Encyclopaedia of Sports Medicine

Contents: 1. What is Sports Medicine? 2. Drugs and the Sportsperson. 3. Sports Medicine its Forms and Descriptions. 4. Disorders of the Locomotive System. 5. The Respiratory System. 6. Care and Treatment of Skin Disorders and Diseases. 7. Significance of Strength and Flexibility Training in Sports Medicine. 8. Physiology of Skeletal Muscle. 9. Medical Conditions: Cardiovascular Diseases and Respiratory and other Diseases. 10. Doctrines of Prevention of Injury. 11. Significance of Rehabilitation in Sports Medicine.

From the Preface: This book is especially written for the sports enthusiasts, sports medicine clinician, medical practitioner, physiotherapist, sports trainer, coaches, instructors and the students of physical education as well. The concept of sports medicine assumes a patient for whom participant in a sport carries special significance, a patient with specific achievement goals and for whom return to training and competition has considerable importance. Thus, sports medicine has not been a valid concept in children below a certain age. These are patients who play rather than train on compete and their treatment appropriately deserves a more leisurely and less goal oriented tone, current social and athletic trends, however, have pushed the commencement of serious training to adolescent and even pre-pubescent levels in many sports.