Sports Medicine and Exercise Physiology

Contents: 1. Introduction to sports medicine. 2. Sports nutrition and eating disorders. 3. Sports performance. 4. Aspects of sports activities. 5. Training component of sports medicine. 6. Sports injuries. 7. Exercise physiology an introduction. 8. Energy systems of the body. 9. Cardiovascular system. 10. Aerobic running and walking. 11. Exercise performance. 12. Recovery from exercise.
 
Sports medicine is concerned with the care and potential performance of the players. It requires a comprehensive approach. Credit of establishing principles of care was given to Herodicus of Selymbria at the time of Socrates and Claudius Galen in 131 AD. They emphasized training diet massage and a medical approach to athletics. Galen\'s contribution to scientific medicine as monumental. He placed the clinical instructions of Hippocrates on a sound experimental basis for fifteen hundred years his works dominated medical knowledge.

The present book discusses all the aspects of sports medicine and exercise physiology. (jacket)