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The Bible for Athletic Trainers and Coaches...
As a coach, it's very important to know what to do in the event an athlete gets hurt.Since there aren't enough Trainers to go around, I decided to learn as much as I could about acute athletic care.Several Physical Therapists and Athletic Trainers recommended this book to me, and I mustsay, it's every bit as helpful as they said it would be.It givesstep-by-step instructions, excellent diagrams, and great prevention tipssince it is, technically, a textbook.The only thing more helpful thanthis book on the sidelines or in the dugouts is MAYBE an ice-pack.Everycoach should read this book, study this book, and keep this book close byduring practice and game-time.I highly recommend it. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Athletic Training And Conditioning    2. Health/Fitness    3. Prevention    4. Sports Medicine    5. Sports injuries    6. Exercise & workout books   

Subjects:  1. General    2. Health/Fitness    3. Pediatrics    4. Sociology    5. Paediatric medicine    6. Pain & pain management    7. Trauma & shock   

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Cases in Sucessful Preventive Medicine - Injury Control
Injuries; unintentional, suicidal and homicidal; remain the leading cause of years of life lost and of disability for children, and a leading problem for the elderly in the United States. Cases in successful preventive medicine- injury control
Injuries; non-intentional , suicidal or homicidal; remain the leading cause of years of life lost and of disability for children, and the aged, in the United States. Traumatic episodes involving burns from hot waterheater related scalds , conflagrations and chemical and heat injuriesassociated with dropped lit cigarettes, near- and drownings aroundimproperly or non-existant unfenced nor gated home swimming pools, andeasily available and non-safety packagedguns involved in firearmsepisodes are examples of thousands of annually preventable consumer productrelated injuries and deaths. And yet, aside from many books on thestatistics and epidemiologyof injury , or descriptive or analyticalreports with normative recommendations for action,there are few thatillustrate, as does Political Approaches to Injury Control at the StateLevel, the " how to's" for successful legislative and advocacyapproaches so effective in the history of public health and medicalleadership, especially in childhood disease.Read more

Subjects:  1. Accidents    2. Congresses    3. Consumer Health    4. Government policy    5. Health/Fitness    6. Prevention    7. Public Health Law    8. Safety    9. Safety regulations    10. States    11. United States    12. Wounds and injuries   

Subjects:  1. Back    2. Back Pain    3. Backache    4. General    5. Health/Fitness    6. Industrial Medicine    7. Medical / Nursing    8. Prevention    9. Surgery - General    10. Wounds and injuries    11. Orthopaedics & fractures    12. Other Branches of Medicine   

Subjects:  1. Electric Injuries    2. Electricity    3. Electricity in medicine    4. General    5. Health/Fitness    6. Medical / Nursing    7. Medical Instrumentation    8. Safety measures    9. prevention & control   

Subjects:  1. Health and hygiene    2. Health/Fitness    3. Industrial Health & Safety    4. Medical personnel    5. Occupational diseases    6. Prevention    7. Technology & Industrial Arts    8. Wounds and injuries   

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Subjects:  1. Exercise    2. Physical fitness    3. Prevention    4. Sports injuries   

Subjects:  1. Australia    2. Epidemiology    3. General    4. Health & Fitness    5. Industrial & Organizational Psychology    6. Medical misconceptions    7. Overuse injuries    8. Psychology    9. Science/Mathematics    10. Social aspects    11. Work-Related Health   

