Main description:

This book investigates the growing and ever-changing health issues for girls and women who lead an active lifestyle and participate in sports and exercise. Easy to read, the volume provides an educational foundation for understanding how disordered eating, amenorrhea, and osteoporosis can be interrelated while also looking at image disorders and reproductive health. It contains thorough analysis of common prevention and management techniques, and provides useful links to resources on the internet for additional screening tools.

Feature:

Investigation of health issues unique to active females

In-depth discussion of body image and eating issues

Through analysis of common prevention and management techniques

Useful links to resources on the internet for additional screening tools

Back cover:

The Active Female: Health Issues Throughout the Lifespan investigates the growing and ever-changing health issues for girls and women who lead an active lifestyle and participate in sports and exercise. Easy to read, the volume provides an educational foundation for understanding how disordered eating, amenorrhea, and osteoporosis can be interrelated while also looking at image disorders and reproductive health. Written by world leaders in the field, chapters detail effective nutrition and safe exercise techniques while also discussing female psychological and physiological characteristics.

Informative and comprehensive, The Active Female: Health Issues Throughout the Lifespan is an essential, practical reference for the educated professional who seeks a basic understanding of some of the more common issues active females confront.

Contents:

Table of Contents

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. Robert McComb, PhD, FACSM

Chapter 2: Reproductive Changes in the Female Lifespan
Reid Norman, PhD

Chapter 3: Considerations of Sex Differences in Musculoskeletal Anatomy
Phillip S. Sizer, PT, PhD and C. Roger James, PhD, FACSM


Part II - Preoccupation with Body Image Issues and Disordered Eating
Issues in the Active Female

Chapter 4: Body Image and Eating Disturbances in Children and
Adolescents
Marilyn Massey-Stokes, EdD, CHES


Chapter 5: The Female Athletic Triad: Disordered Eating, Amenorrhea,
and Osteoporosis
Jacalyn J. Robert McComb, PhD, FACSM

Chapter 6: Disordered Eating in Active Middle Aged Women
Jacalyn J. Robert McComb, PhD, FACSM

Chapter 7: Eating Disorder and Menstrual Dysfunction Screening Tools
for the Allied Health Professional
Jacalyn J. Robert McComb, PhD, FACSM

Chapter 8: Education and Intervention Programs for Disordered Eating
in the Active Female
Jacalyn J. Robert McComb, PhD, FACSM

Part III- Reproductive Health
Chapter 9: The Human Menstrual Cycle
Reid Norman, PhD

Chapter 10: Abnormal Menstrual Cycles
Reid Norman, PhD

Chapter 11: Psychological Stress and Functional Amenorrhea
Reid Norman, PhD

Chapter 12: Effects of the Menstrual Cycle on the Acquisition of Peak
Bone Mass
Mimi Zumwalt, MD


Part IV -Prevention and Management of Common Musculoskeletal
Injuries in Active Females

Chapter 13: Prevention and Management of Common Musculoskeletal
Injuries in Pre Adolescent and Adolescent Female Athletes
Mimi Zumwalt, MD

Chapter 14: Prevention and Management of Common Musculoskeletal
Injuries in the Adult Female Athlete
Mimi Zumwalt, MD
Chapter 15: Prevention and Management of Common Musculoskeletal
Injuries incurred through Exercise during Pregnancy
Mimi Zumwalt, MD

Chapter 16: Prevention and Management of Common Musculoskeletal
Injuries in Aging Female Athlete
Mimi Zumwalt, MD

Chapter 17: Osteoporosis and Current Therapeutic Management
Kellie F. Flood-Shaffer, MD, FACOG

Part V-Safe Exercise Guidelines Throughout the Lifespan
Chapter 18: Physical Activity Recommendations and Exercise Guidelines
Established by Leading Health Organizations
Jacalyn J. Robert McComb, PhD, FACSM

Chapter 19: Specific Exercise Guidelines and Recommendations for
Children and Adolescence
Jacalyn J. Robert McComb, PhD, FACSM and Chelsea Barker, MS, NASM-CPT

Chapter 20: Exercise Precautions of the Female Athlete: Signs of
Overtraining
Jacalyn J. Robert McComb, PhD, FACSM and Abigail Schubert, BS, PT
Graduate Student

Chapter 21: Exercise Guidelines and Recommendations during Pregnancy
Jacalyn J. Robert McComb, PhD, FACSM and Jessica Stovall, BS

Chapter 22: Mindful Exercise, Quality of Life, and Cancer: A
Mindfulness-Based Exercise
Rehabilitation Program for Women with Breast Cancer
Anna M. Tacón, PhD

Chapter 23: Resistance Training Guidelines for the Postmenopausal Woman
Shawn Anger MS, NSCA-CPT and Chelsea Barker MS, NASM-CPT


Part VI- Nutrition, Energy Balance, and Weight Control

Chapter 24: Estimating Energy Requirements
Jacalyn J. Robert McComb, PhD, FACSM

Chapter 25: Nutritional Guidelines and Energy Needs for Active Children
Karen S. Meaney, EdD, Kelcie Kopf, MS and Megan Simons, BS

Chapter 26: Nutritional Guidelines and Energy Needs for the Female
Athlete- Determining Energy and Nutritional Needs to Ameliorate
Functional Amenorrhea Caused by Energy Imbalance
Jacalyn J. Robert McComb, PhD, FACSM

Chapter 27: Ergogenic Aids and the Female Athlete
Jacalyn J. Robert McComb, PhD, FACSM and Shannon L. Jordan, MS

Chapter 28: Nutritional Guidelines and Energy Needs During Pregnancy
and Lactation
Jacalyn J. Robert McComb, Ph., FACSM

Chapter 29: Nutritional Guidelines, Energy Balance, and Weight
Control: Issues for the Mature Physically Active Woman
Jacalyn J. Robert McComb, Ph., FACSM