Catastrophic Injury In High School And College Sport (Hk Sport Science Monograph Series, V. 8) - Softcover

Mueller, Frederick; Cantu, Robert; Van Camp, Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0873226747 ISBN 13: 9780873226745

Publisher: Human Kinetics, 1995

Synopsis

Catastrophic Injuries in High School and College Sports provides extensive recommendations for reducing catastrophic injuries, preventing deaths in athletic programs, and making sports safer and more enjoyable.

Data compiled for the first time in one convenient source, this timely resource is based on results of more than 10 years of study by the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research. The authors discuss what types of injuries are most prevalent, who sustains the injuries, and why and where they occur. Unlike most of the material available in this area, Catastrophic Injuries in High School and College Sports includes both men's and women's individual and team sports.

The authors bring reality to the statistics by presenting case reports of catastrophic injuries at the high school and college level. Readers will learn

- how head and spine injuries occur;
- the frequency and causes of deaths in athletes;
- catastrophic injury data in football;
- how injuries are sustained in team sports--soccer, basketball, ice hockey, baseball, and lacrosse;
- the incidence of injuries in individual sports--gymnastics, swimming, wrestling, track and field, and cheerleading; and
- general guidelines for injury prevention as well as sport-specific recommendations.

Each chapter concludes with helpful references and tables of relevant statistics.

Catastrophic Injuries in High School and College Sports is the eighth volume in the HK Sport Science Monograph Series.

About this title

About the Author:

Frederick O. Mueller is director of the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research located at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mueller has been active since 1968 in research on athletic injury, and his contributions have helped to significantly reduce the number of football fatalities and paralyzing injuries and to make sports safer for all participants.

Mueller has written more than 75 articles on sport safety, edited Prevention of Athletic Injuries—a book on sports medicine and injury reduction, and presented his findings at national and international sport safety meetings. Mueller, who earned a PhD in Education/Physical Education in 1970 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is a member of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), the American Football Coaches Association, and the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD).

Robert C. Cantu, MD, is past president of the American College of Sports Medicine and medical director of the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research. He has authored more than 180 scientific works, including 14 books on neurology and sports medicine, numerous book chapters, scholarly articles, and video programs. He is an associate editor of Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise and Exercise and Sports Science Reviews as well as on the editorial boards of The Physician and Sportsmedicine and Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine.

Cantu earned a master's degree in endocrinology in 1962 and an MD in 1963 from the University of California Medical School in San Francisco. A member of more than 25 professional organizations, including ACSM and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, he is vice president of the National Operating Committee for Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE).

Cantu serves as chief neurosurgeon and director of sports medicine at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts.

Steven P. Van Camp, MD, president of the ACSM, is a cardiologist in private practice in San Diego and medical director of both the Alvarado Hospital Medical Center's Cardiac Rehabilitation Program and San Diego State University's Exercise Physiology Laboratory and Adult Fitness Program.

Having researched exercise-related sudden death since 1981, Van Camp has written numerous articles and book chapters on the topic. He is on the editorial boards of both Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise and The Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness. He also has been a reviewer for The New England Journal of Medicine, The American Journal of Cardiology, and The Physician and Sportsmedicine. Van Camp lectures around the world on nontraumatic sports death and the cardiovascular aspects of sports medicine.

Van Camp earned an MD from the UCLA School of Medicine in 1971. He is a Fellow of the ACSM, the American College of Cardiology, and the American Heart Association Council of Clinical Cardiology.

About this edition

• Publisher: Human Kinetics
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0873226747
• ISBN 13: 9780873226745
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120