Sports Medicine & Therapy Books

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1. Sports Biomechanics: Reducing Injury and Improving Performance, 2nd Edition

   By Roger Bartlett

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

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-55838-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Human Environmental Physiology

   By Mike Tipton, Igor Mekjavic

   Most of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, desert, ice or mountains. Thus for humans (a sub-tropical, low altitude, air-breathing animal) most of the planet represents a hostile environment. This important new book presents an in-depth introduction to human physiological and psychological...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-49101-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Clinical Skills for Exercise Science

   By Paul D. Bromley

   Clinical Skills for Exercise Science is an accessible and authoritative ‘how to’ guide to laboratory and clinical procedures in exercise physiology. Designed for students and practitioners working in health, medicine and exercise science, the book offers clear, practical advice on how to implement...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-48159-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. The Social Organization of Sports Medicine

   Edited by Dominic Malcolm, Parissa Safai

   During the twentieth century the relationship between sport and medicine has developed in the context of broader social, cultural and politico-economic processes. This includes increasing scientific understanding of the human body, growing attention to lifestyle as a health-risk factor, the...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-88444-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. 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 chronic lifestyle-related diseases, and that exercise can bring tangible therapeutic benefits to people with chronic disease. Exercise and Chronic Disease: An Evidence-Based Approach offers the most up-to-date survey...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-49861-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Drugs in Sport, 5th Edition

   Edited by David R Mottram

   Drug use and abuse is perhaps the biggest challenge facing sport today. However, in the eye of the storm of public and press opinion and with medals and morals at stake it can be difficult to gain a clear perspective on this complex issue. Drugs in Sport is the most comprehensive and accurate text...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-55087-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. The End of the Obesity Epidemic

   By Michael Gard

   Despite apocalyptic predictions from a vocal alliance of health professionals, politicians and social commentators that rising obesity levels would lead to a global health crisis, the crisis has not materialised. In this provocative follow up to his classic work of obesity scepticism, The Obesity...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-48988-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Children and Exercise XXV

   Edited by Serge Berthoin, Georges Baquet

   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....

   October 2010 | 978-0-415-57514-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Routledge Handbook of Biomechanics and Human Movement Science

   Edited by Youlian Hong, Roger Bartlett

   The Routledge Handbook of Biomechanics and Human Movement Science is a landmark work of reference. Now available in a concise paperback edition, it offers a comprehensive and in-depth survey of current theory, research and practice in sports, exercise and clinical biomechanics, in both established...

   June 2010 | 978-0-415-57693-2 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    Exercise and Eating Disorders: An Ethical and Legal Analysis

    By Simona Giordano

    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...

    March 2010 | 978-0-415-47606-5 | Paperback (Routledge)