TY - CHAP AU - Jorge A. Sanhueza Silva AU - Carlos Bahamondes-Avila AU - Claudio Hernández-Mosqueira AU - Luis A. Salazar Navarrete ED - Matjaz Merc Y1 - 2017-12-20 PY - 2017 T1 - Biology of Stress and Physical Performance N2 - Professional and semiprofessional sports as well as excessive amateur exercise inevitably lead to some degree of musculoskeletal injury once in a sportsman's career. Some injuries are represented as chronic injuries, which can result in irreversible long-term tissue changes and deformities. The subject of this book is to represent the up-to-date knowledge about etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, management, and prevention of chronic injuries or sport-related long-term changes in locomotor system. BT - Sport and Exercise Science SP - Ch. 1 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.72425 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.72425 SN - 978-953-51-3795-5 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-24 ER -