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Excellent sourcebook on reducing injury by firearms.
Trudy A. Karlson & Stephen W. Hargarten.Reducing Firearm Injury and Death: A Public Health Sourcebook on Guns.1997.xix +172pp. $24.95 (paper). propaganda masquerading as science
Dr. Hargarten, a gun prohibition activist best known for his discredited "food processor through flesh" wound ballistics, has authored a propaganda piece that masquerades as science. Hargarten relies on the publications of other activists and advocacy "researchers" whose work has been throughly discredited in the scientific criminolgic literature. (Better you should rely upon Gary Kleck's meticulous book, Targeting Guns: Firearms and their Control", Aldine, 1997.) Among the flaws in the public health literature upon which Hargarten relies are: Failure to distinguish technically sound from inept studies, inconsistent application of scholarly standards, using speculation to rebut empirical evidence, omission of data or studies with unsupportive findings, pretending that evidence is worthless if it is not perfect, statistical legerdemain, failure to address relevant, contradictory studies; [1,2,3,4,5,6] habitual citation of sources for support when the sources were actually non-supportive; [1(at citations 2 and 15-17), 2(at citation 12), 3(at citation 7)] citation of sources for non-existent statistics;[5 (at citations 11 &13)] citation of sources for a proposition not studied by the sources;[2(at citations 10,12,14,15)] failure to address possible confusion between cause and effect;[3] use of small, unrepresentative, non-probability convenience samples improperly generalized to large populations;[1] the use of simplistic models that fail to control for complicating factors;[3] unawareness of valid measures of gun availability or the limitations of those measures;[3] illogically studying how often gun owners conceal their ownership by studying a sample of only those who have revealed their gun ownership;[4] "adjusting" the study sample to buttress a foregone conclusion;[2] prejudicially truncated data;[5] non-sequitur logic;[5] and characterization of lawful self-defense as "murder."[6] Do not waste your money on this propaganda. Edgar A. Suter MD, National Chair, Doctors for Integrity in Policy Research Inc. [1]Kellermann AL, Rivara FP, Rushforth NB et al. "Gun ownership as a risk factor for homicide in the home." N Engl J Med. 1993; 329(15): 1084-91. [2]Kellermann AL, Rivara FP, Somes G, et al. Suicide in the home in relationship to Gun Ownership. N Engl J Med. 1992; 327: 467-72. [3] Sloan JH, Kellermann AL, Reay DT, et al. "Handgun Regulations, Crime,Assaults, and Homicide: A Tale of Two Cities." N Engl J Med 1988; 319: 1256-62. [4] Kellermann AL, Rivara FP, Banton J, Reay D, Fligner CL "Validating survey responses to questions about gun ownership owners of registered handguns." Am J Epidemiol. 1990; 131(6):1080-4 [5] Kellermann AL. and Reay DT. "Protection or Peril? An Analysis of Firearms-Related Deaths in the Home." N Engl J. Med 1986. 314: 1557-60 [6] Kellermann AL and Mercy JA. "Men, Women, and Murder: Gender-specific Differences in Rates of Fatal Violence and Victimization." J Trauma. 1992; 33:1-5. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Design and construction    2. Firearms    3. Firearms accidents    4. General    5. Health & Fitness    6. International Relations - Arms Control    7. Marketing    8. Political Freedom & Security - Law Enforcement    9. Politics / Current Events    10. Prevention    11. Sociology    12. Sociology - General   

Subjects:  1. Wounds and injuries    2. Medical    3. Medical / Nursing    4. Treatment Of Wounds And Injuries    5. Treatment    6. Anatomy    7. Internal Medicine    8. Occupational / industrial health & safety    9. Occupational medicine    10. Occupational & Industrial Medicine    11. Accidents, Occupational    12. Industrial Safety    13. Industrial accidents   

Subjects:  1. Cardiology    2. Consumer Health    3. Diet / Health / Fitness    4. Exercise    5. Exercise Therapy    6. Health/Fitness    7. Medical    8. Sports Medicine    9. Biomechanics, human kinetics    10. Medical / Sports Medicine    11. Physiotherapy    12. Sports injuries & medicine   

Subjects:  1. Accidents    2. Consumer Health    3. Health/Fitness    4. Prevention    5. Safety    6. United States   

Subjects:  1. Family / Parenting / Childbirth    2. Health & Fitness    3. Health/Fitness    4. Infertility    5. Popular works    6. Work-Related Health   

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Highly recommended and Helpful
A scientific but very readable account of CFS.This book covers the main aspects of the features and symptoms of the illness as well as the important role of psychological factors.The book is helpful for those wanting an up-to-date review of CFS and methods of coping with the condition.Although the book my not be popular with those with an investment in a biomedical explanation of CFS those with a broader view will find this book of considerable value. Highly recommended.

Miss this one
I have read many books on CFS and I'd have to say this is the WORST!! Although the book is fairly well written and the authors appear to have the information at hand, their interpretation leaves A LOT to be desired. Give this one a miss!! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome    2. Diseases    3. Diseases - General    4. Health & Fitness    5. Health/Fitness    6. Medical / Nursing    7. Neurology - General    8. Coping with illness    9. Diseases & disorders    10. Health & Fitness / Work-Related Health   

Subjects:  1. Consumer Health    2. Literary & Linguistic Reference Works    3. Occupational / industrial health & safety    4. Safety    5. Work-Related Health    6. Reference works   

Subjects:  1. Bodybuilding & Weight Training    2. Exercise    3. Health & Fitness    4. Spanish: Adult Nonfiction    5. Sports & Recreation   

Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Human Resources & Personnel Management    3. Industrial Health & Safety    4. Litigation    5. Reference    6. English law: financial, taxation, commercial, industrial    7. Occupational / industrial health & safety   

Subjects:  1. Allied Health Services - Physical Therapy    2. Football injuries    3. Medical    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Orthopedics    6. Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation    7. Sports Medicine    8. Medical / Orthopedics    9. Soccer (Association football)    10. Sports injuries & medicine    11. football    12. injuries    13. sport    14. traumatology