Sports Medicine & Training Tools

Klappentext

Sports medicine is an area of health and special services that apply medical and scientific knowledge to prevent, recognise, manage, and rehabilitate injuries related to sport, exercise, or recreational activity. This book examines research in the study of sports medicine, as well as training tools used to increase endurance and improve performance in athletics. Topics discussed include wrestling with herpes; steroids in interscholastic athletics; the importance of parent physical activity levels in children's health; biomechanics of martial arts; bioenergetical assessment and training control in cyclic sports and the reasons why college athletes continue to play through pain during competition.

Zusammenfassung
Sports Medicine & Training Tools

Inhalt

Preface; Wrestling with Herpes: A Case Study; Why College Athletes Play Through Pain During Competition; Steroids in Interscholastic Athletics: Does Reasonable Suspicion Exist?; The Importance of Parent Physical Activity Levels & Their Expectations for Their Children's Health: A Path Analysis; Bioenergetical Assessment & Training Control as Useful Tools to Improve Performance in Cyclic Sports; Biomechanics of Martial Arts & Combative Sports; Index.