Kinesiology and Applied Health

The Encyclopedia of Sports Medicine describes all aspects of the field with perspectives, concepts, and methods from the medical, behavioral, and social sciences and physical education. Key Features: includes contributions from preeminent healthcare professionals who are renowned experts; presents a broad spectrum of entries covering a variety of key topics, a glossary, and two appendices; contains more than 550 tables and images, including anatomical drawings, X-rays, and MRI scans; illustrates selected diagnostic and treatment techniques step-by-step with more than 200 photographs; ands offers an in-depth examination of the various career opportunities in this area, including orthopedists, athletic trainers, sports psychologists, and nutritionists.

Searchable database of information taken from Michael Kent's Food and fitness. Includes information on dites, exercise, supplements and nutrition.

Covers terminology used in exercise psychology, sports nutrition, biomechanics, anatomy, sports sociology, training principles and techniques and sports injury and rehabilitation. This dictionary will be helpful for students, coaches, athletes and anyone wanting instant access to the scientific principles, anatomical structures, and physiological, sociological and psychological processes that affect sporting performance. It will also be of interest to the general reader interested in sports science and medicine terminology.

Covers topics on physiology and fitness, including coverage of Healthy People 2010/2020, the nationwide initiative sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to improve the nation's health, as well as topics on diseases and conditions related to fitness.

Entries explore the theory, research, and application of psychology as it relates to sport and fitness in a manner that is accessible and jargon-free to help readers better understand human behavior in sport and exercise settings.