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 |
| Edition | Fourth Edition. |
| Publication Info | Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2015. |
| Description | viii, 132 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | ABC 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2015015319 |
| ISBN | 9781118777527 (pbk.) |