Sports medicine : practical guidelines for general practice
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Sports medicine : practical guidelines for general practice
Butterworth Heinemann, c1999
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Sports medicine is a topic of growing interest in General Practice, and the benefits of exercise in daily life are increasingly promoted. However, in adopting an advisory role, the GP needs to be well informed with regard to the overall health of the patient and the relevant benefits of different physical activities. Most available texts currently deal with the injury side of sports medicine, containing too much basic science and orthopaedic information to be of use to General Practitioners. This book concentrates on the medical aspects of exercise as applicable to a general practice environment; providing the GP with guidelines on, for example, the types of exercise that are potentially beneficial/harmful in specific conditions.
Table of Contents
- Exercise: a historical perspective
- Benefits of exercise
- Promoting activity
- Background physiology
- Exercise for older people
- Children and exercise
- Treating minor injuries
- Emergencies
- Head injury
- Spine and neck injury
- Injuries of the upper limb
- Injuries of the abdomen, groin, hip and thigh
- Injuries of the lower leg
- Injuries of the foot
- Taping and injection
- The team doctor
- The doctor on tour
- Acclimatisation
- Outdoor and mountain pursuits
- Exercise and illness
- Dermatological problems
- Women and sport
- Diet and sport
- Drugs in sport, Appendix: useful addresses.
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