Injuries in athletics : causes and consequences /

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Author / Creator:Slobounov, Semyon.
Imprint:New York : Springer, c2008.
Description:1 online resource (xv, 544 p.) : ill., port.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8886559
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ISBN:9780387725772
0387725776
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Over the past decade, the scientific information on psychology of injury has increased considerably. Despite dramatic advances in physical education of coaches, field of medicine, athletic training, and physical therapy, the sport-related traumatic injuries is our major concern. Athletic injuries, both single and multiple, have a tendency to grow dramatically. Accordingly, prevention of sport-related injuries is a major challenge facing the sport medicine world today. The purpose of this book is to accumulate the latest development in psychological analyses, evaluation, and management of sport.
Other form:Print version: Slobounov, Semyon. Injuries in athletics. New York : Springer, c2008 9780387725765 0387725768