Sports Physiotherapy

Extensively illustrated and evidence based, Movement System Impairment Syndromes of the Extremities, Cervical and Thoracic Spines helps you effectively diagnose and manage musculoskeletal pain. It discusses diagnostic categories and their associated muscle and movement imbalances, and makes recommendations for treatment. Also covered is the examination itself, plus exercise principles, specific corrective exercises, and the modification of functional activities. Case studies provide examples of clinical reasoning, and a companion Evolve website includes video clips of tests and procedures. Written and edited by the leading experts on muscle and movement, Shirley Sahrmann and associates, this book is a companion to the popular Diagnosis and Treatment of Movement Impairment Syndromes. An organized and structured method helps you make sound decisions in analyzing the mechanical cause of movement impairment syndromes, determining the contributing factors, and planning a strategy for management. Detailed, yet clear explanations of examination, exercise principles, specific corrective exercises, and modification of functional activities for case management provide the tools you need to identify movement imbalances, establish the relevant diagnosis, and develop the corrective exercise prescription. Case studies illustrate the clinical reasoning used in managing musculoskeletal pain. Evidence-based research supports the procedures covered in the text. Over 360 full-color illustrations -- plus tables and summary boxes -- highlight essential concepts and procedures. A companion Evolve website includes video clips demonstrating the tests and procedures and printable grids from the book.

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.

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.

For a long time, physiotherapy has been used to treat injuries caused by sports, athletic performance, or other physical activity by specialists in the area known as physiotherapists. This book, titled Physiotherapy in Sports, is entirely dedicated to the use of physiotherapy in the field of sports and the injuries associated with it. The book begins with a thorough understanding of physiotherapy in general for the reader who is reading about the topic for the first time. The first chapter of the book describes the circumstances required for a sportsperson on the field, such as food and nutrition, pre-exercise examination, and many forms of pre-game tests. The second chapter of the book discusses the whole muscle system of the human body in connection to physiotherapy as a therapeutic approach, as well as the influence of exercise on various types of systems inside the body. After this, the third and fourth chapters are entirely devoted to an in-depth examination of injuries to the spine, shoulders, knee, leg, wrist, and elbow, as well as their treatments. Finally, chapter five addresses the idea of minimizing the likelihood of injuries and principles of rehabilitation. It also discusses how to reduce senior injuries in sports and physical 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.

Bridge the gap between orthopaedic surgery and rehabilitation! Postoperative Orthopaedic Rehabilitation, published in partnership with the AAOS, is the first clinical reference designed to empower both orthopaedic surgeons and rehabilitation specialists by transcending the traditional boundaries between these two phases of patient management to achieve better outcomes.

This exciting new publication is the first authoritative resource on the market with an exclusive focus on Trigger Point ((TrP) dry needling. It provides a detailed and up-to-date scientific perspective against which TrP dry needling can be best understood. The first section of the book covers important topics such as the current understanding and neurophysiology of the TrP phenomena, safety and hygiene, the effect of needling on fascia and connective tissue, and an account on professional issues surrounding TrP dry needling. The second section includes a detailed and well-illustrated review of deep dry needling techniques of the most common muscles throughout the body. The third section of the book describes several other needling approaches, such as superficial dry needling, dry needling from a Western Acupuncture perspective, intramuscular stimulation, and Fu's subcutaneous needling. Trigger Point Dry Needling brings together authors who are internationally recognized specialists in the field of myofascial pain and dry needling. First book of its kind to include different needling approaches (in the context of evidence) for the management of neuromuscular pain conditions Highlights both current scientific evidence and clinicians' expertise and experience Multi-contributed by a team of top international experts Over 200 illustrations supporting the detailed description of needling techniques

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.