Sports Medicine Books

New and Published Books – Page 1

1. Routledge Handbook of Physical Activity and Mental Health

   Edited by Panteleimon Ekkekakis

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   A growing body of evidence shows that physical activity can be a cost-effective and safe intervention for the prevention and treatment of a wide range of mental health problems. As researchers and clinicians around the world look for evidence-supported alternatives and complements to established...

   Published April 22nd 2013 by Routledge
2. Children and Exercise XXVII

   The Proceedings of the XXVIIth International Symposium of the European Group of Pediatric Work Physiology, September, 2011

   Edited by Craig Williams, Neil Armstrong

   Children and Exercise XXVII presents the latest scientific research into paediatric sport and exercise science and medicine, including contributions from a wide range of leading international experts and early career researchers. The book begins with chapters devoted to the five invited...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Psychology of Sport Injury and Rehabilitation

   Edited by Monna Arvinen-Barrow, Natalie Walker

   Athletes routinely use psychological skills and interventions for performance enhancement but, perhaps surprisingly, not always to assist in recovery from injury. This book demonstrates the ways in which athletes and practitioners can transfer psychological skills to an injury and rehabilitation...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
4. Routledge Handbook of Sports Performance Analysis

   Edited by Tim McGarry, Peter O'Donoghue, Jaime Sampaio

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Sport performance analysis techniques help coaches, athletes and sport scientists develop an objective understanding of actual sport performance, as opposed to self-report, fitness tests or laboratory based experiments. For example, contemporary performance analysis enables elite sports people and...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
5. Children and Exercise XXV

   The proceedings of the 25th Pediatric Work Physiology Meeting

   Edited by Georges Baquet, Serge Berthoin

   Children and Exercise XXV presents the latest research in the field of paediatric exercise sciences, focusing on the interaction between physical activity, exercise or sport on the one hand, and nutrition, metabolism regulation, cardio-respiratory function or muscle function on the other....

   Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. Team Physician Manual

   International Federation of Sports Medicine (FIMS)

   Edited by Lyle Micheli, Fabio Pigozzi, Kai-Ming Chan, Walter Frontera, Norbert Bachl, Angela Smith, S. Talia Alenabi

   The FIMS Team Physician Manual is the official sports medicine handbook of the International Federation of Sports Medicine (FIMS), the world’s oldest sports medicine organization. Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, the book offers a complete guide to the background knowledge,...

   Published October 21st 2012 by Routledge
7. The Social Organization of Sports Medicine

   Critical Socio-Cultural Perspectives

   Edited by Dominic Malcolm, Parissa Safai

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   The Social Organization of Sports Medicine is the first book-length overview of the social scientific study of sports medicine, drawing together work from an international cadre of scholars who examine and provide interdisciplinary analysis of the dynamic and multi-faceted relationships between...

   Published August 16th 2012 by Routledge
8. Body Composition in Sport, Exercise and Health

   Edited by Arthur Stewart, Laura Sutton

   The analysis of body composition (fat, bone and muscle) is an important process throughout the biomedical sciences. This is the first book to offer a clear and detailed introduction to the key methods and techniques in body composition analysis and to explain the importance of body composition data...

   Published June 6th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Ethics of Sports Medicine

   Edited by Claudio Tamburrini, Torbjörn Tännsjö

   Series: Ethics and Sport

   The book aims to establish a critical dialogue between sports ethicists and bioethicists across the range of sporting disciplines at elite level. It will address questions such as: are the increasingly intrusive testing methods of elite sports compatible with the right to autonomy and privacy...

   Published January 14th 2012 by Routledge
10. Sports Biomechanics

    Reducing Injury Risk and Improving Sports Performance, 2nd Edition

    By Roger Bartlett, Melanie Bussey

    When working with sports men and women, the biomechanist is faced with two apparently incompatible goals: reducing injury risk and improving sports performance. Now in a fully updated and revised edition, Sports Biomechanics introduces the fundamental principles that underpin our understanding of...

    Published November 2nd 2011 by Routledge