Smart guide to sports medicine
Smart Advice on the most common sports injuries-their diagnoses, treatments, and repercussions. Smart Ways to recover from surgery and exercise after an injury or illness-including alternative medicine.
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New York, NY
John Wiley & Sons
1999
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Table of Contents:
- On your mark!: Benefits of a sporting life
- Evaluating your baseline fitness
- Getting a clean bill of health
- Choosing the best sport for your body
- Sport-specific training
- Profile of the athlete at risk for injury
- Avoiding common athletic mistakes
- Psych up to play
- Myths and facts about nutrition
- Choosing the right shoes
- Shoe shopping
- Socks
- Getting started with lessons and clubs
- Pain: what it means and how to treat it: Myths and facts about pain
- Self-diagnosing pain
- When to call the doctor
- Your first-aid kit
- Pain remedies
- Myths and facts about treating injuries
- Preventing injuries
- Emergency care errors
- Secondary injuries
- Preventing dehydration
- Illnesses from playing in hot weather
- Bouncing back physically
- Bouncing back psychologically
- How to choose a sports medicine practitioner
- Should you choose an alternative medicine practitioner?
- Treating common injuries: skin, head, and back: Skin
- Hair
- Head and neck
- Back
- Treating common injuries: shoulder to hand: Shoulder
- Elbow
- Wrist
- Hand
- Fingers
- Thumb
- Know the signs
- Treating common injuries: pelvis to foot: Body sounds
- Pelvic area
- Hips
- Thighs and quads
- Knee
- Calf and shin
- Ankle and heel
- Toes
- Preventing and treating injuries: sport by sport: Running
- Aerobic dancing
- Cycling
- Tennis and racquet sports
- Golf
- Basketball
- Swimming
- Volleyball
- Winter sports: skiing and ice skating
- Roller and in-line skating
- Women and middle-aged athletes
- Treating orthopedic injuries: Shoulder
- Elbow
- Hips
- Back
- Knee
- Hand and wrist
- On the horizon.