Assessment Of Nonorthopedic Sports Injuries

Assessment of Nonorthopedic Sports Injuries: A Sideline Reference Manual is a concise and user-friendly guide that will benefit both the clinician and the student. This handy manual will help the clinician evaluate and treat nonorthopedic injuries on the sidelines at sporting events and can also be used as a study guide for students in the classroom. This well-organized reference guide contains algorithms, tables, and illustrations along with chapters that include an introduction and brief anatomy review, where applicable. The algorithms are designed to rule out potentially catastrophic injuries, such as cervical spine and head injuries. The algorithms will then guide the clinician through an evaluation specific to the injury, so that a differentiation can be made between the signs and symptoms indicative of serious conditions and those that are relatively benign. Assessment of Nonorthopedic Sports Injuries: A Sideline Reference Manual is a valuable book that will easily fit into a medical bag and have use as a crossover manual from the classroom to the playing field.

Develop confidence in injury recognition and assessment techniques with this book. This book equips students and athletic trainers with what they need to develop the evaluation skills to identify and differentiate various pathologies and accurately assess the nature and severity of the injury. The text offers step-by-step guidelines to develop a sound knowledge base and the skills required to effectively perform thorough and systematic injury assessments. You'll find well-illustrated descriptions of evaluation techniques the certified athletic trainer can use to help identify sport-related injuries and disorders. And you'll find clear descriptions of the symptoms of common medical conditions as well.--[book cover].

The case studies in this book use authentic injury assessment examples to help readers link theory and clinical practice with the goal of becoming competent clinicians. The situations are realistic and present more than 130 of the injuries that athletic trainers may encounter in the real world. The questions that accompany the cases ask readers to identify clinical and differential diagnoses, critique the evaluating clinician's actions, recommend treatment, comment on ethical choices, and make many of the decisions they will face in the field. The cases encourage readers to think and problem solve; evidence-based answers (for select cases in the text and for all cases in the instructor's manual) ensure that the recommended clinical decisions are based on the best available research, clinical expertise, and patient preferences rather than on anecdotal practice.

This text on sports medicine and therapy covers basic principles and regional considerations. Topics covered include principles of treatment, physical modalities, connective tissue healing and classification of ligament and tendon pathology.

-- Uses a standard approach to evaluation throughout the book (History, Inspection, Palpation, Functional Testing, Special Testing, Neurological Evaluation) -- Delineates the differences and the similarities between clinical and on-field evaluation; each chapter concludes with an on-field management section -- Each chapter starts with a review of the bony areas, clinical anatomy, and biomechanics of that part of the body and ends with a discussion of emergency or initial management of specific injuries

Covers the physical examination, assessment and treatment considerations for all major sports injuries. Provides insight into the cause of injuries as a result of a specific sport in order to tailor treatment to that injury.

Written by an international board of experts, this comprehensive text provides an in-depth review on the treatment and rehabilitation of the most common sports-related injuries according to the latest scientific developments in functional rehabilitation and the most clinically relevant features of pathophysiology of sports lesions. The management of acute and overuse sports lesions are classified by body area -- spine, upper and lower extremity.