Sports Medicine for Specific Ages and Abilities
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An authoritative text by the international experts in the field which presents a comprehensive review of the medical aspects of sports in relationto the following specific groups of clients: children and adolescents/ women/ veterans (the over 30s!)/ and special groups (those with specific medical conditions and the disabled). This approach by client group rather than by sport of type of injury is unique.Scholarly and comprehensive but also informative and easy to use Gives a multidisciplinary approach to problems in 4 specific groups of sports participants: children and adolescents, women, veterans (the over 30's!), those with specific disorders or disabilities. International editorial team International line up of contributors. Written by the leading clinicians in the field in the world

Table of Contents:
ContributorsPrefaceSECTION 1:Children and Adolescent Atheletes1. Training and injuries in young athletes Nicola Maffulli and Wolfgang Bruns2. The knee in childrens sports Vladimir Martinek and Freddie Fu3. Lower limb injuries in adolescence and childhood John King4. Sports injuries in childrens sports Treg Brown and Lyle J. Mcheli5. Physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness in young people Neil Armstrong and Joanne R. Welsman6. Strength training in young adults David A. Jones and Jonathan P. Folland7. The physiology of exercise in children Colin Boreham8. Endurance training in young athletes Adam D.G. Baxter-Jones9. Nutrition in childrens sports Gabe Mirkin10. Growth and maturation issues in elite young athletes: normal variation and training Adam D.G. Baxter-Jones and Robert M. Malina11. Competitive stress and coping in young sport performers Nickolas C. Smith, Bryan Jones, Neil K. RoachOveruse injuries in gymnasticsJulie SparrowSECTION 2: Women Athletes13. Endocrinological changes in exercising women Bruno Arena and Nicola Maffulli14. Special gynecological problems of the young female athlete Marisa Z. Rose, C. Terence Lee, Nicola Maffulli, Pasquale Patrizio15. Exercise in pregnancy Bruno Arena and Nicola Maffulli16. Dance medicine Margaret Wan Nar Wong, William Wing Kee To and Kai Ming Chan17. Nutritional requirements of female athletes Peter S.W. Davies and Rebecca A. Abbott18. Female athlete triad Constance M. Lebrun19. Physiological aspects of dance Yiannis Koutedakis20. Aspects in the rehabilitation of the injured classical ballet dancer Aileen Kelly21. Faulty alignment and posture perpetuating musculoskeletal problems Jenny McConnellSECTION 3: Ageing and Master Athletes22. Bone metabolism in ageing Susan A. New and David M. Reid23. Musculoskeletal and functional changes following lower limb amputation: implications for exercise prescription Anthony W. Parker and Jarrod D. Meerkin24. Exercise and cardiac health Domhnall MacAuley25. Strength training in older individuals Marc T. Galloway26. Soft tissue responses to exercise in the elderly Maria A. Fiatarone Singh27. Management of musculoskeletal overuse injuries in aging, including master athletes Y. Nabeshima, M. Kurosaka, S. Yoshiya, K. Mizuno28. Balance in the older person: effects of age and disease Graham K. Kerr and Charles J. Worringham29. Exercise in inflammatory arthritis and osteoarthritis David Perry30. Management of osteoarthritis of the knee in middle aged physically active patients Henry Ho, Kai Ming Chan and Christer Rolf31. Sport after total joint arthroplasty William J. Mallon, Thomas Parker Vail32. Health benefits of Tai Chi Chuan in older individualsGuo Ping Li, Ling Qin, Kai Ming Chan33. Alpine skiing in the elderly Arnold Koller34. Racket sports for older individuals Scott A. Lynch, Per A.F.H. Renstrom35. The scientific rationale for the conservative management of soft tissue dysfunction in athletes Glenn HunterSECTION 4: Physical Activity in Disability36. Rehabilitation after cardiac ischemic event Toshihito Katsumura37. Exercise in low back pain patients David Fitzgerald38. Sport and exercise in diabetes Matthew Kiln39. The physiology of walking performance in peripheral arterial disease Simon Green and Christopher Askew40. Anabolic steroid use in adolescents Pirkko Korkia41. Exercise in subjects with haematological disorders Henry G. Watson and Michael Greaves42. Problems with sport surgery in HIV positive patients G. Schweitzer and L. Schlebusch43. Biomechanical problems of the lower limb the key to overuse injury? Simon J. Bartold44. Sports for children with physical disabilities; medical problems of disabled child athletes A.D.J. Webborn45. Sport for children with intellectual disabilities Carolyn OBrienIndex


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  • ISBN-13: 9780443061288
  • Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
  • Publisher Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 1240 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0443061289
  • Publisher Date: 06 Jun 2001
  • Binding: Hardback
  • No of Pages: 488


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