دانلود کتاب مدیریت آسیب های دو و میدانی

Track and Field has a great historical background and is a fascinating individual sport which couples competition against adversaries with a continuous research of self-improvement. Competitive athletic spirit was first portrayed in the Mycenaean period, as a representation of two runners on a vase from Cyprus shows. Running, jumping, discus and javelin throwing were important events in the ancient games. All the historic Panhellenic games, including the Olympic ones, were related to myth and the Greek concept of perfection: kalos kai agathos. Competing athletes could become heroes, emulating Odysseus as Homer reported in the Iliad. The runner Leonidas of Rhodes was deified, having won twelve Olympic crowns in four consecutive Olympic games. Competitions were later gradually associated with preliminary selection, training, and professional coaches with experience in training, diet, and medicine: the beginning of sports medicine. Over the last decades biological, physiological, and biomechanical knowledge has greatly evolved, improving both the prevention and the management of acute and chronic injuries.