Boxing
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Boxing

Medical Aspects

  1. 900 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Boxing

Medical Aspects

About this book

This book neither argues for or against the continuation of boxing, but lays out the literature and the body of scientific knowledge that are necessary to provide a meaningful background for the ensuing debate. It provides a comprehensive resource for those who are involved in regulating boxing and those who participate directly, as well as for the medical and scientific communities. Includes carefully quoted case histories and research as well as an extensive body of medical literature on boxing injuries to demonstrate that brain damage is a natural consequence of boxing.* Presents in-depth analysis of the phenomenon of "punch drunkness"* Includes detailed case histories of the clinical and pathomorphological findings uncovered by current medical research* Extensively reviews medical literature

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Information

Publisher
Academic Press
Year
2003
Print ISBN
9780127091303
eBook ISBN
9780080528250
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Neurology

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. BOXING MEDICAL ASPECTS
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of contents
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1. Impact Mechanics and Neuropathology of Closed Head Injury
  8. Chapter 2. General Aspects of the Biomechanics of Boxing
  9. Chapter 3. The so-called Second Impact Syndrome
  10. Chapter 4. Prize Ring Rules
  11. Chapter 5. Punches
  12. Chapter 6. Illegal Punches
  13. Chapter 7. Importance of Animal Models for the Interpretation of Boxing Injuries
  14. Chapter 8. Injuries Apart from CNS Damage
  15. Chapter 9. Eye Injuries
  16. Chapter 10. Hearing Impairments
  17. Chapter 11. Injuries to the Hand, Wrist, Muscles and Peripheral Nerves
  18. Chapter 12. Injuries to Internal Organs
  19. Chapter 13. Damage to the Central Nervous System
  20. Chapter 14. Acute Clinical Findings
  21. Chapter 15. Chronic Clinical Findings
  22. Chapter 16. Electroencephalographic Findings in Boxers
  23. Chapter 17. Acute Pathomorphological Findings
  24. Chapter 18. Chronic Pathomorphological Findings
  25. Chapter 19. Cavum septi pellucidi in the Population and in Boxers
  26. Chapter 20. Punch Drunk Syndrome
  27. Chapter 21. Why are Woodpeckers not Punch Drunk?
  28. Chapter 22. Examples of Brain Damaged Boxers
  29. Chapter 23. Fatal Incidents in the Boxing Ring
  30. Chapter 24. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Exposure
  31. Chapter 25. Amateur Boxing in the Armed Forces and Police Academies
  32. Chapter 26. Statements of Medical Societies and their Perspectives of Boxing
  33. Chapter 27. Discussion about Boxing Initiated by Dr. LUNDBERG
  34. Chapter 28. Pros and Cons. Statements by Physicians, Officials, Writers, Moral Theologians, and Politicians, etc
  35. Chapter 29. Boxer 'Nicknames'
  36. Chapter 30. Boxing Spectators
  37. Chapter 31. So-called 'Opponents' and Mismatches
  38. Chapter 32. Purses in Boxing
  39. Chapter 33. Karate
  40. Afterword
  41. Bibliography
  42. Index