Managing Sports Injuries. A Guide for Students and Clinicians

DESCRIPTION

Now in its fourth edition with the revised title - Managing Sports Injuries: a guide for students and clinicians - this highly practical guide maintains its evidence-based approach while introducing new material from both research and clinical sources. It is a comprehensive resource for the management of soft-tissue injuries, focusing on therapy.

Well referenced and extensively illustrated, this text continues to be invaluable to physiotherapists, sports and massage therapists, medical practitioners, and all those involved in the treatment of athletes and sports people

NEW TO THIS EDITION

• Full colour text and illustrations emphasizing all practical techniques
• Treatment notes expanded with added topics and basic examination protocols
• Additional material enhancing clinical value
• Practical "how-to-do" approach enabling application of new techniques
• Updated research references

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Section I Diagnosis
• 1. Healing
• 2. Sports massage
• 3. Taping in sport
• 4. Physical training and injury
• 5. Exercise therapy
• 6. First contact management
• 7. Lower limb motion during walking, running and jumping

• Section II Management
• 8. The hip and thigh
• 9. The knee
• 10. The shin
• 11. The ankle
• 12. The foot
• 13. The lumbar spine
• 14. The thorax and thoracic spine
• 15. The cervical spine
• 16. Facial injury
• 17. The shoulder
• 18. The elbow
• 19. The wrist and hand

AUTHOR

By Christopher M Norris, PhD MSc MCSP, Director of Norris Associates, Physiotherapists, Sale, Manchester; Visiting lecturer to Salford University and Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK