Pediatric Sports Medicine for the Practitioner: From Physiologic Principles to Clinical Applications

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Oded Bar-Or - Pediatric Sports Medicine for the Practitioner: From Physiologic Principles to Clinical Applications
Published: 1983-10-24 | ISBN: 1461255953, 0387908730 | PDF | 376 pages | 10 MB


Much knowledge has been generated in recent years by scientists investigating the triad: child-exercise-health. Yet little of this information is available in pediatric textbooks, for application by the clinician. This book is intended to bridge the resulting gap. Until the mid-1960's, exercise-related research focused on the young adult or the middle-aged individual. Recent years have witnessed a surge of interest among exercise scientists in the child and young adolescent. A major impetus for such interest has been the increasing involvement of children in advance-level athletics. Today's pre-adolescent athlete is often exposed to training regimens which only a decade ago were considered too demanding even for adult athletes. As a result, in such sports as gymnastics and swimming, for example, champions and record-holders are younger than ever before. In other sports, such as tennis, excellence is usually reached in the third decade but systematic training from childhood is a prerequisite. The emerging popularity of jogging and other recreational activities attracts participants of all ages. A few years ago, any long-distance running for children was discouraged. Today a 10-year-old child who completes a marathon race is no longer a novelty. But pediatric aspects of exercise-related research are by no means limited to the young athlete. The relevance of exercise to clinical pediatrics has been gaining increasing attention, be it in diagnosis, prevention, management or etiology. Pediatric clinics and exercise laboratories in various countries are now using exercise for diagnosis, or in clinical management, of several pediatric diseases.