Buckley: Exercise Physiology in Special Populations: Advances in Sport and Exercise Science

The book is aimed at two main groups of readers:

1. Students studying the health and rehabilitative aspects of exercise physiology at upper undergraduate or postgraduate level; and
2. Healthcare and rehabilitation specialists requiring a reference source in order to provide their clients and patients with exercise guidance based on the best evidence.

In reading this book, there is a general framework for most of the chapters. This framework includes an initial review of the epidemiology of each disease or condition, which has either been strongly influenced by a history of physical inactivity and low fitness or other poor health habits that influence low levels of activity and fitness. After the epidemiology section the reader will find a review of the pathophysiology and aetiology of the specific condition before moving onto exercise guidance for each condition, either as a means of primary or secondary (rehabilitative) healthcare and performance. Within the exercise guidance sections, the various forms of exercise will be explored, including aerobic endurance, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and balance and coordination, and the evidence related to these components for each of the chapter’s specific health conditions. There are a few chapters which obviously do not have an initial section on physical inactivity and its influence on epidemiology, including lung disease, the female participant, certain acquired neurological conditions, spinal cord injury and ageing.

About the Author
Dr John Buckley is a BASES Accredited Exercise Physiologist. He is a founding partner of the Lifestyle Exercise and Physiotherapy Centre (Shrewsbury, 1988) and has been lecturing in Exercise, Health and Rehabilitation at Keele University since 1989. Bachelor of PE (Univ British Columbia 1986); MSc Sports Science (Loughborough Iniversity 1987); PhD (Keele University 2003). Published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise; British Journal of Sports Medicine and Ergonomics.Authored textbook Exercise on Prescription and has written Chapters in Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Textbooks.

Contents 
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Obesity and diabetes
Chapter 3 Cardiac disease and dysfunction
Chapter 4 Lung disease and dysfunction
Chapter 5 Arthritis and low back pain
Chapter 6 Ageing and older people
Chapter 7 Bone health
Chapter 8 The exercising female
Chapter 9 Neurological and neuromuscular disorders, a guide to pathological processes and primary symptoms
Chapter 10 Spinal cord injury
Index 

Book Details

• Paperback: 372 pages
• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone; 1 edition (August 19, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0443103437
• ISBN-13: 978-0443103438
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches 

List Price: $39.95