Sports Injury Handbook : An Athlete's Guide to Causes, Prevention and Treatment,9781585743179

Sports Injury Handbook : An Athlete's Guide to Causes, Prevention and Treatment

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ISBN13: 9781585743179
ISBN10: 1585743178
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2001-04-01
Publisher(s): The Lyons Press
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Summary

From runner's knee to tennis elbow, sports injuries are laid out in simple, non-clinical terms with information on treatments and a detailed program to quicken rehabilitation. Illustrations.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii
Robert H. Boyle
Preface xv
Part One: Prevention Through Fitness and Exercise
The Muscular System
3(11)
Testing Your Fitness: The Minimum Sports Fitness Test
14(7)
Warming Up and Cooling Down: The Sports Fitness Exercise Program
21(9)
Weight Training
30(9)
Sports and Activities
39(34)
Part Two: Treatment and Rehabilitation
Introduction To Part Two
72(1)
A New Treatment: Movement and Ethyl Chloride
73(7)
Other Treatments for Injury
80(5)
Rehabilitation After Injury: The Upper Extremities
85(9)
Rehabilitation After Injury: The Lower Extremities
94(24)
Rehabilitation After Injury: The Neck and Back
118(21)
Rehabilitation After Fracture
139(7)
A Caution for the Young and Old
146(2)
Index 148

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