Dr. William Meyers is the nation's foremost authority on core health. Along with over 40 world-renowned expert contributors, Dr. Meyers explains how the core functions through stories from his work in locker rooms, the operating room, and the playing fields of elite athletes, giving readers a thorough understanding of the core's widespread influence on athleticism and the human anatomy. The book:

• Dissects the events that led Dr. Meyers and his team of experts to their new appreciation of this anatomy
• Brings multiple world-renowned arthroscopists into the overall core picture, providing their perspectives on how the core works, with the pubic bone as “the sun” of the body's universe
• Offers insight into the many causes of pelvic pain, demonstrating why the term “sports hernia,” should be banished forever
• Emphasizes the fact that a wide spectrum of professionals treat the core – from traditional surgeons to alternative therapists
• Brings it all together and proposes a new future, and perhaps a new medical specialty, that is the core