Basketball: olympic handbook of sports medicine

Basketball is a further volume in the Handbook of Sports Medicine ad Science Series, published under the auspices of the International Olympic Committee. It represents the most complete approach to the sport of basketball and its injuries yet published.

This Handbook covers the epidemiology of basketball injury, the physiological demands of basketball, nutritional requirements, preventive medicine, preparticipation examination, and special considerations given to the young groups such as diabetics, asthmatics, and epileptics.

Basketball is presented in a very practical manner to provide a 'one stop reference source on the sport of basketball for use by physicians, trainers, and coaches in the care of their athletes.

Foreword by the IOC.

Foreword by the FIBA.

Preface.

Introduction.

1 Epidemiology of basketball injuries.

2 Physiology of basketball.

3 Nutrition guidelines for basketball.

4 Preventive medicine in basketball.

5 Preparticipation screening and the basketball player.

6 The young basketball player.

7 The female athlete.

8 The special basketball player.

9 Psychological issues in basketball.

10 Basketball injuries: head and face.

11 Cardiovascular considerations in basketball.

12 Medical illness.

13 Spine and pelvis.

14 Basketball injuries: upper extremity considerations.

15 Lower extremity considerations.

Index