This popular handbook comprehensively covers the prevention and treatment of sports injuries, and is thus essential reading for all athletes, trainers, physio-therapists and doctors. It covers all international sports and features extensive use of action photographs.
« This new edition reflects the explosion of knowledge in basic science and clinical care for athletes with mild traumatic brain injury or concussion. Interest in management and methodology for making diagnoses and improving clinical outcomes have changed dramatically. All U.S. …
"In recent years, interest in applied sport and exercise psychology has soared. Sport Psychology:Concepts and Applications is written for students who are interested in learning about sport and exercise psychology as an academic discipline and in using that knowledge in applied …
Drug use and abuse represents perhaps the most profound and high-profile issue facing sport today. Each major international championship seems to deliver a new drug-related controversy, while drug takers and sports administrators attempt to out-manoeuvre each other with new subs…
This book explores the topic of drugs in sport from both a scientific and social/political viewpoint. It covers each major class of drugs, describing how they work and their effects, and looks at why drugs are used in sport.
« Perform accurate evaluations of orthopedic injuries. In this book, organized by body region, each chapter begins with a review of anatomy and joint function; proceeds through clinical examination, specific pathologies, and related selective tissue tests (specific tests); and c…
Peut-on améliorer la prise en charge médicale des traumatismes et de diverses pathologies de l'appareil locomoteur à l'aide d'un renforcement musculaire programmé? Les auteurs ont de bonnes raisons de répondre "oui" en suggérant des modules de rééducation soigneusement élaborés.…
« Principles of athletic training: a competency-based approach is designed to be used by athletic trainers in courses concerned with the scientific, evidence-based and clinical foundations of athletic training and sports medicine. The text leads the student from general foundati…
"Of the forty-six surviving victory odes of Pindar, eleven give praise to athletes from the island of Aigina in the Saronic Gulf. This book offers studies of those eleven songs, preceded by a brief survey of the island's history, a sketch of its peculiar aristocracy, and a descr…
