- 900 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
This book neither argues for or against the continuation of boxing, but lays out the literature and the body of scientific knowledge that are necessary to provide a meaningful background for the ensuing debate. It provides a comprehensive resource for those who are involved in regulating boxing and those who participate directly, as well as for the medical and scientific communities. Includes carefully quoted case histories and research as well as an extensive body of medical literature on boxing injuries to demonstrate that brain damage is a natural consequence of boxing.* Presents in-depth analysis of the phenomenon of "punch drunkness"
* Includes detailed case histories of the clinical and pathomorphological findings uncovered by current medical research
* Extensively reviews medical literature
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- BOXING MEDICAL ASPECTS
- Copyright Page
- Table of contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Impact Mechanics and Neuropathology of Closed Head Injury
- Chapter 2. General Aspects of the Biomechanics of Boxing
- Chapter 3. The so-called Second Impact Syndrome
- Chapter 4. Prize Ring Rules
- Chapter 5. Punches
- Chapter 6. Illegal Punches
- Chapter 7. Importance of Animal Models for the Interpretation of Boxing Injuries
- Chapter 8. Injuries Apart from CNS Damage
- Chapter 9. Eye Injuries
- Chapter 10. Hearing Impairments
- Chapter 11. Injuries to the Hand, Wrist, Muscles and Peripheral Nerves
- Chapter 12. Injuries to Internal Organs
- Chapter 13. Damage to the Central Nervous System
- Chapter 14. Acute Clinical Findings
- Chapter 15. Chronic Clinical Findings
- Chapter 16. Electroencephalographic Findings in Boxers
- Chapter 17. Acute Pathomorphological Findings
- Chapter 18. Chronic Pathomorphological Findings
- Chapter 19. Cavum septi pellucidi in the Population and in Boxers
- Chapter 20. Punch Drunk Syndrome
- Chapter 21. Why are Woodpeckers not Punch Drunk?
- Chapter 22. Examples of Brain Damaged Boxers
- Chapter 23. Fatal Incidents in the Boxing Ring
- Chapter 24. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Exposure
- Chapter 25. Amateur Boxing in the Armed Forces and Police Academies
- Chapter 26. Statements of Medical Societies and their Perspectives of Boxing
- Chapter 27. Discussion about Boxing Initiated by Dr. LUNDBERG
- Chapter 28. Pros and Cons. Statements by Physicians, Officials, Writers, Moral Theologians, and Politicians, etc
- Chapter 29. Boxer 'Nicknames'
- Chapter 30. Boxing Spectators
- Chapter 31. So-called 'Opponents' and Mismatches
- Chapter 32. Purses in Boxing
- Chapter 33. Karate
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index