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At The Highest Competitive Level, Particularly In Aquatic And Gymnastic Events, World Champions Are Emerging Whose Bodies Have Neither Finished Growing Nor Maturing. At Ordinary Competitive Levels, Individual And Team Events Are Becoming More Demanding Even For Children Under Ten. As Coaches And Trainers Push Their Charges Harder And Harder, The Need For A Responsible Approach To The Developing And Still-growing Athlete Becomes Even Greater. The First Section Of The Book Deals With Normal Growth And Development, And Also Covers The Development Of Strength, Power And Endurance In The Young Athlete. The Following Section Considers Athletic Training, In Particular Skill Acquisition And Trainability. There Follow Four Medically Oriented Sections On Injury Prevention, Treatment And Rehabilitation; Non-orthopaedic Health Matters; Psychosocial Issues; And On Problems Which The Young Athlete With Co-existing Disease Faces In Training And Competition. The Final Section Of The Book Describes Methods For Assessing Various Aspects Of Sports-related Physiological Data And For Monitoring Growth And Maturation In The Child And Adolescent Athlete. Trainers, Coaches, Therapists And Other Profession

Author

Oded Bar-Or; IOC Medical Commission; International Federation of Sports Medicine

Publisher

Oxford ; Cambridge, Mass., USA: Blackwell Science ; Champaign, Ill.: Distributors, Human Kinetics Books

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780865429048

Subjects

Medical, Nursing, Medicine