Sports Medicine Physiotherapy And Rehabilitation

Sports injuries and sports medicine are both very important topics of discuss in the field of sports and physical education. These two topics are well explained briefly with important facts and essentials. Sports injury requires substantially more than 'treatment' of an injured area. Patients need advice on a number of other aspects, including maintenance of overall fitness during recovery, and require a suitable prognosis. If physical treatment is desirable it is necessary to have some knowledge of therapeutic modalities, and preferably a sound professional working relationship with the therapist of choice. The book covers: Sports Medicine, Physiotherapy, Hydrotherapy and Therapeutic Exercise.

World-class rehabilitation of the injured athlete integrates best practice in sports medicine and physical therapy with training and conditioning techniques based on cutting-edge sports science. In this ground-breaking new book, leading sports injury and rehabilitation professionals, strength and conditioning coaches, biomechanists and sport scientists show how this integrated model works across the spectrum of athlete care. In every chapter, there is a sharp focus on the return to performance, rather than just a return to play. The book introduces evidence-based best practice in all the core areas of sports injury risk management and rehabilitation, including: performance frameworks for medical and injury screening; the science of pain and the psychology of injury and rehabilitation; developing core stability and flexibility; performance retraining of muscle, tendon and bone injuries; recovery from training and rehabilitation; end-stage rehabilitation, testing and training for a return to performance. Every chapter offers a masterclass from a range of elite sport professionals, containing best practice protocols, procedures and specimen programmes designed for high performance. No other book examines rehabilitation in such detail from a high performance standpoint. Sports Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation is essential reading for any course in sports medicine and rehabilitation, strength and conditioning, sports science, and for any clinician, coach or high performance professional working to prevent or rehabilitate sports injuries.

Geared to physiatrists and sports medicine physicians, this book is a practical guide to the rehabilitation of sport injuries. It focuses on specific sports and describes a variety of popular sports in sufficient depth so that physicians can confidently diagnose and treat patients injured during each sport. The authors focus on conservative management of injuries, so that physicians can maximize nonsurgical options before resorting to surgery. The book explains the mechanism of each injury and offers strategies for evaluating patients and preparing them to return to play. Numerous illustrations complement the text.

Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "convenient electronic access to the text's illustrations, downloadable for use in presentations, as well as diagnosis-specific office handouts that can be given to patients who want to know more about their conditions."--P. [4] of cover.

Handbook of Sports Therapy Services: Organization and Operations is a practical guide, appropriate for each member of the multi-disciplinary "Sports Therapy" team, to establishing and effectively delivering the diverse therapy services required for athletes at international, national, and regional sporting events.

This comprehensive work brings together the latest theoretical and clinical knowledge in the field of sports physiotherapy. Deliberately written with a strong clinical bias, it places clinical assessment and management in context to highlight the scientific rationale that lies behind clinical practice. This approach offers practitioners, whatever their particular sporting specialty, a clear insight into the range of management techniques presented throughout the book. Extensively illustrated with over 300 figures, illustrations and photographs, the book presents a regional view of injuries and their management. It discusses the anatomy and biomechanics of every region of the body, and indicates the preferred protocols for assessment and management, together with alternative approaches. A key features of the book is its detailed consideration of both prevention and recovery from injury.

Rehabilitation is, by definition, the restoration of optimal form and function for an athlete. In this edition in the Encyclopedia series, the editor and contributors advocate that rehabilitation should begin as soon as possible after the injurty occurs, alongside therapeutic measures such as anti-inflammatories and other pain killing agents. This might also begin before, or immediately after, surgery. The rehabilitative process is therefore managed by a multi-disciplinary team, including physicians, physiotherapists, psychologists, nutritionists, and athletic trainers, amongst others. This book considers the three phases of rehabilitation: pain relief, protection of the affected area and limitation of tissue damage; limitation of impairment and recovery of flexibility, strength, endurance, balance and co-ordination; and finally the start of conditioning to return to training and competition.

Represents collaboration among orthopaedists, physical trainers, and athletic trainers. It reviews the rehabilitation needs for all types of sports injuries, stressing the treatment of the entire kinetic chain with various exercises. Chapters have been extensively revised, featuring new concepts and techniques. The 3rd edition includes four new chapters (Proprioception and Neuromuscular Control; Cervical Spine Rehabilitation; Functional Training and Advanced Rehabilitation; and Plyometrics), new contributors and new features, such as summary boxes and tables.