Football Injuries

Doug's life revolves around his teaching job, his family, and helping out at his parents' bar. Life is nice and steady until Jaxson returns after his pro football career ends and upsets everything with one simple bet. Doug can’t believe his enemy in high school is interested in a series of escalating bets where the winner receives his secret fantasies. Doug also can't forget the things that happened between them in the past, but if Jaxon's really changed, can he pass up a perfect second-chance romance and the potential for a dream life in their future? And are either of them really brave ...

The inside story of the Super Bowl champion 1986 Giants, the extraordinary friendships that resulted--and stunning revelations about the hardships they faced, based on new interviews with Bill Parcells, Phil Simms, Mark Bavaro, and Bill Belichick. The 1986 New York Giants are legendary. A...

The New York Times bestseller: a revelatory inside story of the trial and final days of New England Patriots superstar Aaron Hernandez, by his attorney and New York Times bestselling author Jose Baez. When renowned defense attorney Jose Baez received a request for representation from Aaron...

The book draws on public health ethics, public health law, and the histories of occupational and public health to assess the limits of parental choice to expose their children to risks of injury. Chris Nowinski, former Harvard football player and WWE wrestler, provides a timely and insider's perspective on these critical issues in the foreword.

Discover the Secrets Soccer Professionals Use to Recover from Games and Training! Is your game performance compromised by playing too many games or training too much? Does after game injury or muscle soreness seem to follow you, too often? Is your post-game fatigue causing you to recover slower than your teammates? Are you getting sidelined not because you lack the skill, but because you lack stamina? In this Smart Soccer Recovery, strength and conditioning specialist Mario Jovanovic, lays the foundation on the best known strategies on how to optimally recover after games and trainings. He ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Dr. Bennet Omalu discovered something he could not ignore. The NFL tried to silence him. His courage would change everything. “A gripping medical mystery and a dazzling portrait of the young scientist no one wanted to listen to...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A “meticulously documented and endlessly chilling” (The New York Times) exploration of the NFL’s decades-long attempt to deny and cover up mounting evidence connecting brain damage from football with CTE. “A first-rate piece of reporting [that] adds crucial...

This audiobook will explain what soccer analytics are and how they work in a game. It will analyze different parts of play during a game and provide ideas and details around how analytics can improve a team during various passages of play.

REVEALED: The inside secrets of the professional soccer world. Learn how the pros rehabilitate with top-tips and advice. Get information on everything from sprains to sunburn, and unearth little-known methods for curing and preventing injury. BECOME A VERITABLE ENCYCLOPEDIA: Read-up on the most common soccer injuries. Learn what they are, how they are most likely to occur, and how to deal with them if they should. With a dedicated section for each injury, you’ll have all the knowledge you need to stay fit and injury-free at your finger-tips. PREVENT INJURIES BEFORE THEY OCCUR: Our guide ...

¿Te encanta el fútbol y quieres mejorar de manera sistemática? ¿O alguna vez te has preguntado cómo piensan los entrenadores y jugadores de alto nivel sobre el juego? Este audiolibro es tu respuesta. Los análisis en el fútbol están desempeñando un papel cada vez más importante en este mundo. Los días de “corazonadas” que representan la táctica principal en un juego están pasando de moda, y un enfoque más analítico se está aplicando al entrenamiento y al juego.

For the first time ever, the popular late host of ESPN's The Sports Reporters and ABC's college football openly discusses a lifelong battle with depression. During his three decades on ESPN and ABC, John Saunders became one of the nation's most respected and beloved sportscasters. In this moving...

Alex Carter is the United and England Captain as well as being a nominee for Footballer of the Year. When he attends the prize giving dinner he witnesses a tragedy that will rock the game he loves. Keen to keep a distance from the scandal that unfolds after the tragedy he is slowly drawn into a web of deceit and the dark underbelly of sport where lies, violence and greed rule. Sustaining a career threatening injury it soon become clear that his soccer woes are the very least of his problems. Blackmailed, threatened and attacked, Alex is in fear for his own life and that of his family. His ...

The book contains safety tips and preventative measures, teaches how to look for symptoms of a concussion and TBI, including: Talk about gear, safety prevention tips, and general preventative measures that you can take in both contact and non-contact sports, dangerous hobbies and child activities A plan of action just in case these preventative measures don’t work out It also teaches the reader how to look for symptoms of a concussion and what steps to take if there is an injured party. It has defined different traumatic brain injuries and generally educates the buyer on what can happen ...

By now, football's concussion crisis is well known: every year brings headlines of our Hall of Fame heroes behaving erratically and dying young. But did you know that several kid players across the continent drop dead every year before a single ball is snapped—just from extreme conditioning drills directed by all-powerful coaches? Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads takes the conversation about football and public health to a new level with investigations of the sport's underreported worst tragedies and their cover-ups, at major universities, obscure junior colleges, and high schools.

CONCUSSIONS AND HOW I REDUCED MY SYMPTOMS After a seizure at 51 years old, I believed my 12 year pro football career was at least partially to blame. It sent me on a mission to determine what I could do to alleviate my symptoms and get my life back. This book is about what I personally did to help relieve my concussion symptoms. The book is NOT going to go into the specifics of the macroscopic or microscopic aspects of the cause of concussions. It IS, however, for those that want a simplified strategy to help reduce and/or eliminate the symptoms for THEIR SPECIFIC damage. You see, not all ...

Unveil a part of the sports world you may never have experienced before with "Beyond the Huddle", an intensive exploration of Fantasy Sports Analytics that will leave you enlightened and prepared for this exhilarating endeavor! You are cordially invited to engage your propensity for game strategy, knack for number crunching, and love for in-depth sports analysis in an exciting new way. Tempt your curiosity with our comprehensive introduction to Fantasy Sports Analytics. Appreciate the power of data and its integral role in shaping competitive advantage in Fantasy Sports. Whet your appetite ...