Oxford Textbook of Sports Medicine
Author | : Mark Harries |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
ISBN-10 | : 0192627171 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780192627179 |
Rating | : 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: A second edition of this well-referenced and unique textbook of sports science and medicine. The book covers the principles of sports physiology and internal medicine as it relates to athletes and their performance, orthopaedics and injuries to the soft tissues, and the physiological basis oftraining and fitness maintenance. With a distinguished and authoritative panel of authors, the multidisciplinary, international approach has a practical emphasis on the treatment of sports injuries. The second edition of this popular textbook has been fully up-dated and restructured for increasedease of use and will include new sections on: Body composition, mechanical tests, immunological aspects of sport, and overtraining.