Sports Injuries and Prevention

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kanosue, Kazuyuki (Editor), Ogawa, Tetsuya (Editor), Fukano, Mako (Editor), Fukubayashi, Toru (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Health promotion.; Sports medicine.; Science education.; Biomedical engineering.; Medicine & Public Health.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.; Human Physiology.; Biomedical Engineering.; Sports Medicine.; Science Education.

This book presents the incidence of sports-related injuries, the types of injuries specific to particular sports, and the importance of factors such as age and gender. Possible injury mechanisms and risk factors are presented based on an analysis involving recent scientific findings. A variety of sp...