The purpose of the The Active Female: Health Issues Throughout the Lifespan, 2nd Edition is twofold: (1) to increase the awareness of wellness and fitness issues for active females and their family members; and (2) to provide an avenue for medical practitioners, allied health professionals, health educators, and certified individuals in sports medicine to gain critical, updated knowledge of a field specific to active females. Part I of the book offers a foundation to help the reader understand the interrelationship among body image concerns, the female reproductive cycle, and musculoskeletal anatomy/physiology of females that makes their health risks and concerns unique. Reproductive health is discussed by a prominent researcher in reproduction/endocrinology. An overview of the Female Athlete Triad which is a syndrome of three interrelated conditions (isordered eating, menstrual disturbances and bone loss) is presented in Part II. Physicians and certified professionals in sports medicine discuss the individual components of the triad, relating not only to the athletic female but also to the recreationally active woman throughout the lifespan. In Part III, Prevention and management of common musculoskeletal injuries is addressed by a female orthopedic surgeon who sub-specializes in treating female athletes. Finally, appropriate exercise and nutritional guidelines for active females are discussed in Parts IV-V of the book by certified professionals and licensed physicians in sports medicine. An invaluable addition to the literature, The Active Female: Health Issues Throughout the Lifespan, 2nd Edition will be of great interest to physicians, allied health care practitioners, medical/other wellness educators, and students who are interested in advancing women's health issues. Sports medicine specialists, family practitioners, gynecologists, team physicians, residents in sports medicine, athletic trainers, health educators, nurses, physicians assistants, physical therapists, sport psychologists, counselors, athletic trainers, and other members of the sports medicine team should also find this title of significant interest.
This book examines health and fitness issues specific to active women. It explores the interrelationship among body image concerns, the female reproductive cycle, and musculoskeletal anatomy/physiology that makes their health risks unique.
Part I- Focusing on Active Female's Health Issues: Unique Gender Related
Psychological and Physiological Characteristics of Females
Chapter
1.
Body Image Concerns Throughout the Lifespan Jacalyn J. McComb and Marilyn
Massey-Stokes
Chapter
2. Reproductive Changes in the Female Lifespan Reid
L. Norman
Chapter
3. Considerations of Sex Differences in Musculoskeletal
Anatomy Phillip S. Sizer and C. Roger James
Chapter
4. The Human
Menstrual Cycle Reid L. Norman
Chapter
5. Abnormal Menstrual Cycles
Reid L. Norman
Chapter
6. Nutritional, Physical, and Psychological
Stress and Functional Amenorrhea Reid L. Norman and Melissa R. Inigo
Chapter
7. Effects of the Menstrual Cycle on the Acquisition of Peak Bone
Mass Mimi Zumwalt and Brittany Dowling Part II -Disordered Eating Issues
in the Active Female
Chapter
8. Menstrual Dysfunction Screening and
Management for Active Females Jacalyn J. Robert-McComb and Jennifer J.
Mitchell
Chapter
9. Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating: a global
perspective. Ascension Blanco Fernandez, Maria Fernandez del Valle, Marta
Montil Jimenez, and Maesy Indigo
Chapter
10. Disordered Eating Issues in
Active Children & Adolescence Maria Fernandez del Valle, Marta Montil
Jimenez, and Lesley Carraway
Chapter
11. The Physiology of Anorexia
Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa Jacalyn J. Robert-McComb, Kembra D. Albracht,
and Annette Gary
Chapter
12. The Female Athletic Triad: Disordered
Eating, Amenorrhea, and Osteoporosis Jacalyn J. Robert-McComb and Andrew
Cisneros
Chapter
13. Screening for Disordered Eating and Eating Disorders
in Female Athletes Jennifer J. Mitchell and Jacalyn J. Robert-McComb
Chapter
14. Evidence Based Disordered Eating Prevention Programs for Active
Females Jacalyn J. Robert-McComb and Anna M. Tacon Part III -Prevention and
Management of Common Musculoskeletal Injuries in Active Females
Chapter
15. Prevention and Management of Common Musculoskeletal Injuries in
Pre-Adolescent and Adolescent Female Athletes Mimi Zumwalt and Brittany
Dowling
Chapter
16. Prevention and Management of Common Musculoskeletal
Injuries in the Adult Female Athlete Brittany Dowling and Mimi Zumwalt
Chapter
17. Prevention and Management of Common Exercise-Related
Musculoskeletal Injuries during Pregnancy Mimi Zumwalt and Brittany Dowling
Chapter
18. Prevention and Management of Common Musculoskeletal Injuries
in the Aging Female Athlete Mimi Zumwalt and Brittany Dowling
Chapter
19. Osteoporosis and Current Therapeutic Management Kellie F. Flood-Shaffer
Part IV- Exercise Guidelines & Precautions for Active Females
Chapter
20. Traditional and Non-Traditional Empirically Based Exercise Programs for
Active Females Jacalyn J. Robert-McComb and Anna Tacon
Chapter
21.
Cardiovascular Exercise Guidelines for Children and Adolescent Women Melissa
R. Inigo and Maria Fernandez Del Valle
Chapter
22. Resistance Training
Guidelines for Active Females throughout the Lifespan: Children,
Adolescences, Adult Women, and the Aging Woman Maria Fernandez del Valle and
Tyrel S. McCravens
Chapter
23. Exercise Precautions for the Female
Athlete: Signs of Overtraining Jacalyn J. Robert-McComb and Lauren Gates
Chapter
24. Excessive Exercise and Immunity: The J Shaped Curve Carolina
Chamorro-Vina, Maria Fernandez del Valle, and Anna Tacon
Chapter
25.
Screening Tools for Excessive Exercise in the Active Female Maria Fernandez
del Valle
Chapter
26. Exercise Prescription and Pregnancy Elvis Alvarez
Carnero, Claudia Cardona Gonzalez, and Jacalyn McComb Part V- Nutrition,
Energy Balance, and Weight Control
Chapter
27. Estimating Energy
Requirements Jacalyn J. Robert McComb, Elvis Alvarez Carnero, and Eduardo
Iglesias Gutierrez
Chapter
28. Nutritional Guidelines for Active Children
Shelby D. Kloiber and Eduardo Iglesias-Gutierrez
Chapter
29. Nutritional
Guidelines and Energy Needs for the Female Athlete: Preventing Low Energy
Availability and Functional Amenorrhea through Diet Jacalyn J. Robert-McComb
and Angela Garcia Gonzalez
Chapter
30. Ergogenic Aids and the Female
Athlete Shannon L. Jordan and Fernando Naclerio
Chapter
31. Nutritional
Guidelines And Energy Needs During Pregnancy And Lactation Jacalyn J.
Robert-McComb, Angela Garcia Gonzalez, and Lesley Arbona
Chapter
32.
Nutritional Guidelines, Energy Balance, and Weight Control: Issues for the
Aging Active Female Jacalyn J. Robert-McComb, Natalia E. Bustamante-Ara,
Jose E. Almaraz Marroquin
