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Sport and Exercise Science


Author: Matjaz Merc
Source: Directory of Open Access Books
Publisher: IntechOpen
ISBN: 9789535137955||9789535140894||9789535137948

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Description
Professional and semiprofessional sports as well as excessive amateur exercise inevitably lead to some degree of musculoskeletal injury once in a sportsman's career. Some injuries are represented as chronic injuries, which can result in irreversible long-term tissue changes and deformities. The subject of this book is to represent the up-to-date knowledge about etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, management, and prevention of chronic injuries or sport-related long-term changes in locomotor system.