Women's Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation

As the amounts of girls and ladies participating in sports and use continue to increase, health care professionals are recognizing sports-related health problems and injuries more often. In order to effectively assess and treat not just highly competitive female athletes, but additionally active and athletic women generally, health care professionals must realize women's unique needs and also the anatomical, physiological, psychological, and sociological differences between genders. Aspen Publishers, Inc. thus remains proud introducing this in-depth resource made to address the particular health care needs and injury management considerations from the female athlete.

Women's Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation may be the first female-specific sports medicine and rehabilitation book. It concentrates on medical treatment, rehabilitation, prevention, and wellness. Led to by a stellar number of mostly women practitioners with knowledge of caring for female athletes, it introduces your reader to women's sports participation, details injury management issues by anatomical region, discusses the requirements of active women over the lifespan, and emphasizes the significance of preventative sports medicine.

Special features include:

• A foreword by Donna Lopiano, executive director from the Women's Sports Foundation

• A practical perspective of damage rehabilitation unique to female athletes

• Clinical guidelines and management strategies specific to girls and ladies

• An search for the needs of younger, older, pregnant, and disabled female athletes

• Chapters addressing medical and drug abuse issues of female athletes

• Current information about hormonal cycles, bone health, and also the Female Athlete Triad

• Psychology, nutrition, and social factors which affect health, recovery, and gratifaction

• An appendix of workplace injuires specific to womenís sport or athletic activity

This book is a vital practical tool for those sports medicine and rehabilitation providers who treat girls and ladies and require essential gender-specific knowledge about the assessment and management of athletic injuries. Physical fitness professionals including physicians, physician assistants, nurses, physiotherapists, sports nutritionists, recreational therapists, exercise physiologists, kinesiologists, athletic trainers, coaches, and private trainers will gain new understanding of the differences between women and men and how these differences affect healthy sports participation and recovery post-injury.