Developmental Exercise Physiology - Hardcover

Rowland, Thomas W.

9780873226400: Developmental Exercise Physiology

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0873226402 ISBN 13: 9780873226400

Publisher: Human Kinetics, 1996

In Developmental Exercise Physiology, Dr. Thomas Rowland provides a complete review of current knowledge about physiological responses in children to exercise. He focuses on changes that occur during childhood and documents the physiological differences between children and adults.
Part I, "Experimental Approach to the Exercising Child," features a unique chapter addressing ethical aspects of research with children. In each chapter in Part II, the author includes a special feature after the summary that lists "What We Know" and adds "What We Would Like to Know."
Dr. Rowland, director of pediatric cardiology at the Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, MA, is author of the popular book, Exercise and Children's Health. He is president of the North American Society for Pediatric Exercise Medicine (NASPEM) and a member of the American College of Sports Medicine.

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About the Author:

Thomas W. Rowland, MD, is director of pediatric cardiology at the Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he established an exercise testing laboratory. The author of Exercise and Children's Health and editor of the journal Pediatric Exercise Science for the past 15 years, he has extensive research experience in exercise physiology of children.

Dr. Rowland has served as president of the North American Society for Pediatric Exercise Medicine (NASPEM) and was on the board of trustees of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). He is a past president of the New England chapter of the ACSM and received the ACSM Honor Award in 1993.

Since receiving BS and MD degrees from the University of Michigan in 1965 and 1969, Dr. Rowland has been an assistant and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worchester (1977 to 1990) and an assistant and associate clinical professor of pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston (1975 to the present). He is professor of pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine and adjunct professor of exercise science at the University of Massachusetts.

In addition to conducting extensive research, Dr. Rowland has written and spoken about developmental exercise physiology, the effects of lifestyle on cardiovascular function in children, iron deficiency in adolescent athletes, and the determinants of exercise performance in children.

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