Extreme Sports Medicine
This technically oriented book on medicine as applied to extreme sports offers broad coverage of the field extending well beyond the usual focus on major trauma and acute injuries. In addition to the injuries and diseases associated with individual e
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Extreme Sports Medicine
Francesco Feletti Editor
Extreme Sports Medicine
Editor Francesco Feletti Local Health Trust of Romagna Department of Diagnostic Imaging S. Maria delle Croci Hospital Ravenna Italy Department of Electronics Information and Bioengineering Politecnico di Milano University Milan Italy
ISBN 978-3-319-28263-3 ISBN 978-3-319-28265-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-28265-7
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Foreword
Extreme sports are no longer a gimmick or a niche field. Despite of the inherent risks, extreme sports have evolved tremendously and gained enormous popularity over the past decades, involving both elite and recreational athletes. The impressive film footage generated by extreme sports participants including breathtaking stunts (and spectacular crashes or near misses) has attracted not only sports fans but also major television networks, their audiences and advertising, with its associated financial gain. To the general public the challenge and associated risks may seem unreasonably high, and yet each event may be the culmination of hours of training and preparation, similar to every other professional and more common sports pursuit. As more and more people are enjoying extreme sports, unfortunately increased numbers are becoming injured as a result. Future research is progressing alongside the sports development to allow the sports mechanisms, injury patterns, and predisposing factors to be better understood. It is the hope of all researchers and athletes involved to make the sports safer without detracting from its adventurous nature. Researching extreme sports requires thorough understanding of the activities, preferably from within, as eve
