Sports Medicine : Fitness, Training and Injuries

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Doping. 3. The medical values. 4. Professionalism and commercialism in sports. 5. Investigation. 6. Amateur pastime to professional spectacle. 7. Sporting bodies and medicine. 8. Pain and injury. 9. The importance of injury in the commercialised world of sport. 10. Social risk. 11. Muscle: strength, endurance, flexibility and motor. Bibliography. Index.

"This book is a practical guide to the field of sports science and the treatment of sports injuries. Written for students in sports science and medicine, trainees and specialists in sports medicine and related disciplines such as rehabilitation, orthopaedics and other physicians working with athletes in the field, it also highlights the value of sports psychology. The book presents the clinical management of both acute and chronic sports injuries and medical problems alongside the background and basic science of sports medicine." (jacket)