ABC of sports and exercise medicine / edited by Greg P. Whyte, Mike Loosemore, Clyde Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Loosemore, Mike, editor.

Williams, Clyde, editor.

Whyte, Gregory P., editor.

Series:

ABC series (Malden, Mass.)

ABC Book Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports medicine.

Sports injuries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 132 pages)

Edition:

4th ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, [England] : John Wiley & Sons, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The ABC of Sports and Exercise Medicine provides general practitioners with a comprehensive overview of the field of sports medicine. This highly illustrated and thoroughly revised and updated new edition: Reflects new developments and current practice Includes new chapters on medical care at sporting events, environmental factors of sports and exercise, benefits of exercise in health and disease, nutrition and ergogenic supplements, and the use of drugs in sport Covers the benefits of exercise among special populations such as the disabled, obese, pregnant, children and the elderly Covering

Contents:

Epidemiology of sports injury and illness / Debbie Palmer-Green

Immediate care in sport / Andy Smith

Head injuries in sport / Daniel G. Healy

Injury to face and jaw / Keith R. Postlethwaite

Eye injuries in sport / Caroline J. MacEwen

Management of injuries in children / Julian Redhead

Management of musculoskeletal injuries in the mature athlete / Peter Brukner and Karim Kahn

Medical care at major sporting events / Mike Loosemore

Pulmonary dysfunction in athletes / John Dickinson and James Hull

Infections / Michael J. Martin

Unexplained underperformance syndrome (overtraining syndrome) / Richard Budgett and Yorck Olaf Schumacher

Female athlete triad / Noel Pollock

The athlete's heart / Aneil Malhotra, Greg Whyte and Sanjay Sharma

Extreme temperature sport and exercise medicine / Michael J. Tipton

Diving medicine / Peter Wilmshurst

Altitude medicine / Sundeep Dhillon

Physical activity and exercise as medicine / John Buckley

Sport, exercise and disability / Nick Webborn

Sport, exercise and obesity / David Haslam

Sport, exercise and children / Neil Armstrong

Physical activity and exercise in later life / Dawn A. Skelton and Finbarr C. Martin

Nutrition, energy metabolism, and ergogenic supplements / Clyde Williams

Drugs in sport / Roger Palfreeman

Psychology of injury / Andrew Lane.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781118777503

1118777506