This volume introduces students and researchers to the science of human performance and health. It focuses on how a healthy human body works during exercise and how sports and physical activity promote health and performance, ranging from the cellular level to whole body perspectives. Coverage also includes exercise physiology, sports psychology, human anatomy and physiology, biomechanics, biokinetics, diet, the nature and pathology of sport injuries, and injury rehabilitation.

Anatomy -- Physiology/Pathophysiology -- Exercise training -- Nutrition and supplements -- Injuries -- Diagnostic techniques -- Injury treatments-standard -- Injury treatments-alternative/experimental -- Medications -- Drug doping -- Sports in general -- Careers.