Keep Moving or Principles and Practice of Pediatric Sleep Medicine

Keep Moving: Fitness through Aerobics and Step

Author: Esther Pryor

This popular text includes plentiful illustrations that help to explain the basic movements of step and floor aerobics. Additionally, the text offers information and suggestions on mastering difficult movements and avoiding incorrect positions and injury. Useful appendices and worksheets help students apply concepts discussed in the text.

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A resource for both novice and seasoned aerobic dance students, explaining basic movements of step and floor aerobics and suggesting ways to master difficult movements and avoid injury. Diet and nutrition are also discussed. This fourth edition contains new material on step aerobics, spinning, kickboxing, and aqua aerobics, and new appendices of Web sites, measurement worksheets, and exercises during pregnancy. The authors' credentials are not stated. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Principles and Practice of Pediatric Sleep Medicine

Author: Stephen H Sheldon

This companion to Kryger et al.'s PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF SLEEP MEDICINE focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of a full range of sleep disorders in children. Recognized leaders in the field offer definitive guidance on virtually all of the sleep-associated problems encountered in pediatrics, from sleep and colic...to obstructive sleep apnea, neurological disorders, and hypersomnias...to sleep-related enuresis.
• Presents up-to-date information of the field's hottest topics in chapters on Pharmacology of Sleep in Children · Epidemiology of Sleep Disorders During Childhood · Circadian Rhythm Disorders: Diagnosis and Treatment · and Differential Diagnosis of Pediatric Sleep Disorders.
• Organizes information into separate sections covering normal and abnormal sleep, for quick reference.
• Makes further investigation easy with abundantly referenced chapters.
• Addresses both medical and psychiatric sleep disorders.
• Features the expertise of Drs. Sheldon, Kryger and Ferber - renowned authorities in the field of sleep medicine.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction to pediatric sleep medicine	1
2	Differential diagnosis of pediatric sleep disorders	17
3	Epidemiology of sleep disorders during childhood	27
4	Anatomy of sleep	35
5	Case-based analysis of sleep problems in children	43
6	Polysomnography in infants and children	49
7	Physiologic variations during sleep in children	73
8	Chronobiology of sleep in children	85
9	Circadian rhythm disorders : diagnosis and treatment	101
10	Sleep and colic	113
11	Disorders of initiating and maintaining sleep	127
12	Attention deficit, hyperactivity, and sleep disorders	161
13	Narcolepsy in childhood	171
14	Idiopathic hypersomnia	183
15	Post-traumatic hypersomnia	189
16	Kleine-Levin syndrome and recurrent hypersomnias	193
17	Diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome in infants and children	197
18	Consequences of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome	211
19	Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome in infants and children : clinical features and pathophysiology	223
20	Enuresis in children with sleep apnea	231
21	Treatment of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome in children	235
22	Otolaryngologic management of sleep-related breathing disorders	249
23	Primary snoring in children	263
24	Sleep in neurologic disorders	269
25	Disorders of arousal in children	293
26	The parasomnias	305
27	Sleep-related enuresis	317
28	Pharmacology of sleep disorders in children	327