Evidence Based Sports Medicine.pdf

Evidence-based Sports Medicine

Evidence-based

Sports Medicine

Edited by

Domhnall MacAuley

Sports Physician and General Practitioner, Hillhead Family Practice and the

Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, Ireland

and

Thomas M Best

Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Orthopaedic Surgery, Affiliate

Assistant Professor of Kinesiology and Biomedical Engineering, UW Medical

School, Wisconsin, USA

For updates, sample chapters and further information visit the website at

www.evidbasedsportsmedicine.com.

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First published in 2002

by BMJ Books, BMA House, Tavistock Square,

London WC1H 9JR

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 0 7279 1584 3

Typeset by SIVA Math Setters, Chennai, India

Printed and bound by MPG Books, Bodmin, Cornwall