Living with Sports Injuries

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8160-7849-3
Verlag: CHECKMARK BOOKS

Buch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 290 g

Reihe: Teen's Guides (Paper)

Each year, approximately 30 million students participate in organized sports in the United States, and an estimated 20 percent experience sports-related injuries. Sports injuries come in many forms, but they fall into two general categories: overuse injuries (caused by excessive stress on a muscle or bone) and acute injuries (caused by sudden trauma). ""Living with Sports Injuries"" provides a comprehensive overview of the causes and types of sports injuries, treatment and prevention, and more. Providing a crash course in sports injuries, this new book examines head and neck, shoulder, elbow, and hip injuries, and much more. Written in clear, straightforward language, this user-friendly book includes case studies and dramatized, real-life examples to illustrate the everyday impact of living with sports injuries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stark, Clifford D.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bowers, Elizabeth Shimer

Über Autor(innen)

Clifford D. Stark, D.O., is medical director of Sports Medicine at Chelsea Piers and assistant professor at Columbia University/New York-Presbyterian Family Medicine. Elizabeth Shimer Bowers writes about health for books, magazines, and Web sites. She is a copywriter and copyeditor for the National Women's Health Resource Center and lives in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania.