Skip to main content
View Cart

Books in Sports science

This portfolio covers biomechanics, sports medicine, nutrition, and performance optimization. Supporting sports scientists, coaches, and clinicians, it features cutting-edge research, injury prevention strategies, and training methodologies to enhance athletic performance and health.

  • Bewegung, Sport und Mind-Body-Intervention

    Psychische Gesundheit und psychische Krankheit
    • 1st Edition
    • October 16, 2024
    • Andreas Ströhle + 1 more
    • German
    Die Bedeutung von Sport und Bewegung für die psychische Gesundheit ist weithin anerkannt. Neben primär körperlichen Aktivitätsformen werden vermehrt Interventionen der Mind-Body-Medizin eingesetzt, um gezielter der Verknüpfung von Körper und Geist gerecht zu werden.Kompakt und praxisnah werden für die wichtigsten psychiatrischen Symptombereiche und Erkrankungen – u.a. affektive Störungen, Angst- und Zwangsstörungen, PTBS, ADHS, Substanzgebrauchsstö... – klinische Informationen und Anwendungsmöglichkei... körperlicher Aktivität dargestellt:Symptoma... Diagnosekriterien (nach ICD-10 und ICD-11) und Maßnahmen der Pharmako- und PsychotherapieVersch... Anwendungsbereiche körperlicher Aktivität – u.a. in Kombination mit Primärbehandlungen sowie als eigenständige InterventionStellenw... körperlicher Aktivität bei der Entstehung, Aufrechterhaltung und Behandlung der jeweiligen Erkrankung inklusive störungsspezifischer BesonderheitenKonkre... Handlungsempfehlunge... und AnwendungsbeispieleE... für alle Fachkräfte aus den Bereichen Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik, Sport- und Bewegungstherapie, Physiotherapie, Allgemeinmedizin und Pflege – sowie für alle anderen am Thema interessierten Menschen.

  • Bewegungstherapie bei Adipositas und metabolischem Syndrom

    • 1st Edition
    • March 5, 2024
    • Till Hasenberg + 1 more
    • German
    Das Buch liefert Ihnen umfassendes theoretisches und praktisches Wissen. Im theoretischen Teil erfahren Sie:alles über Pathologie, Klassifikation und FolgeerkrankungenBeh... bei AdipositasWirkmechan... von körperlicher BewegungAufbau und Inhalt zielgruppenspezifisc... TrainingsprogrammeHe... red flags und RisikomanagementDer praktische Teil stellt Ihnen die verschiedenen Übungen eindrucksvoll in Wort und Bild vor.Sie erfahren, worauf Sie achten müssen und was häufige Fehler in der unterstützenden Adipositastherapie sind.Das Buch eignet sich für:Ärzte und Ärztinnen mit Zusatzbezeichnung SportmedizinSportwis... in Vorsorge- u. RehaeinrichtungenFac... Allgemeinmedizin, Innere Medizin

  • ESSA’s Student Manual for Health, Exercise and Sport Assessment

    • 2nd Edition
    • August 1, 2020
    • Jeff S. Coombes + 1 more
    • English
    ESSA’s Student Manual for Health, Exercise and Sport assessment is an essential text for students and exercise clinicians wishing to accredit with ESSA as exercise scientists. Written by former ESSA President Jeff Coombes and clinical exercise physiologist Tina Skinner, this book provides everything students need to achieve competency in ESSA Standard 7, Health Exercise and Sport Assessment. It contains in-depth and well-articulated methodology for all tests, data recording tables and normative values, and case study analyses. Each of the 21 chapters addresses key health and fitness assessments used to evaluate health, fitness and performance. With easy-to-follow practicals throughout, this book has been updated to reflect current best practice and recent advances such as wearable devices and smartphone apps.

  • ESSA’s Student Manual for Exercise Prescription, Delivery and Adherence

    • 1st Edition
    • November 15, 2019
    • Jeff S. Coombes + 2 more
    • English
    Endorsed by Exercise & Sports Science Australia (ESSA) ESSA is a professional organisation which is committed to establishing, promoting and defending the career paths of tertiary trained exercise and sports science practitioners. s ESSA’s Student Manual for Exercise Prescription, Delivery and Adherence is a unique text that covers not only how to write and deliver exercise programs, but also how to support and enable people to stick to them for better health and wellbeing. Expert academic authors Jeff Coombes, Nicola Burton and Emma Beckman have precisely mapped the contents to Australian essential professional standards, making this text suitable for students of all ESSA-accredited degree and postgraduate courses wanting to gain accreditation in exercise science and exercise physiology. The text combines theory and practical exercises to boost competency and confidence. It covers everything students need to know, from required foundational knowledge of biomechanics, functional anatomy, physiology and associated psychology and how to apply that to create, deliver, and support safe and effective exercise.

  • The Comprehensive Textbook of Clinical Biomechanics

    with access to e-learning course [formerly Biomechanics in Clinic and Research]
    • 2nd Edition
    • March 29, 2018
    • Jim Richards
    • English
    ALL-ENCOMPASSING and EXPANDED, now covering the WHOLE BODY (lower quadrant PLUS upper quadrant and spine) – The Comprehensive Textbook of Clinical Biomechanics (formerly Biomechanics in Clinic and Research) presents the latest research in a form which is accessible, practical, thorough and up-to-the minute.

