited Class space for personal feedback. Top students may earn certification through DrBookspan.com/Academy. Get more in Dr. Bookspan's Books.
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taken by CDR Jim Caruso, MC, US Navy Pathologist and Undersea Medical Officer
taken by CDR Jim Caruso, MC, US Navy Pathologist and Undersea Medical Officer
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5 Comments:
At Monday, December 21, 2009 11:02:00 AM,
Anonymous said…
Thank you dearest Jolie!!!!
When I read about your life and what you do - it fills me with such respect to you and also increadible excitement!
Human beings are so wondrous and we are so far to know our limits:))
Thank you so much for what you do and what you share!!!!:)))
MERRY COMING CHRISTMAS!!! AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:))
Anya M.
At Monday, December 21, 2009 11:23:00 AM,
Anonymous said…
Thank you so much, dearest Jollie!
When I read about your findings and about you research it fills me with so much respect to you and exitement!
Human beeing are such wondrous creatures and we are so far from knowing our limits!
Thank you so much for what you do and what you share!!! :)
MERRY COMING CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:)
WARMEST WISHES,
ANYA M.
At Monday, December 21, 2009 4:27:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
My dear Dr Jolie - you never cease to amaze me. You may recall me writing to you a few years back telling you that you are my mentor - when someone comes to me asking for help re pain the first thing I say is and I quote: "Dr Jolie says................."
I thank you Dr Jolie you really are an inspiration.
Hugs
Ivy - New Zealand
At Wednesday, December 23, 2009 6:53:00 AM,
Dada said…
Hello Jolie,
the freezing bath puzzles me:
what explains that one man of third will die?
At Wednesday, December 23, 2009 1:50:00 PM,
Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM said…
Dada, Good thinking. There is not one third mortality rate, but that of all people this happens to, some are fine and some are not. Why? How can we survive? I study that.
Dear Ivy, Thank you as always, for stories you send of making things healthy. Zdravstvujte Anya, I enjoyed your blog on your link. Thank you for your great e-mails to me about your work in the orthopedics office seeing young people come in with mechanical pain you know is preventable. I will feature your stories soon. Hope you will teach them some Fixes for their Fitness.
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