Koenraad Jan Lindner

Background

Koenraad Jan Lindner was born on June 27, 1941, in The Hague, Netherlands.

Education

Koenraad Lindner studied at the Academy of Physical Education (Academie voor Lichamelijke Opvoeding) in The Hague, Netherlands, where he received a Certificate of Education. Then he attended the University of Toledo where he received a Master of Education and a Doctor of Philosophy degrees.

Career

Koenraad Lindner began his career in 1973 as an assistant professor at the College at Brockport. Then he taught and conducted research at the University of Manitoba, Canada for 18 years before moving to Hong Kong in 1992. He retired in 2001 from the post of the Department Head of the Physical Education and Sports Science Unit, now the Institute of Human Performance of the University of Hong Kong. His research areas included aspects of motor learning and control, epidemiology of sports injuries, sports participation and withdrawal, and the motivational aspects of physical activity participation. His publication record comprises some 85 books, book chapters and articles.

Lindner's most known book is Epidemiology of Sports Injuries (1996). Epidemiology of Sports Injuries provides the first comprehensive compilation and critical analysis of injury data over a wide range of sports. For each of 24 activities, the book details injury incidence, injury characteristics, injury severity, and injury risk factors. Each sport-specific chapter also provides suggestions for injury prevention and proposes directions for future research. Epidemiology of Sports Injuries was developed by an outstanding international team of epidemiologists, physicians, and sports scientists who organized and interpreted data using one common methodology. This approach, plus the book's standardized chapter headings, allows readers to easily compare injury information across sports.

In Exercise Dependence, co-written with John Kerr and Michelle Blaydon in 2007, the authors provide an in-depth guide to exercise dependency syndromes. They examine the condition in the widest possible sense, explore different types of exercise dependence and offer strategies for managing and treating them.

Achievements

• Koenraad Lindner is known as an outstanding educator and prolific author on sports activities. He is the recognized author of the book Epidemiology of Sports Injuries which received a positive response.

Works

More photos

• book

  • Exercise Dependence

    (Exercise dependence or addiction has been described as a ...)

    2007
  • Epidemiology of Sports Injury

    (Epidemiology of Sports Injury is a comprehensive compilat...)

    1996

Connections

Koenraad Lindner has two children.