The purpose of the The Active Female: Health Issues Throughout the Lifespan 2nd Edition is
twofold: (1) to increase the awareness of wellness and fitness issues for active females and
their family members and (2) to provide an avenue for medical practitioners allied health
professionals health educators and certified individuals in sports medicine to gain critical
updated knowledge of a field specific to active females. Part I of the book offers a foundation
to help the reader understand the interrelationship among body image concerns the female
reproductive cycle and musculoskeletal anatomy physiology of females that makes their health
risks and concerns unique. Reproductive health is discussed by a prominent researcher in
reproduction endocrinology. An overview of the Female Athlete Triad which is a syndrome of
three interrelated conditions (isordered eating menstrual disturbances and bone loss) is
presented in Part II. Physicians and certified professionals in sports medicine discuss the
individual components of the triad relating not only to the athletic female but also to the
recreationally active woman throughout the lifespan. In Part III Prevention and management of
common musculoskeletal injuries is addressed by a female orthopedic surgeon who sub-specializes
in treating female athletes. Finally appropriate exercise and nutritional guidelines for
active females are discussed in Parts IV-V of the book by certified professionals and licensed
physicians in sports medicine. An invaluable addition to the literature The Active Female:
Health Issues Throughout the Lifespan 2nd Edition will be of great interest to physicians
allied health care practitioners medical other wellness educators and students who are
interested in advancing women's health issues. Sports medicine specialists family
practitioners gynecologists team physicians residents in sports medicine athletic trainers
health educators nurses physicians assistants physical therapists sport psychologists
counselors athletic trainers and other members of the sports medicine team should also find
this title of significant interest.
