Exercise physiology in special populations /
edited by John P. Buckley ; foreword by Ann Redgrave & Steven Redgrave.
- Edinburgh ; New York : [London?] : Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier ; British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences, 2008.
- xiii, 357 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Advances in sport and exercise science series .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / John P. Buckley and Adrienne R. Hughes -- Obesity and diabetes / David Stensel -- Cardiac disease and dysfunction / John P. Buckley and Patrick J. Doherty -- Lung disease and dysfunction / Alison McConnell -- Arthritis and low-back pain / Alan Leigh, Helen Mitchell, and Paul Firth -- Ageing and older people / Dawn A. Skelton and Susann M. Dinan-Young -- Bone health / Jacky J. Forsyth and Rachel C. Davey -- The exercising female / Karen M. Birch and Joseph I. Esformes -- Neurological and neuromuscular disorders : a guide to pathological processes and primary symptoms / Helen Dawes -- Spinal cord injury / Nick Webborn and Victoria Goosey-Tolfrey.