Sports Physiotherapy And Medicine

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.

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.

A reference on clinical sports medicine for practitioners and sports people. It features 56 chapters, of which seven are new to this second edition. This edition also contains over 50 new photographs, and sections on topical issues such as concussion and drugs have been updated.

Medical professionals in the field of sports physiotherapy and medicine specialise in helping athletes recover from injuries acquired while competing or training. A sports medicine doctor focuses only on diagnosing and treating injuries sustained in sporting events. Fitness and safety aspects may be employed as preventative measures, while orthopaedic manipulation, physical therapy, and injections can be used as curative measures. Sports medicine doctors regularly see patients who are experiencing back pain as a result of the repetitive motion, muscle strain, and overuse that may occur from engaging in activities like cycling, weightlifting, running, and golf. This book asserts that sports medicine combines conventional medical education with principles from sports science, exercise physiology, orthopaedics, biomechanics, food and nutrition, and sports psychology. A sports medicine team may consist of both medical professionals and non-medical specialists. They may include doctors, surgeons, fitness trainers, sports psychologists, physiotherapists, dietitians, coaches, and personal trainers. A specialist in sports medicine helps athletes improve their overall performance by attending to their health and restoring or improving their ability to do certain physical tasks. It is not usually implied by the sports medicine expert that the individual is a medical professional. The field of sports medicine is broad enough to accommodate its application. This book covers important issues in the fields of sports medicine and physiotherapy, including physical education-related sports injuries and physiotherapy with examples of various treatments. The many forms of massage, hydrotherapy, and other therapies, as well as the therapeutic activities you may do on your various body parts, are all covered in detail in a subsequent book.

In an accessible and easy-to-follow manner, this concise textbook on sports medicine provides a useful resource for those students and practitioners of sports medicine and rehabilitation, athletic training, physiotherapy and orthopedic surgery.

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.