Summary
Playing sports can improve fitness and coordination and boost self-discipline and self-esteem, but these benefits sometimes come at a price; sports injuries. This detailed examination covers the causes, diagnoses, current treatments and rehabilitation for the different types of sports injuries. Since many of them are preventable, author Hal Marcovitz includes a discussion of training and safety techniques as well as changes to equipment that have been instituted as a result of common athletic injuries.
Contents
Introduction: When sports can be too intenseWhat causes sports injuries?
How are sports injuries diagnosed?
How are sports injuries treated?
How are sports injuries rehabilitated?
How can sports injuries be avoided?
Additional Information
| Series | Diseases and disorders series. |
| Subjects |
Sports injuries
-- Popular works.
Sports injuries -- Diagnosis. Sports injuries -- Treatment. Electronic books. |
| Publisher | Detroit :Lucent Books,2010 |
| Language |
English |
| Description |
1 online resource (112 pages) : color illustrations. |
| Bibliography Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 9781420503470 (electronic book) 1420503472 (electronic book) |
| Links | |
| Other | Classic View |