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A Guide to Sports and Injury Management

  • 1st Edition - March 16, 2011
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Mike Bundy, Andy Leaver
  • Language: English

An indispensable guide for sports medicine students and practitioners working in the field! A Guide to Sports and Injury Management is a comprehensive practical guide to sports… Read more

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Description

An indispensable guide for sports medicine students and practitioners working in the field!

A Guide to Sports and Injury Management is a comprehensive practical guide to sports medicine care - book plus interactive DVD. Approached from the dual perspectives of a sports medicine doctor and a sports physiotherapist, this exciting new product covers the full spectrum of sports medicine from diagnosis of injuries to injury prevention, techniques for stretching and cooling, protocols, rehabilitation and details on illness, drugs and diet. Colour photographs and drawings support the text, and case histories clearly illustrate the process of making a decision and treating an injury.

The DVD features a unique interactive diagnostic aid for common injuries, 60 narrated videoclips of examinations and exercise demonstrations and multiple-choice questions for self testing.

Key features

  • Written by a sports medicine Doctor and a sports physiotherapist to provide a unique sports specific perspective
  • Covers full spectrum of sports medicine care including nutrition, drugs, injuries, diagnosis, protocols, exercise and prevention
  • Illustrated with full colour drawings and photographs
  • Accompanied by a DVD containing an interactive common injuries diagnosis tool, self-assessment multiple choice questions set by the authors, narrated video library of diagnoses, exercises and techniques shown by the authors, and the capability to download illustrations
  • Case histories in a 'mini-tutorial' style to illustrate the process of making a diagnosis

Readership

Sports medicine practitioners and postgraduate students; orthopaedic physicans. Manual therapists.

Table of contents

1. Training and conditioning

2. Injury prevention

3. Nutrition

4. Drugs and sport

5. Musculoskeletal injury

6. Return to sport

7. Exercise and illness

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 12, 2012
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Mike Bundy

Affiliations and expertise
Sports Physician, Pure Sports Medicine, Kensington, London, UK

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Andy Leaver

Affiliations and expertise
Head Physiotherapist, Bath Rugby Club, Bath, UK

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