Exercise Therapy Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. Attachment in Sport, Exercise and Wellness

   By Sam Carr

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport and Exercise Science

   Attachment theory is a concept well known to ‘mainstream’ psychologists, informing the literature in areas as diverse as psychodynamics, developmental psychology, social psychology and counselling. This important new book is the first to demonstrate the relevance of attachment theory to the...

   Published October 9th 2011 by Routledge
3. Exercise and Chronic Disease

   An Evidence-Based Approach

   Edited by John Saxton

   It is now widely accepted that there are important links between inactivity and lifestyle-related chronic diseases, and that exercise can bring tangible therapeutic benefits to people with long-term chronic conditions. Exercise and Chronic Disease: An Evidence-Based Approach offers the most...

   Published March 20th 2011 by Routledge
4. Exercise and Eating Disorders

   An Ethical and Legal Analysis

   By Simona Giordano

   Series: Ethics and Sport

   Eating disorders (EDs) have become a social epidemic in the developed world. This book addresses the close links between EDs and exercise, helping us to understand why people with EDs often exercise to excessive and potentially harmful levels. This is also the first book to examine this issue from...

   Published March 24th 2010 by Routledge
5. Human Muscle Fatigue

   Edited by Craig Williams, Sébastien Ratel

   When human muscle fatigues, athletic performance becomes impaired. For those individuals suffering muscle or metabolic diseases the effects of muscle fatigue can make everyday tasks difficult. Understanding the scientific processes responsible for skeletal muscle fatigue is therefore central to the...

   Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
6. Kinanthropometry and Exercise Physiology Laboratory Manual: Tests, Procedures and Data

   Volume Two: Physiology, 3rd Edition

   By Roger Eston, Thomas Reilly

   Edited by Tom Reilly, Roger Eston

   Kinanthropometry is the study of human body size, shape and form and how those characteristics relate to human movement and sporting performance. In this fully updated and revised edition of the classic guide to kinanthropometric theory and practice, leading international sport and exercise...

   Published October 20th 2008 by Routledge
7. Group Dynamics in Exercise and Sport Psychology

   Contemporary Themes

   Edited by Mark R. Beauchamp, Mark A. Eys

   Can a better understanding of group dynamics raise individual and team athletic performance or improve the outcomes of exercise interventions? Much human behaviour in sport and exercise settings is embedded within groups where individuals’ cognitions, emotions, and behaviours influence and are...

   Published November 28th 2007 by Routledge
8. Psychology of Physical Activity

   Determinants, Well-Being and Interventions, 2nd Edition

   By Stuart J. H. Biddle, Nanette Mutrie

   As modern lifestyles offer ever more opportunities for a sedentary existence, physical activity has become, for many, a marginal aspect of life. Too little physical activity is linked to common, often serious, health problems, and although this link is now widely acknowledged, levels of sedentary...

   Published August 30th 2007 by Routledge
9. Children, Obesity and Exercise

   Prevention, Treatment and Management of Childhood and Adolescent Obesity

   Edited by Andrew P. Hills, Neil A. King, Nuala M. Byrne

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

   Throughout the developed world there is an increasing prevalence of childhood obesity. Because of this increase, and awareness of the risks to long term health that childhood obesity presents, the phenomena is now described by many as a global epidemic. Children, Obesity and...

   Published July 2nd 2007 by Routledge
10. Exercise, Health and Mental Health

    Emerging Relationships

    Edited by Guy E.J. Faulkner, Adrian H. Taylor

    Exercise, Health and Mental Health provides an introduction to this emerging field and a platform for future research and practice. Written by internationally acclaimed exercise, health and medical scientists, it is the first systematic review of the evidence for the potential role of exercise...

    Published December 19th 2005 by Routledge