Sport Injury Prevention Anatomy
eBook - ePub

Sport Injury Prevention Anatomy

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Sport Injury Prevention Anatomy

About this book

Discover exercises proven to strengthen the body and keep injuries at bay.

Develop a body that can withstand the rigorous pressures of competitive sport and physical activity! Sport Injury Prevention Anatomy offers you a detailed look into some of the most common sport injury conditions and the best exercises to help prevent their occurrence.

Throughout the text, stunning full-color medical illustrations paired with the latest sport injury science guide you in reducing the likelihood of an injury before it happens.

Reduce the risk of common injuries like ACL tears, shoulder instability, concussions, and strains of the hamstring and low back. The book’s comprehensive coverage presents injuries by body segments—beginning with the head and neck and continuing all the way down through the lower leg and foot.

Sport Injury Prevention Anatomy helps you design your own exercise programs by exploring the key components of an injury prevention program: needs analysis, exercise selection, training frequency, timing, and intensity and volume. Focusing on resistance training as an ideal injury prevention method, you’ll find sample programming templates as well as advice on how to incorporate the various exercises into an existing training plan. You’ll also learn the important role the warm-up plays in injury prevention and discover methods to prime your body for optimal performance.

No one wants to be sidelined by injury. Sport Injury Prevention Anatomy provides you with the know-how to protect your body from damage and stay in competitive form.

Earn continuing education credits/units! A continuing education exam that uses this book is also available. It may be purchased separately or as part of a package that includes both the book and exam.

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Information

Publisher
Human Kinetics
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781718208285
eBook ISBN
9781718208292
Edition
1
Subtopic
Anesthesiology & Pain Management

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1. Understanding Sport Injuries
  7. Chapter 2. Injury Prevention Exercise Principles
  8. Chapter 3. Head, Neck, and Shoulder
  9. Chapter 4. Elbow, Wrist, and Hand
  10. Chapter 5. Spine and Trunk
  11. Chapter 6. Hip
  12. Chapter 7. Thigh
  13. Chapter 8. Knee
  14. Chapter 9. Leg, Ankle, and Foot
  15. Chapter 10. Warm-Up for Injury Prevention
  16. Chapter 11. Injury Prevention Program Design
  17. Exercise Finder
  18. References
  19. About the Authors
  20. Earn Continuing Education Credits/Units

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