Living With Sports Injuries - Brossura

Clifford D. Stark, D. O. is medical director of sports medicine at Chelsea piers and a member of faculty at New York University Langone Medical Center and the Hospital for Joint Diseases, He earned a doctor of orthopedic medicine at the University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine in Kansas City, Missouri, and completed an internship at the Medical College of Virginia, Stark is board-certified by the American Board or Family Medicine and holds a certificate of added qualificatins in sports medicine. He has extensive sports medicine experience with high school, college Olympic, and professional athletes in multiple sports.
Elizabeth Shimer Bowers writes about health for books, magazines, and Web sites, She was the lead author on Natural Hormone Solutions and Natural Calm and has done writing and research for more than 25 other health books, including Preventions's Maximum immunity, Reader's Digest 1,801 Home Remedies, The Women Doctors' Guide to Health and Healing, and Don't Get Sick. Her articles have been published in Prevention, Runner's World, and Women's Health, among other periodicals, Bowers is also a copywriter and copy editor for Healthy Women.com

Each year, approximately 30 million students participate in organized sports in the United States, and an estimated 20 percent experience sports-related injuries. Sports injuries come in many forms, but they fall into two general categories: overuse injuries (caused by excessive stress on a muscle or bone) and acute injuries (caused by sudden trauma). "Living with Sports Injuries" provides a comprehensive overview of the causes and types of sports injuries, treatment and prevention, and more. Providing a crash course in sports injuries, this new book examines head and neck, shoulder, elbow, and hip injuries, and much more. Written in clear, straightforward language, this user-friendly book includes case studies and dramatized, real-life examples to illustrate the everyday impact of living with sports injuries.