ABC of sports and exercise medicine / edited by Greg P. Whyte, professor of applied sport & exercise science, Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Science, Liverpool ; John Moores University, Liverpool, UK ; Mike Loosemore, Physician, English Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health, University of College, London, UK ; Clyde Williams, Professor in Sport Science, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Science, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK.

Other author Whyte, Gregory P.
Other author Loosemore, Mike.
Other author Williams, Clyde.
Format Electronic
EditionFourth Edition.
Publication InfoChichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2015.
Descriptionviii, 132 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects

SeriesABC series
ABC series (Malden, Mass.) ^A1040891
Contents Epidemiology of sports injury and illness / Debbie Palmer-Green -- Immediate care in sport / Andy Smith -- Head injuries in sport / Daniel G. Healy -- Injury to face and jaw / Keith R. Postlethwaite -- Eye injuries in sport / Caroline J. MacEwen -- Management of injuries in children / Julian Redhead -- Management of musculoskeletal injuries in the mature athlete / Peter Brukner and Karim Kahn -- Medical care at major sporting events / Mike Loosemore -- Pulmonary dysfunction in athletes / John Dickinson and James Hull -- Infections / Michael J. Martin -- Unexplained underperformance syndrome (overtraining syndrome) / Richard Budgett and Yorck Olaf Schumacher -- Female athlete triad / Noel Pollock -- The athlete's heart / Aneil Malhotra, Greg Whyte and Sanjay Sharma -- Extreme temperature sport and exercise medicine / Michael J. Tipton -- Diving medicine / Peter Wilmshurst -- Altitude medicine / Sundeep Dhillon -- Physical activity and exercise as medicine / John Buckley -- Sport, exercise and disability / Nick Webborn -- Sport, exercise and obesity / David Haslam -- Sport, exercise and children / Neil Armstrong -- Physical activity and exercise in later life / Dawn A. Skelton and Finbarr C. Martin -- Nutrition, energy metabolism, and ergogenic supplements / Clyde Williams -- Drugs in sport / Roger Palfreeman -- Psychology of injury / Andrew Lane.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2015015319
ISBN9781118777527 (pbk.)