Sports Medicine

When an athlete gets injured great attention is paid to understanding the physical nature of their injury and putting in place strategies for rehabilitation. Too often though, the psychological effects of injury are not even considered, yet an injury can have a profound psychological effect onthe well-being of the athlete. To attend only to the phy …

A second edition of this well-referenced and unique textbook of sports science and medicine. The book covers the principles of sports physiology and internal medicine as it relates to athletes and their performance, orthopaedics and injuries to the soft tissues, and the physiological basis oftraining and fitness maintenance. With a distinguished an …