Sports physicians, physical therapists, and athletic trainers will find Epidemiology of Sports Injuries helpful in identifying problem areas in which appropriate preventive measures can be initiated to reduce the incidence and severity of injuries. They'll also want to use it as a resource for research initiatives in the epidemiology of sports injuries. Sport administrators and coaches will find the book a thought-provoking reference that spurs discussion and encourages changes in the rules, equipment standards, coaching techniques, and athlete conditioning programs they use.

AUDIENCE

Reference for sports physicians, physical therapists, athletic trainers, sport administrators, and coaches.

CONTENTS

Chapter 1. The Epidemiologic Approach to Sports Injuries, Caroline G. Caine, Dennis J. Caine, and Koenraad J. Lindner

Chapter 3. Alpine and Cross-Country Skiing, Charles A. Soma, Bert R. Mandelbaum, Diane S. Watanabe, and Steve Hanft

Chapter 4. American Football, Frederick Mueller, Eric D. Zemper, and Arlene Peters

Chapter 5. Baseball and Softball, Stephan Walk, Michael A. Clark, and Vern Seefeldt

Chapter 7. Bicycling, Diane C. Thompson, Andrew L. Dannenberg, Robert S. Thompson, and Frederick P. Rivara

Chapter 14. Gymnastics, Dennis J. Caine, Koenraad J. Lindner, Bert R. Mandelbaum, and William A. Sands

Chapter 15. Ice Hockey, William J. Montelpare, Robert L. Pelletier, and Ryan M. Stark

Chapter 20. Rock Climbing and Mountaineering, David G. Addiss and Hubert A. Allen

Chapter 23. Soccer, Melinda Larson, Arthur J. Pearl, Rey Jaffet, and Andrew Rudawsky

Chapter 26. Injury Prevention, John Weaver, Craig K. Moore, and Warren B. Howe

Chapter 27. Guidelines for Evaluating Future Research in the Epidemiology of Sport Injuries, Lawrence Hart

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dennis J. Caine is an internationally recognized authority on the epidemiology of injury in sports. His research and writing—much of it on pediatric sports injuries—has been published in many journals. Most notably, his articles on gymnastics injuries resulted from his leadership in two longitudinal epidemiological studies. A frequent speaker on the subject at conferences and meetings held around the world, he is an associate professor in the Department of Physical Education, Health and Recreation at Western Washington University (WWU). Dennis holds a PhD in lifespan human growth and motor development from the University of Oregon. He is a member of the International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry and serves on the Editorial Review Board of the Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine.

Caroline G. Caine brings expertise in dance science, experience as a writer and editor, and interest in sport science to this book. In addition to having taught dance at the university level for 20 years, Caroline has enjoyed a lengthy career in professional performance and choreography both in the United States and Canada. She was editor of the book The Dancer as Athlete and the coauthor of papers on kinanthropometry in dancers and epidemiology of gymnastics injuries. She also initiated and coordinated the International Symposium on the Scientific Aspects of Dance, (an associate program of the 1984 Olympic Scientific Congress). A recipient of many academic awards and honors, Caroline holds a PhD in dance and the related arts from Texas Woman's University in Denton. She is currently assistant to the dean and an adjunct dance faculty member in the College of Fine and Performing Arts at WWU.

Koenraad J. Lindner has been a lecturer in the Physical Education and Sports Science Unit at the University of Hong Kong since 1992. Prior to this appointment, he was a teacher and researcher at the University of Manitoba for 18 years. At the forefront of research on sports injuries, he was the principal investigator for a three-year longitudinal study sponsored by Sport Canada on injuries incurred in gymnastics. He is also the author of numerous articles and book chapters on sports injuries. Koenraad received the Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation Fellow Award as well as the University of Manitoba Merit Award, presented for excellence in teaching, service, and research. He is a board member of the Hong Kong Association for Sports Medicine and Sports Science.

WORDS OF PRAISE

"This book is a first in the field of sports medicine. The authors have comprehensively surveyed the literature related to injury risk in sport, and the editors have done an excellent job of integrating the content. This book reads like a single-authored book, in part, because the editors applied uniform criteria to the review of articles selected for inclusion in the data analysis. What makes this book especially unique is its use of evidence-based medicine. In each chapter, strength-of-evidence tables provide readers with important information about the study design, bias, and causation so that results can be interpreted in light of the study's strength. This book is the only one available to use this approach and is an important reference source."