Sports Medicine Essentials

Sports medicine is the integration of sports science and medicine for the study of treatment and prevention of physical injuries related to sports such as knee injury, exercise-induced asthma, fractures, etc. Sports medicine though not a specialty in itself, is a vast field and is essential to the development of a number of significant areas of science such as sports nutrition, sports science, physiatry, etc. This book is a compilation of fundamental theories and concepts central to sports medicine and provides detailed information about the essential techniques and methods of the field. This book elucidates new techniques and their applications in a multidisciplinary approach. Sports medicine practitioners, experts, researchers and students who want to broaden the expanse of their knowledge will be greatly benefited by this book.