London 2012: A Look Back at Sports Medicine Issues of the Olympics/Paralympicsprovides acompelling overview of several of the sports medicine-related aspects of the 2012 Olympic andParalympic games. Featuring six engaging speakers,
Among the topics covered:
Among the topics covered:
- Science at the games that floats a journalist`s boat (David Epstein)
- "Big bang of bodytypes"
- Injury and illnesses London Olympic games (Margo Mountjoy)
- Illnesses
- The epidemiology of injury and illness at the London 2012 Paralympic games (Stuart Willick)
- Web-IISS
- Nutrition at the Olympics and Paralympics: challenges and controversies (Louise Burke/Liz Broad)
- Reflections on successes and positive experiences
- Paralympic games – differences in resources and infrastructure to Olympics
