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Running Injuries: How to Prevent and Overcome Them - Softcover

Noakes, Tim; Granger, Stephen

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9780195713848: Running Injuries: How to Prevent and Overcome Them
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0195713842 ISBN 13: 9780195713848
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1996

Synopsis

This book has earned its place as an invaluable hand-book of injury prevention and treatment for all runners--whether they are elite athletes, twice-a-week joggers, athletes at school level, or those who run mainly to build fitness for other sports. Fully updated in the Second Edition, this popular and well-established book offers the latest medical research, tips on injury prevention, injury profiles of international and South African athletes, medical drawings to help you locate and understand your injury, photographic demonstrations of stretching exercises, and a glossary on commonly used terms used when discussing running injuires. It is an indispensable guide for coaches, parents, and doctors.

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About the Author

Tim Noakes is Liberty Life Professor of Exercise and Sports Science at the University of Cape Town. He is also Director of the MRC/UCT Bioenergetics of Exercise Research Unit and Professor in the Department of Pysiology. Stephen Granger, formerly a competitive road and cross-country athelete, is an environmental scientist who is also a free-lance athletics writer and photographer of high repute.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
1996
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0195713842
ISBN 13 
9780195713848
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
2
Number of pages
176
Rating
  • 3.89 out of 5 stars
    9 ratings by Goodreads