Main description:

Provides students and researchers comprehensive, vital and robust guidelines for clinical sport testing.

The new edition provides an increased coverage of special populations compared with the previous edition reflecting the increasing importance of the area

Brings together internationally recognised and BASES accredited experts for each section

Contents:

Introduction

Part 1

1.1 Professional Competency and Working with Others

1.2: Physiological Exercise Testing: Ethical Considerations

1.3: Health and Safety in Duty of Care: Evaluating and Stratifying Risk

1.4: Safeguarding in Physiological Testing

1.5: Influence of Medication on Typical Exercise Response

Part 2

2.1: Data Intelligence and Feedback in a Clinical Context

2.2: Reliability and Measurement Error

2.3 Scaling: Adjusting Physiological and Performance Measures to Body Size

Part 3

3.1: Participant Pre-test Preparation and Evaluation

3.2: Maintenance and Calibration Standards: A Cornerstone of Laboratory Quality Assurance

3.3: Lung and Respiratory Muscle Function

3.4: Surface Anthropometry

3.5: Functional Screening

3.6: Assessment of Free-living Energy Expenditure

3.7: Respiratory Gas Analysis

3.8: Metabolic Threshold Testing: Interpretation and Prognostic Prescriptive Value

3.9: Ratings of Perceived Exertion

3.10: Clinical Strength Testing

3.11: Blood Sampling

3.12: Field Based Assessments for Determining Aerobic Fitness and Exercise Prescription

3.13: Quantifying Free-living Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviours in Adults

3.14: Musculoskeletal Assessment

Part 4

4.1: Assessment of Peripheral Blood Flow and Vascular Function

4.2: Application of Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry

4.3: Assessment of Cardiac Structure and Function

4.4: Methods in Exercise Immunology

4.5: Skeletal Muscle Biopsy: Techniques and Applications

Part 5

5.1: Exercise Testing in Obesity

5.2: Exercise Testing in Cardiovascular Disease

5.3: Exercise Testing in Diabetes

5.4: Exercise Testing in Chronic Kidney Disease

5.5: Exercise Testing in Chronic Lung Disease

5.6: Exercise Testing in Breast and Prostate Cancer

5.7: Exercise Testing in Peripheral Arterial Disease

5.8: Exercise Testing in Children

5.9: Exercise Testing in Older Adults

5.10: Exercise Testing in Females

5.11: Exercise Testing in Pregnancy

5.12: Exercise Testing in Heart Failure