Sports injuries : prevention, management and risk factors / Gabrielle Hopkins, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hopkins, Gabrielle, editor.

Series:

Sports and athletics preparation, performance, and psychology series.

Sports and Athletics Preparation, Performance, and Psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports injuries.

Sports injuries--Prevention.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (172 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Consistent physical activity and sport participation is essential for physiological health and mental well-being. Regular physical activity reduces the risk of hypokinetic diseases such as diabetes mellitus, coronary heart disease, osteoporosis and lower back pain. Unfortunately, however, participation in sport and physical activity lends itself to injuries, although it must be stressed that the benefits outweigh the associated maladies. There are many risk factors that predispose the sport enthusiast to injury, and these are classified as either extrinsic or intrinsic. Intrinsic risk factors

Contents:

""SPORTS INJURIES: PREVENTION, MANAGEMENT AND RISK FACTORS""; ""SPORTS INJURIES: PREVENTION, MANAGEMENT AND RISK FACTORS""; ""Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1: Management of Femoroacetabular Impingement in the Athlete""; ""Abstract""; ""Introduction""; ""History of FAI""; ""Epidemiology""; ""Epidemiology of FAI in Athletes""; ""Presentation""; ""Physical Exam""; ""Differential""; ""Imaging""; ""Plain Radiographs""; ""General Considerations""; ""Pincer Deformity Evaluation""; ""Cam Deformity Evaluation""; ""MRI""

""Computed Tomography""""Prevention""; ""Treatment""; ""Nonoperative Management""; ""Surgical Intervention""; ""Open Surgical Treatment""; ""Arthroscopy""; ""Rehabilitation""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Chapter 2: A Summary of Central Nervous System Injuries Associated with the Sport of Ice Hockey""; ""Abstract""; ""Introduction""; ""Methods""; ""Concussion""; ""Spinal Cord Injury""; ""Second Impact Syndrome""; ""Selected Case Reports of CNS Injuries""; ""Spinal Cord Concussion""; ""Post-Concussive Syndrome and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy""; ""Fatal Head and Neck Trauma""

""Sudden Death due to Neck Blows among Amateur Hockey Players""""Blunt Carotid Artery Injury""; ""Fatal Traumatic Vertebral Artery Aneurysm Rupture""; ""Unspecified Fatal Head Trauma""; ""Conclusion""; ""Conflicts of Interest""; ""References""; ""Chapter 3: Protective Headgear for Rugby, Australian Rules Football and Soccer""; ""Abstract""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Head Injury Incidence""; ""3. Protective Headgear""; ""4. Utilisation and Attitudes to Non-Mandatory Headgear""; ""5. Biomechanical Assessment of Impact Attenuation of Soccer Protective Headgear""

""6. Biomechanical Assessment of Impact Attenuation of Rugby and ARF Protective Headgear""""7. Influence of Protective Headgear on Head Injury Rate""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Chapter 4: Predicting and Preventing Sport Injuries: The Role of Stress""; ""Abstract""; ""The Beginnings of the Study of the""; ""Stress-Sport Injury Relationships""; ""The Andersen and Williams�s Stress and Injury Model""; ""Mechanisms Underlying the Stress-Injury Relationships""; ""Muscle Tension""; ""Attention Deficit""; ""Other Mechanisms""; ""Preventing Sport Injuries through""

""Stress Control Strategies""""Psychological Intervention Programs""; ""for Reduction of Injury: An Overview""; ""Proposals for Future Research""; ""References""; ""Chapter 5: Injuries in Hurling and Camogie: A Review of Incidence, Management and Prevention""; ""Abstract""; ""Background""; ""Injury Rates and Demographics""; ""Injury Patterns""; ""Earliest Studies""; ""Early Studies of Equipment Benefit""; ""Common Injury Sites""; ""Head and Facial Injuries, Including Eye Injuries""; ""Hand Injuries""; ""Muscular and Spinal Injuries""; ""Newly Emerging Injury Patterns""

""Player Attitudes to Protective Equipment""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-63463-350-4

OCLC:

899496939