Sports Medicine: It's Environmental
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-84492-8 (ISBN)
This book serves as an essential quick reference for team physicians, focusing on the risks associated with athletic participation in various environments. It covers a wide range of environmental challenges, including heat, cold, UV exposure, bad weather such as lightning and hurricanes, mountainous and high-altitude conditions, wet and isolated environments, crowded mass sporting events, dangerous situations, contagious diseases, indoor settings, and polluted air and water quality.
The book follows a consistent structure to facilitate easy cross-referencing, including clinical pearls for identifying environment-related injuries or diseases, recommended initial treatment responses, and guidelines for extraction from pathological environments. The reader will find each chapter featuring learning objectives and key reading references.
This practical manual offers the reader an essential tool to navigate the complexities of environmental medicine in sports, ensuring the health and safety of athletes in any setting.
Mark Hutchinson is a distinguished professor of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he has served as Head Team
Physician for 30 years. He has serve as team and event physician for numerous national governing bodies in both indoor and outdoor sports and has served as event physician to various multisport events including Pan American Games, winter and summer World University Games, winter and summer Paralympic Games and winter and summer Olympic Games.
Sérgio Rocha Piedade is Associate Professor of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine at the University of Campinas - UNICAMP from Campinas /São Paulo, Brazil. He is the former Head of the Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Traumatology, and Coordinator of Exercise and Sports Medicine at the School of Medical Sciences of the same University. He has extensive experience in the field of exercise and sports medicine, orthopaedic trauma and knee surgery, and holds a specialist degree in Orthopaedics and Traumatology. and in Sports Medicinfrom the Brazilian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, and a Master's Degree in Surgery and Sports Medicine and a PhD in Surgery from UNICAMP. He is the former Chairperson of ISAKOS Sports Medicine Committee and currently the President of the Brazilian Society of Orthopaedic and Traumatology - Chapter São Paulo/Brazil and Coordinator of the Department of Sports Medicine of Campinas Society of Medicine and Surgery.
1. Introduction and Overview of Environmental Medicine in Sport.- 2. It's Hot.- 3. It's Cold.- 4. It's Sunny and Bright (UV exposure).- 5. It's Cloudy and Bad Weather (Lightning, Tornados, Hurricane).- 6. It's Rugged and Isolated (Mountain, Altitude).- 7. It's Wet and Isolated.- 8. It's Crowded (mass sporting events).- 9. It's Dangerous.- 10. It's Contagious (endemic and pandemic disease).- 11. It's Indoors.- 12. It's Polluted. (air and water quality).
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.04.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | VIII, 177 p. 46 illus., 43 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Sportmedizin |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Studium | |
| Schlagworte | athletic training • Cold Injuries • Environmental Exposure • environmental risk • Heat injuries • Lightning and weather • Sun and UV exposure |
| ISBN-10 | 3-031-84492-0 / 3031844920 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-031-84492-8 / 9783031844928 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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