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Injuries in Athletics: Causes and Consequences

Injuries in Athletics: Causes and Consequences


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Foundations of Injury in Athletics.- Classification of Injuries in Athletics.- Science of Training and Injury in Athletics.- Balance as a Risk Factor for Athletic Injuries.- Fatigue-Related Injuries in Athletes.- Nutrition as a Risk Factor for Injury in Elite Athletes.- Coaches and Athletes' Perspectives of Injury.- Injury in Athletics: Coaches' Point of View.- Injury from Athletes' Perspectives.- Interviews with Injured Athletes.- Overuse Injuries: Students' Points of View.- Fitness Assessment in Athletes.- Psychological Traumas in Athletes.- Psychological Trauma: Unfortunate Experience in Athletics.- Fear as Adaptive or Maladaptive Form of Emotional Response.- Fear of Injury, Kinesiophobia & Perceived Risk.- Multiple Facets of Pain due to Injury.- Psychological Trauma: Case Studies.- Psychological Trauma: Age & Gender Factors.- Concussion in Athletes.- Concussion: Why Bother?.- Concussion Classification: Historical Perspectives and Current Trends.- Evaluation of Concussion: Signs and Symptoms.- Traumatic Brain Injuries in Children.- Injury Rehabilitation.- Integrated Injury Rehabilitation.- EEG & Neurofeedback in Rehabilitation.- Virtual Reality in Injury Rehabilitation.
About the Author:

Semyon Slobounov, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Kinesiology College of Health of Human Development, and Adjunct Professor of Orthopaedics and Medical Rehabilitation with Hershey Medical College at the Pennsylvania State University, with primary responsibilities to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in the areas of psychology of injury, neural basis of motor behavior, and psychophysiology. His coaching background and clinical work with numerous injured athletes for more than 25 years was instrumental for development of ideas and topics elaborated in this book. His research focused on neural basis of human movements with special emphasis on rehabilitation medicine, psychology and neurophysiology, including traumatic brain injuries. Dr. Slobounov is an adjunct investigator with the National Institute of Health, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. He also is an adjunct Professor of the Neuroscience and an affiliate Professor of Gerontology Center at Penn State. He received his first Ph.D. from the University of Leningrad, Department of Psychology, USSR in 1978 and his second Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Kinesiology in 1994.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781489993885
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
  • Edition: 2008 ed.
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 29 mm
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1489993886
  • Publisher Date: 12 Sep 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 544
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 838 gr


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