Product Description

This textbook of sports science and medicine covers the principles of sports physiology and internal medicine as it relates to athletes and their performance, orthopaedics and injuries to the soft tissues, and the physiological basis of training and fitness maintenance. The multidisciplinary, international approach has a practical emphasis on the treatment of sports injuries. This second edition has been fully updated and restructured for increased ease of use and includes new sections on: body composition (both how to measure it and how to apply the information; mechanical tests (how to do them and what they show); immunological aspects of sport; and overtraining.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2355583 in Books
• Published on: 2000-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 984 pages