Author: Jim Clover
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Published: 2007-05-30
Total Pages: 736
ISBN-13: 9781401861858
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sports Medicine Essentials: Core Concepts in Athletic Training, Second Edition introduces students to potential careers in the Sports Medicine field, from Fitness Instructor to Athletic Trainer. This comprehensive text surveys a broad scope of knowledge related to the Sports Medicine field, encompassing fitness assessment, conditioning, emergency preparedness, injury management, therapeutic modalities, nutrition, ethical and legal considerations and much more. To help introduce students to an array of exciting careers, it features enrichment activities that include researching the cost of sports medicine supplies, demonstrate taping techniques, and the forming of a safety committee to devise a plan to minimize risk to a team, athletes or clients. This complete resource is a fantastic introduction for any program. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
Author: American College of Sports Medicine
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2013-03-22
Total Pages: 645
ISBN-13: 1469826577
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →ACSM’s Resources for the Personal Trainer provides a broad introduction to the field of personal training, covering both basic science topics and practical application. It was originally designed to help people prepare for the ACSM Personal Training Certification Exam. It continues to serve that function, but the market for it has expanded to practitioners in the field looking for an additional resource, as well as in an academic setting where the book is a core text for personal training programs.
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Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 598
ISBN-13: 9780781782913
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Developed by the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM), this book is designed to help people prepare for the NASM Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) Certification exam or learn the basic principles of personal training using NASM's Optimum Performance Training (OPT) model. The OPT model presents NASM's protocols for building stabilization, strength, and power. More than 600 full-color illustrations and photographs demonstrate concepts and techniques. Exercise color coding maps each exercise movement to a specific phase on the OPT model. Exercise boxes demonstrate core exercises and detail the necessary preparation and movement. Other features include research notes, memory joggers, safety tips, and review questions.
Author: Jim Clover
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Published: 2015-02-27
Total Pages: 768
ISBN-13: 9781133281245
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Correlating with NATA Standards, SPORTS MEDICINE ESSENTIALS: CORE CONCEPTS IN ATHLETIC TRAINING & FITNESS INSTRUCTION, 3rd Edition introduces essential skills in Sports Medicine, along with its growing number of career choices. Key topics address fitness assessment, conditioning, emergency preparedness, injury management, therapeutic modalities, nutrition, ethical and legal considerations, and much more. Students will explore careers in fitness instruction, athletic training, exercise physiology, sports management, and even physical therapy, while practicing important, job-related skills. More than a text, this unique hands-on learning tool asks students to perform essential skills, such as taping injuries, researching sports medicine supplies and their costs, and even forming a mock safety committee to mitigate injury risks to athletes. SPORTS MEDICINE ESSENTIALS: CORE CONCEPTS IN ATHLETIC TRAINING & FITNESS INSTRUCTION, 3rd Edition gives students VIP access to the fast-paced world of Sports Medicine in both print and interactive eBook formats. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
Author: American College of Sports Medicine
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a review manual for candidates wanting an ACSM credential. It combines content from 'ACSM's Health and Fitness Certification Review' and 'ACSM's Clinical Certification Review' into one resource.
Author: American College of Sports Medicine
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 1609136055
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The flagship title of the certification suite from the American College of Sports Medicine, ACSM's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription is a handbook that delivers scientifically based standards on exercise testing and prescription to the certification candidate, the professional, and the student. The 9th edition focuses on evidence-based recommendations that reflect the latest research and clinical information. This manual is an essential resource for any health/fitness and clinical exercise professional, physician, nurse, physician assistant, physical and occupational therapist, dietician, and health care administrator. This manual give succinct summaries of recommended procedures for exercise testing and exercise prescription in healthy and diseased patients.
Author: Ramon Hines
Publisher: Scientific e-Resources
Published: 2018-01-24
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 1839473797
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The phrase Sports Medicine is not specific to one career/profession. It instead, encompasses a group of professionals from various disciplines whose focus is the heath of an athlete. Athletes can be all ages and play on all different levels. A person interested in becoming an orthopedic sports medicine specialist must complete four years of medical school. After their undergraduate schooling is completed, training continues with a five-year residency in orthopedics. In order to sub-specialize, which is the case with an orthopedic sports medicine, another two to four years of training is required. This book is a practical guide to the field of sports science and the treatment of sports injuries. Written for students in sports science and medicine, trainees and specialists in sports medicine and related disciplines. The book presents the clinical management of both acute and chronic sports injuries and medical problems alongside the background and basic science of sports medicine. Hopefully the present book will be useful for the students of physical education and sports sciences and other related courses.
Author: Otto Appenzeller
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 509
ISBN-13: 9780806701431
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Fitness, training, injuries.
Author: American College of Sports Medicine
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2013-03-07
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 145111480X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This valuable new resource is specifically designed for candidates for the ACSM’s Certified Health Fitness Specialist (HFS) and those personal trainers wanting to take their knowledge to the next level. It contains the latest material on health and fitness written by the entity setting the standard for scientifically based practice, The American College of Sports Medicine. The American College of sports Medicine is the largest sports medicine and exercise science organization in the world. More than 45,000 members are dedicated to advancing and integrating scientific research to provide educational and practical applications of exercise science and sports medicine.