Boxing - Medical Aspects

Klappentext This book neither argues for or against the continuation of boxing, but lays out the literature and the body of scientific knowledge that are necessary to provide a meaningful background for the ensuing debate. It provides a comprehensive resource for those who are involved in regulating boxing and those who participate directly, as well as for the medical and scientific communities. Includes carefully quoted case histories and research as well as an extensive body of medical literature on boxing injuries to demonstrate that brain damage is a natural consequence of boxing. Zusammenfassung Neither arguing for or against boxing! this book looks at the literature and the body of scientific knowledge necessary to provide a meaningful background for the boxing debate. It provides a comprehensive resource for those who are involved in regulating boxing or participate directly! as well as for the medical and scientific communities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Impact of Mechanics and Neuropathology of Closed Head Injury Classification of Head and Brain Injuries Injury Producing Mechanisms Clinical Diagnoses Types of Injuries of the Brain and Its Enveloping Structures General Aspects of Biomechanics of Boxing Importance of Animal Models for the Interpretation of Boxing Injuries Injuries Apart from CNS Damage Eye Injuries Hearing Impairments Injuries to the Hand, Wrist, Muscles, and Peripheral Nerves Injuries to Internal Organs Damage to the Central Nervous System Acute Clinical Findings Chronic Clinical Findings Electroencephalographic Findings in Boxers Acute Pathomorphological Findings Chronic Pathomorphological Findings Case Histories of Histologically Examined Boxers Punch Drunk Syndrome Examples of Brain Damaged Boxers Fatal Incidents in the Boxing Ring

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• Authors: Friedrich Unterharnscheidt, Julia Taylor Unterharnscheidt
• Assisted by: Julia Taylor Unterharnscheidt (Editor), Julia Taylor Unterharnscheidt (Editor), Julia Taylor-Unterharnscheidt (Editor), Friedrich Unterharnscheidt (Editor), Unterharnscheidt Friedrich (Editor)
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.04.2003
• EAN: 9780127091303
• ISBN: 978-0-12-709130-3
• No. of pages: 900
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Martial arts, self-defence; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Neurology, SPORTS & RECREATION / Boxing, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, Boxing, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology