Boxing : Medical Aspects - Friedrich Unterharnscheidt

Boxing

Medical Aspects

By: Friedrich Unterharnscheidt, Julia Taylor Unterharnscheidt

Hardcover | 22 April 2003

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Impact of Mechanics and Neuropathology of Closed Head Injury
Classification of Head and Brain Injuries
Injury Producin g Mechanisms
Clinical Diagnoses
Types of Injur ies of the Brain and Its Enveloping Structures
General Aspe cts of Biomechanics of Boxing
Importance of Animal Models f or the Interpretation of Boxing Injuries
Injuries Apart fro m CNS Damage
Eye Injuries
Hearing Impairments< BR id='CRLF'>Injuries to the Hand, Wrist, Muscles, and Peripheral Nerves
Injuries to Internal Organs
Damage to the Cen tral Nervous System
Acute Clinical Findings
Ch ronic Clinical Findings
Electroencephalographic Findings in Boxers
Acute Pathomorphological Findings
Chro nic Pathomorphological Findings
Case Histories of Histologi cally Examined Boxers
Punch Drunk Syndrome
Exa mples of Brain Damaged Boxers
Fatal Incidents in the Boxing Ring
Industry Reviews
"The book repeatedly enters uncharted territory. The table of contents includes everything from the mechanics of head injury to hand injuries to theologians' view of pugilism. Friedrich Unterharnscheidt is a medical scientist, a neurologist, and neuropathologist. He states, 'It is not my intention to support or oppose boxing as a sport; my own research and experience with head trauma and boxing injuries compels me as a physician and a scientist to let the findings be known so that prospective boxers and in some cases their parents, can make an informed decision to accept the risks.'...The authors do lay out the body of available scientific knowledge of boxing and a large amount of literature from newspapers, magazine, and books in an attempt to provide debate regarding perpetuation of the sport...the boxing photographs in the book are magnificent and provide a medical history of the sport that has never been done before. This alone would be fascinating to any boxing fan. From a physician's perspective, the chapters dealing with brain injuries, including statistics, studies, and pictures of actual boxers' brains are truly insightful." -Margaret Goodman, MD for THE RING, October 2005

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