Overview: Offers an up-to-date overview of injuries epidemiology in 24 different sports.Provides useful preventive information for each discipline.Joint effort of 100 international experts.This concise yet comprehensive book covers epidemiology of injuries in 24 different sports ranging from football, volleyball, athletics, to less explored ones, like archery and Formula 1. For each discipline the authors present and analyze the sport’s main characteristics, physiological and biomechanical demands on athletes, epidemiology of injuries, prevention strategies, rehabilitation and return to play.
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