Sports Medicine and Training Tools

ISBN: 9781611228274 出版年：2011 页码：127 Brenda D Carmichael Alan B Mitchell Nova Science

Sports medicine is an area of health and special services that apply medical and scientific knowledge to prevent, recognize, 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.