Boxing : medical aspects /
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Academic Press,
[2003]
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Table of Contents:
- Impact mechanics and neuropathology of closed head injury
- General aspects of the biomechanics of boxing
- The so-called second impact syndrome
- Prize ring rules
- Punches
- Illegal punches
- 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
- Cavum septi pellucidi in the population and in boxers
- Punch drunk syndrome
- Why are woodpeckers not punch drunk?
- Examples of brain damaged boxers
- Fatal incidents in the boxing ring
- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) exposure
- Amateur boxing in the armed forces and police academics
- Discussion about boxing initiated by Dr. Lundberg
- Pros and cons. Statements by physicians, officials, writers, moral theologians, and politicians, etc
- Boxer 'nicknames'
- Boxing spectators
- So-called 'opponents' and mismatches
- Purses in boxing
- Karate
- Afterword