Exercise physiology in special populations
By: edited by John P. Buckley ; foreword by Sir Steve and Lady Ann Redgrave.
Contributors: Buckley, John, BPE, MSc.
Series: Advances in sport and exercise science series
Publisher: Elsevier; Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier; British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Edinburgh; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780443103438
Subjects: Exercise therapy; Exercise -- Physiological aspects; Physical fitness -- Physiological aspects; Chronic diseases -- Exercise therapy; Chronically ill -- Rehabilitation; Exercise Therapy -- methods; Chronic Disease -- therapy; Physical Fitness -- physiology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Obesity and diabetes / David Stensel; title: Cardiac disease and dysfunction / John P. Buckley and Patrick J. Docherty; title: Lung disease and dysfunction / Alison McConnell; title: Arthritis and low-back pain / Alan Leigh, Helen Mitchell, and Paul Firth; title: Ageing and older people / Dawn A. Skelton and Susann M. Dinan; title: Bone health / Jacky J. Forsyth and Rachel C. Davey; title: The female exercise participant / Karen M. Birch and Joseph I. Esformes; title: Neurological and neuromuscular disorders : a guide to pathological processes and primary symptoms / Helen Dawes; title: Spinal cord injury / Nick Webborn and Victoria Goosey-Tolfrey.