INJURIES IN ATHLETICS:

"Over the past decade, the scientific information on psychology of injury has increased considerably. Despite dramatic advances in physical education of coaches, field of medicine, athletic training, and physical therapy, the sport-related traumatic injuries is our major concern. Athletic injuries, both single and multiple, have a tendency to grow dramatically. Accordingly, prevention of sport-related injuries is a major challenge facing the sport medicine world today. The purpose of this book is to accumulate the latest development in psychological analyses, evaluation, and management of sport-related injuries, including traumatic brain injuries. No two traumatic injuries are alike in mechanism, symptoms, or symptoms resolution. There is still no agreement upon psychological diagnosis and there is no known comprehensive treatment for sport-related injuries for regaining pre-injury status. Physical symptoms resolution is not an indication of "psychological trauma" resolution."

Foundations of Injury in Athletics.- Classification of Injuries in Athletics.- Science of Training and Injury in Athletics.- Balance as a Risk Factor for Athletic Injuries.- Fatigue-Related Injuries in Athletes.- Nutrition as a Risk Factor for Injury in Elite Athletes.- Coaches and Athletes' Perspectives of Injury.- Injury in Athletics: Coaches' Point of View.- Injury from Athletes' Perspectives.- Interviews with Injured Athletes.- Overuse Injuries: Students' Points of View.- Fitness Assessment in Athletes.- Psychological Traumas in Athletes.- Psychological Trauma: Unfortunate Experience in Athletics.- Fear as Adaptive or Maladaptive Form of Emotional Response.- Fear of Injury, Kinesiophobia & Perceived Risk.- Multiple Facets of Pain due to Injury.- Psychological Trauma: Case Studies.- Psychological Trauma: Age & Gender Factors.- Concussion in Athletes.- Concussion: Why Bother?.- Concussion Classification: Historical Perspectives and Current Trends.- Evaluation of Concussion: Signs and Symptoms.- Traumatic Brain Injuries in Children.- Injury Rehabilitation.- Integrated Injury Rehabilitation.- EEG & Neurofeedback in Rehabilitation.- Virtual Reality in Injury Rehabilitation.