Living With Sports Injuries (Teen's Guides) By Clifford D. Stark
Publisher: Facts on File 2010 | 202 Pages | ISBN: 0816078483 | File type: PDF | 10 mb
Each year, approximately 30 million students participate in organized sports in the United States, and an estimated 20 percent experience sports-related injuries. Sports injuries come in many forms, but they fall into two general categories: overuse injuries (caused by excessive stress on a muscle or bone) and acute injuries (caused by sudden trauma). "Living with Sports Injuries" provides a comprehensive overview of the causes and types of sports injuries, treatment and prevention, and more. Providing a crash course in sports injuries, this new book examines head and neck, shoulde