Product Description: This edition is updated, expanded and illustrated, divided into 11 section headings that cover the legal, psychosocial and practical aspects of sports activities in general and the injuries and benefits resulting from specific sports.

The book's outline format is ideal for quick scanning and retrieval of needed information. Subjects which lend themselves to visuals, such as taping and bracing, are heavily illustrated and radiographs are supplied in several chapters. Fourteen new chapters in this edition cover setting up a high school sports medicine program, medical coverage for Special Olympics Games, high altitude training and competition, overtraining, exercise addiction, infection in athletes, anemia in athletes, renal and genitourinary problems, gastrointestinal problems, stress fractures, ice hockey, martial arts, and administration and medical management of mass participation endurance events.

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