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ESSA's Student Manual for Health, Exercise and Sport Assessment (2014) Jeff Coombes, Tina Skinner (editors). Mosby Elsevier 446 pages, ISBN 978-0-7295-4142-8
Exercise prescription is increasingly important for physiotherapists for clients of all ages and conditions. Assessment of health, physical fitness and performance provides the baseline for prescribing safe and relevant programmes for individual clients. This text, written by Australian and New Zealand contributors in collaboration with Exercise and Sports Science Australia (ESSA), provides the basic theory and protocols for exercise testing. It includes tests that range from the use of a...