  • Sports-Related Injuries of the Meniscus, An Issue of Clinics in Sports Medicine

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 31-1
    • December 15, 2011
    • Peter R Kurzweil
    • English
    This issue of Clinics in Sports Medicine, Guest Edited by Peter R. Kurzweil, MD, focuses on Sports-Related Injuries of the Meniscus. Articles in this issue will include: Indications for meniscus repair: traumatic tears do better; Biologic enhancement of meniscal repair; Repairing the Unrepairable Meniscus; Posterior Horn Tears – all-inside suture repair; Meniscal Repair – Inside-out sutures; Meniscal Root tears – Recognizing and Repairing; Meniscal Repair – outside-in suture; Meniscal Repair with the Newest Fixators – which are best?; Treating post-meniscectomy pain with Meniscal implants; Meniscus Repair in Children; and Getting Athletes Back to Sports after Meniscus Repair.

  • Performance Psychology

    A Practitioner's Guide
    • 1st Edition
    • January 25, 2011
    • David John Collins + 2 more
    • English
    Performance Psychology: A Practitioner's Guide is a comprehensive, evidence-based text covering the key aspects of performance culture: performer development, preparation, training and execution. Written by a team of international contributors, including national coaches, training specialists, applied sports psychologists, clinicians and researchers, and building on strong links between theory and practice, the book shows how applied psychological methods and principles can be used to enhance performance Contributing authors offer clear implications for applied practice and each section is summarized by contributions from a 'Performers Panel'of experts who provide real-life practical examples. Performance psychology is applied to a wide variety of physical performance domains which enables practitioners to see how they can combine ideas and tailor interventions, to people and contexts, to produce effective applications of psychology. Dave Collins is Professor of Performance and Coaching/Director for the Institute of Coaching and Performance at the University of Central Lancashire. As a practitioner, he has worked with over 50 World and Olympic medalists, and in professional performance domains spanning sport, business, motor sport, music, dance and adventure. He was formerly Performance Director of UK Athletics, a rugby player, martial artist and OE instructor. Dave currently works with the Chelsea FC Football Academy, amongst other consultancies. Angela Button is a researcher at the University of Otago and is widely acknowledged as a world expert on talent. Angela has led funded research projects in talent development in the UK and New Zealand. Her sporting interests include squash, running and triathlon. Hugh Richards lectures and is Director of post-graduate programmes in Performance Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. He has published in the areas of coping, talent, individual differences and professional development related to sport, the military and music. Hugh has applied psychology to professional performers from international level sport to business. He currently works with the UK Motor Sport Association, international performer development schemes and has been advisor to the BBC on learning and performance.

  • Sports Coaching

    Professionalisation and Practice
    • 1st Edition
    • June 29, 2010
    • John Lyle + 1 more
    • English
    Sports Coaching: Professionalisation and Practice is a comprehensive evidence-based textbook of sports coaching theory and practice. The book is edited by leading academics in sports coaching studies and authored by a world-renowned team of experts in sports coaching research. It deals with all aspects of coaching behaviour and practice, including coaches’ decision making, coaching pedagogy, and the development of expertise. Each of the chapters provides an up-to-date position statement on coaching themes, and makes explicit reference to the professionalisation of coaching. Written in an accessible style, and identifying critical ideas and issues, the book will complement and challenge both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching programmes, and will be an invaluable source of ideas for researchers and academics.

  • Sports Emergencies

    Management Scenarios
    • 1st Edition
    • May 20, 2010
    • John M. O'Byrne + 1 more
    • English
    The big concern for all Physicians, even in lower profile sporting events, is that they will encounter sport emergencies. The two primary concerns is that there will be mis-management of: a life-threatening situation a limb-threatening situation In order to allay these anxieties and fears, people attend courses from time to time. However, there is no easily accessible manual or guide that can be scanned before the game, or even during the emergency.What is special about this book is that it is a manual with clear instructions on what to do in a given sports emergency. There are clear instructions on what to do, and, just as importantly, what not to do. Each chapter has a diagrammatic or photographic series of steps that must be taken, accompanied by clear instructions.

  • Exercise Physiology in Special Populations

    Advances in Sport and Exercise Science
    • 1st Edition
    • August 14, 2008
    • John P. Buckley
    • Neil Spurway
    • English
    Exercise Physiology in Special Populations covers the prevalent health conditions that are either linked to an inactive lifestyle or whose effects can be ameliorated by increasing physical activity and physical fitness. The book explores physiological aspects of obesity and diabetes before moving on to cardiac disease, lung disease, arthritis and back pain, ageing and older people, bone health, the female participant, neurological and neuromuscular disorders, and spinal chord injury. The author team includes many of the UK’s leading researchers and exercise science and rehabilitation practitioners that specialise in each of the topic areas.New to the popular Advances in Sport and Exercise Science series, this book covers key aspects of exercise physiology including: •Coronary Heart Disease & Cardiac Dysfunction •Neurological disorders (Strokes, Parkinson’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Head Injury) •Spinal cord injuries •Obesity & Diabetes •Amputees •Downs syndrome •Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease •Musculo-rheumatolog... disorders and pain •Bone Health •Older People •HIV/Aids •The female exercise participant