{"product_id":"pediatric-exercise-medicine-from-physiologic-principles-to-health-care-application-9780880115971","title":"Pediatric Exercise Medicine: From Physiologic Principles to Health Care Application","description":"\u003cp\u003ePediatric Exercise Medicine: From Physiologic Principles to Healthcare Application draws from the most current research activity in the area to examine physical activity as a prerequisite to the good health and physical performance of children. The book also considers the effects of lack of exercise on children and the relevance of exercise to clinical pediatrics for children with chronic diseases. While Pediatric Exercise Medicine: From Physiologic Principles to Healthcare Application emphasizes clinically related issues  it provides comprehensive coverage of the child-exercise-health triad of importance to all professionals serving young people. The text identifies current research in the area of pediatric exercise. It also helps the reader to compare the exercise responses of healthy children to the responses of children with clinical impairments. In turn  readers will recognize the factors that can influence childrens activity behavior  trainability  and performance. The book contains three chapters related to the normal physiological and perceptual exercise responses of the healthy child. The next nine chapters consider the effects of exercise on children with clinical impairments  including asthma  diabetes  cerebral palsy  and obesity. A special feature is the coverage of childrens trainability and the factors that can influence performance. The information  including environmental stressors on children  will be of interest to scholars and students as well as to coaches working in this area. The book also has these features: -Extensive graphic interpretation of the datamore than 250 illustrations -Helpful reference tables -Six appendixes on normative data  methods  energy-equivalent tables for different activities scaling for body size  and a glossary of terms. In Pediatric Exercise Medicine: From Physiologic Principles to Healthcare Application  youll find content you can apply in your daily work as a therapist  exercise scientist  physician  or other professional. Youll also find evidence-based rationale for the need for physical activity as a preventive measure and treatment of disease in children.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45275293843509,"sku":"ByrdShop_0880115971","price":96.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780880115971.jpg?v=1780504242","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/pediatric-exercise-medicine-from-physiologic-principles-to-health-care-application-9780880115971","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}