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Allan M. Levy, M.D.

Mark L. Fuerst

 		 

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Allan M. Levy, M.D.
Dr. Levy is known as one of the fathers of sports medicine. He was a founder of the sports medicine movement toward active rehabilitation, which became the fundamental principle of his grass-roots sports medicine practice in the mid-1950s.

The Newark (New Jersey) Bears minor league football team hired him as team doctor in 1964, and he attended to three other minor league football teams in New York City, Westchester, and Long Island before he became the New York Giants team physician in 1976, a position he's now held for 25 years. He also joined the New York Islanders professional hockey team for the 1972-1973 season and the New York Rockets indoor professional soccer team for the 1975-1976 season. He was the team doctor for professional basketball's Nets from their inception in 1967 through all of their incarnations on Long Island and New Jersey in both the American Basketball Association and the National Basketball Association through 1992.

Dr. Levy still handles sports injuries from 40 high schools and numerous Little League teams in northern New Jersey, as well as athletes throughout the Eastern seaboard.

He also has been the medical director of an ultramodern physical conditioning and rehabilitation center, The Fitness and Back Institute, in Paramus, N.J. Among the athletes who have rehabilitated injuries under his tutelage include former New York Giants' linebacker Lawrence Taylor, former New York Knicks center Marvin Webster, professional tennis player Rosie Casals, and world-champion figure skater Elaine Zayak.

Dr. Levy is the author of Conditioning for the High School Athlete, Contemporary Books, Inc., and has written a chapter in Sports Medicine for the Athletic Female, as well as more than a dozen articles in such medical journals as The Physician and Sportsmedicine, Sports Medicine News, Diagnosis and Consultant. He has delivered papers at the American College of Sports Medicine, the National Athletic Trainers Association, the National Safety Council, the New Jersey State Safety Council, the Eastern Athletic Trainers Association and at sports medicine seminars at the University of Vermont, Rutgers University and the New Jersey Medical College at Newark.

He is a member of the American College of Sports Medicine, an advisory member of the National Athletic Trainers Association, and has served as a consultant to the Teacher's Institute of Continuing Education, on the executive committee of the New Jersey Governor's Council on Physical Fitness, and as Vice Chairman of the New Jersey State Medical Society Committee on Athletic Injuries, Prevention. Dr. Levy has also served on the editorial boards of Sports Medicine News, Sport Care and Fitness and The Main Event.



Mark L. Fuerst
Joining Dr. Levy as co-author is health and medical writer Mark L. Fuerst. He is also the co-author of The Couple's Guide to Fertility (Doubleday), Tone-a-Metrics: The Bedroom Body Shape Up (Simon & Schuster), Computer Phobia: How to Slay the Dragon of Computer Fear (Banbury Books), and the upcoming Tell Me Where It Hurts: How to Decipher Your Child's Emotional Aches and Physical Pains (Adams Media). A free-lance journalist for more than two decades, Mr. Fuerst's articles have appeared in popular consumer magazines such as Family Circle, Woman's Day, Self, and Health. As a staff writer for Medical World News magazine, he wrote numerous articles on sports medicine, and has attended meetings of the American College of Sports Medicine, the American Orthopaedic Society of Sports Medicine, and various orthopedic medicine seminars.

Mr. Fuerst earned a biology degree from Dickinson College and a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri at Columbia. He is a member of the National Association of Science Writers and is a past president of the American Society of Journalists and Authors.
  
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