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Care of the Young Athlete

  • Author: American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Sports Medicine; Harris, Sally S.; Anderson, Steven J.
  • Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics
  • ISBN: 9781581103045
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781581104233
  • eISBN Epub: 9781581106909
  • Place of publication:  Illinois , United States
  • Year of publication: 2009
  • Year of digital publication: 2009
  • Month: August
  • Pages: 612
  • Language: English

This best-selling resource gives you an easy-to-use, one-stop guide to all aspects of childhood sports preparation, participation, and injury treatment. 

The newly enhanced and updated second edition covers safety and risk-management considerations; procedural how-to's for the preparticipation physical examination; the latest treatment recommendations on proper nutrition for athletes; proven injury prevention guidelines; detailed treatments for dozens of injuries; and more.

Topics have been selected to reflect the health and safety issues most likely to be encountered by primary care practitioners. Numerous color photos and illustrations bring the authoritative text to life. 

New in the 2nd edition!

  • New Bonus full-color symptom locator poster
  • All-new chapters on nutrition and weight control; performance-enhancing substances; risks of injury during sports participation; acute and overuse shoulder injuries
  • Important new findings on issues specific to the female athlete

Contents include:

  • Assessing physical and emotional readiness for athletic participation
  • Effects of training and competition on child development
  • Nutrition, weight loss, and performance-enhancing substances
  • Athletic participation for physically challenged children
  • Evaluation and treatment of both medical and musculoskeletal injuries
  • Guidelines for returning to athletics after injury
  • Recommendations for specialty referral
  • Table of Contents
  • Foreword, by Dick Howard
  • Editors' Introduction, by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Nicole Jerr
  • Part I. Stages
    • 1. Sad Stories of the Death of Kings: Sovereignty and Its Constraints in Greek Tragedy and Elsewhere, by Glenn W. Most
    • 2. Contested Sovereignty: Heaven, the Monarch, the People, and the Intellectuals in Traditional China, by Yuri Pines
    • 3. Nurhaci's Gambit: Sovereignty as Concept and Praxis in the Rise of the Manchus, by Nicola Di Cosmo
    • 4. The Living Image of the People, by Jason Frank
  • Part II. Courts
    • 5. Public Health, the State, and Religious Scholarship: Sovereignty in Idrīs al-Bidlīsī's Arguments for Fleeing the Plague, by Justin Stearns
    • 6. The Dancing Despot: Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the Performative Symbolism of Power, by Stanca Scholz-Cionca
    • 7. Liberal Constitutionalism and the Sovereign Pardon, by Bernadette Meyler
    • 8. The Vanishing Slaves of Paris: The Lettre de Cachet and the Emergence of an Imperial Legal Order in Eighteenth-Century France, by Miranda Spieler
    • 9. Re-touching the Sovereign: Biochemistry of Perpetual Leninism, by Alexei Yurchak
  • Part III. Acts
    • 10. Hijra and Exile: Islam and Dual Sovereignty in Qing China, by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
    • 11. The Neurology of Regicide: Decapitation Experiments and the Science of Sovereignty, by Cathy Gere
    • 12. The "Millennium" of 1857: The Last Performance of the Great Mughal, by A. Azfar Moin
    • 13. Exit the King? Modern Theater and the Revolution, by Nicole Jerr
  • Part IV. Shifts
    • 14. Revolution in Permanence and the Fall of Popular Sovereignty, by Dan Edelstein
    • 15. Exile Within Sovereignty: Critique of "The Negation of Exile" in Israeli Culture, by Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin
    • 16. Affective Sovereignty, International Law, and China's Legal Status in the Nineteenth Century, by Li Chen
    • 17. The Sovereignty of the New Man After Wagner: Artist and Hero, Symbolic History, and the Staging of Origins, by Stefanos Geroulanos
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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    • Loan duration: 21 days
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