Explore the three-volume Praeger Handbook of Sports Medicine and Athlete Health from your own computer! Find this e-book and explore guides to athlete health, injury prevention, mental health, sports medicine careers, and more through your Library Services catalog. Use the “bibliographic record display” link to access this resource.

Students interested in pursuing a career in sports medicine should take advantage of two very helpful features:

• Appendices with information on graduate programs and professional schools, sports medicine programs, and sports medicine associations
• Interviews with sports medicine professionals, explaining how to enter the field, and information on pursuing similar fields of employment

This comprehensive guide also includes introductory material that may appeal to newer students. Beginners can look forward to a glossary of sports medicine terminology and abbreviations. Covering a wide range of topics, students can browse specific interests, such as physical and mental health of athletes (including football players, boxers, ballerinas, cheerleaders, etc).

Students focused specifically on injuries and injury prevention should narrow their search to Volume 2, which contains descriptions of injury location, cause, and treatment.

Refer to Volume 3 for in-depth analyses and research on these related topics:

• Teamwork
• Performance anxiety
• Body-image distortion
• Family pressures