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Epidemiology of Sports Injuries provides the first comprehensive compilation and critical analysis of injury data over a wide range of sports. For each of 24 activities, the book details injury incidence, injury characteristics, injury severity, and injury risk factors. Each sport-specific chapter also provides suggestions for injury prevention and proposes directions for future research. For those who want a broader perspective on sports injuries, the book includes two overview chapters: one identifies injury prevention measures that are applicable across sports and another presents guidelines for evaluating future research in epidemiology of sports injuries. Epidemiology of Sports Injuries was developed by an outstanding international team of epidemiologists, physicians, and sport scientists who organized and interpreted data using one common methodology. This approach, plus the book's standardized chapter headings, allows readers to easily compare injury information across sports.