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Epidemiology of Injury in Olympic Sports

ISBN: 978-1-444-31688-9

September 2009

Wiley-Blackwell

536 pages

Description
This new volume in the Encyclopaedia of Sports Medicine series, published under the auspices of the International Olympic Committee, provides a state-of-the- art account of the epidemiology of injury across a broad spectrum of Olympic sports. The book uses the public health model in describing the scope of the injury problem, the associated risk factors, and in evaluating the current research on injury prevention strategies described in the literature.

Epidemiology of Injury in Olympic Sports comprehensively covers what is known about the distribution and determinants of injury and injury rates in each sport. The editors and contributors have taken an evidence-based approach and adopted a uniform methodology to assess the data available. Each chapter is illustrated with tables which make it easy to examine injury factors between studies within a sport and between sports.

With contributions from internationally renowned experts, this is an invaluable reference book for medical doctors, physical therapists and athletic trainers who serve athletes and sports teams, and for sports medicine scientists and healthcare professionals who are interested in the epidemiological study of injury in sports.  

About the Author
Dennis Caine, PhD, Western Washington University; Peter Harmer, PhD, MPH, Willamette University (Salem, Oregon); Melissa Schiff, MD, MPH, Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, Seattle (all U.S.A.)
Features
Reviews the distribution and determinants of injury in Olympic sports

Each sport-specific chapter provides information on the incidence and characteristics of injury, injury outcome, injury risk factors and inciting events, and injury prevention and further research

Part of the Encyclopaedia of Sports Medicine series, published in collaboration with the Medical Commission of the International Olympic Committee

Shows how the health of athletes can be protected by highlighting key research findings and their practical application