Title:
Sports and children / Kai-Ming Chan, Lyle J. Micheli, editors.
Author:
Chan, K. M.
Micheli, Lyle J., 1940-
International Federation of Sports Medicine.
WHO Collaborating Centre for Sports Medicine and Health Promotion.
FIMS-WHO Consensus Symposium on Sports and Children (1997 : Hong Kong)
General Notes:
Collection of the keynote papers presented at the FIMS-WHO Consensus Symposium on Sports and Children (Hong Kong, 1997)., Collection of the keynote papers presented at the FIMS-WHO Consensus Symposium on Sports and Children (Hong Kong, 1997).
Includes the following guidelines: [at the beginning:] FIMS consensus statement on organized sports for children -- [before the last chapter:] Physical activity and health in the children of the Americas : position statement by the Pan American Confederation of Sports Medicine (COPAMEDE) -- Resistance training for children and adolescents : position statement by the International Federation of Sports Medicine (FIMS) -- Excessive physical training in children and adolescents : position statement by the International Federation of Sports Medicine., Collection of the keynote papers presented at the FIMS-WHO Consensus Symposium on Sports and Children (Hong Kong, 1997).
Publisher:
Human Kinetics,
Publication Place:
[Champaign, IL] :
ISBN:
0736039953 (pbk.)
Subject:
Sports for children -- Congresses.
Sports for children -- Safety measures.
Sports injuries in children -- Prevention.
Contents:
Development of performance capacity and stress tolerance during childhood and adolescence / Wildor Hollmann -- Physical activity and skeletal health in children / Anthony W. Parker -- Activity of children : health through sport, exercise and fitness? / NC Craig Sharp -- Physical fitness and physical activity during childhood and adolescence / Neil Armstrong -- Scholastic and intellectual development and sports / Andrew P. Hills -- Exercise benefits in children : the North American scene / Jordan D. Metzl, Lyle J. Micheli -- Children in sports : the European perspective / Nicola Maffulli -- Health benefits of exercise and diet control in children and adolescents : a Hong Kong and China perspective / Chan Kai-ming ... [et al.] -- Comparison of health-related fitness measures in 7- to 15-year-olds in Hong Kong and north Wales / Roger G. Eston ... [et al.] -- Growth and maturation of young athletes : is training for sport a factor? / Robert M. Malina -- Intensive sports training in children : a search for guidelines / Thomas W. Rowland -- Sports injuries in the child and adolescent / Lyle J. Micheli, Pierre A. d'Hemecourt -- Gene therapy in sports medicine / Christian Lattermann ... [et al.] -- The young athlete with chronic disease / Oded Bar-Or -- Adaptive sports medicine for disabled youth / Alex M. Lai, William D. Stanish -- The young female athlete / Suzanne M. Tanner -- ... [for the next three chapters see the note "Includes the following guidelines"] -- Sports and health in children / Chan Kai-ming, Valerie Sung.
Physical Description:
xviii, 293 p. : ill. ;
Publication Date:
c1998.
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