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Sports Medicine


This guide is an introductory list to help locate research materials at the Rowland Medical Library.  While regular exercise and fitness goals are healthy, some athletes take their training to the extreme by abusing performance-enhancing drugs in pursuit of heightened performance.

Guides / Handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries / Selected textbooks / More books Journals / Selected indexes, abstracts and databases / Selected electronic resources


Guides
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Fitness and exercise sourcebook / edited by Dan R. Harris. Detroit, MI : Omnigraphics, c 2001.
BOOK STACKS   QT 260 F476 2001

Pediatric and adolescent sports medicine / edited by Lyle J. Micheli.  Boston : Little, Brown, c1984.
BOOK STACKS   QT 260 P34 1984

Rehabilitation techniques in sports medicine / [edited by] William E. Prentice.  St. Louis : Mosby, c1994.
BOOK STACKS   QT 260 R432 1994

Smart exercise : burning fat, getting fit / Covert Bailey.  Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1996?], c1994.
CONSUMER HEALTH   QT 255 B144 1994

Sports injuries : mechanisms, prevention, treatment / edited by Freddie H. Fu, David A. Stone. Baltimore : Williams & Wilkins, c1994.
BOOK STACKS   QT 260 S649 1994

Treatment of injuries to athletes / Don H. O'Donoghue. / O'Donoghue, Don Horatio. Philadelphia : Saunders, c1984. c1984., 1901
BOOK STACKS   QT 260 O26 1984


Handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries
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The ABC's of athletic injuries and conditioning / Albert Barnett Ferguson, Jr., Jay Bender. Contributors: Anthony Frederic Susen, Frank Koegel. Baltimore : Williams and Wilkins Co., c1964. c1964.
BOOK STACKS   QT 255 F37 1964

Allen & Hanbury's athletic drug reference / editors, Jack M. Rosenberg, Robert J. Fuentes, Art Davis. Durham, N.C. : Clean Data, Inc., c1992.
BOOK STACKS   QT 260 A443 1992

Handbook of sports medicine : a symptom-oriented approach / editors, Wade A. Lillegard, Karen S. Rucker ; foreword by John Lombardo ; with 37 contributors.  Boston : Andover Medical Publishers, c1993. c1993.
BOOK STACKS   QT 39 S667 1993

Regular exercise : a handbook for clinical practice / Steven Jonas. New York : Springer Pub. Co., c1995.
BOOK STACKS   QT 260 J662 1995

Standard Nomenclature of athletic injuries / prepared by the Advisory Panel on Standard Nomenclature of Athletic Injuries of the Council on Scientific Affairs ; Alexius Rachun, chairman... [et al.] / American Medical Association. Chicago : The Association, c1976. c1976.
BOOK STACKS   QT 260 A512s 1976


Selected textbooks
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The Exercising Adult / edited by Robert C. Cantu. New York : Macmillan Pub. Co., c1987. c1987.
BOOK STACKS   QT 260 E935a 1987

Scientific foundations of sports medicine / edited by Carol C. Teitz.  Toronto ; Philadelphia : Decker ; Saint Louis, Mo. : Sales and distribution, United States and Puerto Rico, Mosby, c1989.
BOOK STACKS   QT 260 S343 1989

Principles of sports medicine / edited by W. Norman Scott, Barton Nisonson, James A. Nicholas.  Baltimore : Williams & Wilkins, c1984.
BOOK STACKS   QT 260 P75 1984

Women and exercise : physiology and sports medicine / editors Mona M. Shangold, Gabe Mirkin.  Philadelphia : F.A. Davis, c1994.
BOOK STACKS   QT 260 W653 1994


More books

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Suggested subject headings: Physical Fitness
Sports Medicine
Sports - Physiology
Fitness - Physiology

Journals

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Suggested subject headings: Fitness - Periodicals
Exercise - Periodicals
Sports Medicine - Periodicals

Selected indexes, abstracts, and databases:

For article-level searching, log into the RML web site and select "Electronic Databases" from the drop-down box near the top of the page.  For the topic "Sports Medicine," you might try the following databases:

  • Academic Search Elite
  • Academic Search Premier
  • Basic BIOSIS
  • Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
  • Ebsco Health Source: Consumer Edition
  • ERIC
  • Index Medicus & MEDLINE Database
  • Newspaper Source

Selected electronic resources

American College of Sports Medicine

American Sports Medicine Institute

Encyclopedia of Sports Science and Medicine

Gatorade Sports Center Institute - Sports Science Library

SPORTSCIENCE ["A Peer-Reviewed Site for Sport Research"]


Author:  Lauren M. Young
Copyright 2005 (Rev 2006)
Rowland Medical Library
University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson