Healthy Santa Cruz County - sports injuries

Library Resources

• Find Books: Men's Health
  Santa Cruz Public Libraries have many informative and up-to-date books about men's health issues. Click here to search the library catalog.
  Browse related subjects: books, books / videos, exercise, fitness, health news, healthy lifestyle, men's health, prostate cancer, quit smoking, sports injuries, testicular cancer, weight control

Recommended Websites

• American College of Sports Medicine: Fitness Information
  Helpful downloadable brochures include: guidelines for aerobic activity, plus the series "Selecting and Effectively Using...." which offers suggestions on how to choose specific pieces of fitness equipment (e.g., treadmill, elliptical trainer, etc.). From: ACSM.
  Browse related subjects: exercise, fitness, healthy lifestyle, recommended website, sports injuries
• Sports / Exercise
  Special features: Wide variety of helpful tips and techniques, plus information about sports-related injuries, from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
  Browse related subjects: exercise, fitness, healthy lifestyle, recommended website, sports injuries

Databases

• Health and Wellness Resource Center
  Provides health-related information from more than 700 health/medical journals and hundreds of pamphlets (many with full text), 2,200 magazines, and various reference sources.
• MEDLINE® PubMed
  PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes citations and abstracts from MEDLINE, the world's largest database of clinical medical literature. The database indexes more than 4,800 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries. Citations date back to the 1950s. Some citations link out to relevant information outside of Medline, or to the full text of articles. Tutorials are available and highly recommended for inexperienced users.