Extreme sports medicine. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Francesco Feletti, editor.
• Editors: Feletti, Francesco
• Contents: Part I. Medicine in extreme sports: 1Psychology and the extreme sports experience -- 2 Nutrition for extreme sports -- 3 Endocrine responses to extreme sports -- 4 Infectious diseases and extreme sports -- 5 Ocular problems in extreme sports: high altitude trekking and surfing -- 6 Extreme sports dermatology -- 7 Medical support for expedition-length adventure races -- 8 Emergency medicine in mountain sports: treatment of casualties in hostile environments -- 9 Drug abuse and doping in extreme sports. Part II. Injuries and illnesses in the most popular extreme sports: 10 Rock and ice climbing medicine -- 11. Alpine skiing and snowboarding: current trends and future directions -- 12 Extreme mountain biking injuries -- 13 Ultramarathon running: medical issues -- 14Skateboarding: accidents and injuries -- 15 BASE jumping and wingsuit flying: accidents and injuries, -- 16 Foot-launched flying: accidents and injuries. Hang gliding, paragliding, powered hang gliding and powered paragliding -- 17 Paragliding medicine -- 18 Kitesports medicine: Kite surfing, snow kiting and kite buggying -- 19 Injuries associated with skydiving -- 20 Surfing and skimboarding medicine -- 21 Windsurfing injuries -- 22 Extreme sailing injuries -- 23 White-water paddlesports medicine: canoeing, kayaking and rafting -- 24 Wakeboarding injuries. 25 Extreme scuba diving medicine. Part III. Prevention, training and rehabilitation: 26 Training and injury prevention strategies in extreme sports -- 27 An ecological dynamics framework for the acquisition of perceptual motor skills in climbing -- 28 Windsurfing: the physiology of athletic performance and training -- 29 Employment of near-infrared spectroscopy to assess the physiological determinants of hiking performance in single-handed dinghy sailors -- 30 Whole body vibration in extreme sports -- 31 Physiology and risk management of cold exposure -- 32 Helmets: technological innovations for safety -- 33 The eye in extreme sports: prevention, treatment and rehabilitation -- 34 Rehabilitation of extreme sports injuries -- 35 Legal issues related to extreme sports.
• Publisher Details: Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 617.1/027; Medicine; Sports injuries; Extreme sports -- Health aspects; Athletic Injuries; Risk-Taking; Sports Medicine -- methods; Sports; MEDICAL -- Sports Medicine; Sports injuries; Medical -- Orthopedics; Orthopaedics & fractures; Sports medicine; Orthopedics; Sports injuries & medicine; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319282657; 3319282654
• Related ISBNs: 9783319282633; 3319282638
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource, title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 25, 2016).
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