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Clinical Sports Medicine

  • 1st Edition - July 25, 2006
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Darren L. Johnson, Scott D. Mair
  • Language: English

Tailored for today's busy clinician, Clinical Sports Medicine provides hands-on information for the management of both recreational and competitive athletes. Over a thousand… Read more

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Tailored for today's busy clinician, Clinical Sports Medicine provides hands-on information for the management of both recreational and competitive athletes. Over a thousand full-color clinical illustrations plus a wealth of summary boxes enable you to obtain key information quickly, while authoritative text written by established and emerging authorities provides state-of-the-art know-how on overcoming any challenge in the specialty. Coverage of sports injuries includes structured information on diagnosis, management, and rehabilitation.

Key features

  • Uses 1,150 full-color photographs, including a wealth of arthroscopic images, to vividly depict a full range of conditions and techniques.
  • Summarizes information in a systematic way using color-coded sections.
  • Integrates basic science information throughout, focusing on knowledge directly relevant to clinical practice.
  • Addresses operative management of sports injuries as well as non-surgical aspects such as nutrition, co-existing medical conditions, rehabilitation, and more.
  • Incorporates numerous algorithms to facilitate decision making.
  • Covers both general rehabilitation principles and rehabilitation of specific injuries, and provides return-to-play guidance for both you and your anxious patients.
  • Includes treatment recommendations for both competitive and recreational athletes, ranging from adolescents to late middle age.
  • Presents authors' pearls and pitfalls for effective treatment.


Readership

Orthopedists, Sports Medicine Specialists, Athletic Trainers, Physical Therapists, Family Physicians

Table of contents

1. The Role of the Team Physician


2. Preparticipation physical exam


3. Onfield Emergencies and Preparedness


4. Cardiac problems/ sudden death


5. Medications and supplements and Ergogenic Drugs


6. Environmental Stressors in Sports Medicine


7. The Psychological Aspects of Healing the Injured Athlete


8. The female athlete


9. The Pediatric Athlete


10. The mature adult athlete


11. Principles of rehabilitation


12. Safety Issues for Musculoskeletal Allografts


13. Muscle Injuries


14. Head injuries


15. Cervical Spine

Shoulder


16. Physical Examination of the Athlete’s Shoulder: The “Differential-Directed” Approach


17. Principles and Pearls of Shoulder Arthroscopy


18. Anterior Shoulder Instability


19. Posterior Instability


20. Multidirectional Instability


21. Overuse injuries


22. SLAP lesions/labral tears


23. Internal Impingement


24. Biceps Tendon Disorders


25. Rotator Cuff Disorders


26. Acromioclavicular problems


27. Clavicle Fractures and Sternoclavicular Joint Injuries


28. Scapulothoracic Disorders


29. Nerve Injuries


30. Traumatic Shoulder Muscle Ruptures


31. Pediatric Shoulder


32. Shoulder Rehabilitation

Elbow


33. History and Physical Examination of the Elbow


34. Elbow Instability and Arthroscopy


35. Elbow Overuse Injuries, Tendinosis, Nerve Compression


36. Tendon ruptures


37. Pediatric Elbow

Hand and Wrist


38. Physical exam and evaluation of the hand and wrist


39. Carpal fractures


40. Wrist Soft Tissue Injuries


41. Hand Injuries in Athletes


42. Hand and wrist rehab


43. Lumbar spine, low back


44. Abdomen and Pelvis Athletic Injuries


45. Hip Joint

Knee


46. Physical Examination and Evaluation


47. Principles of Knee Arthroscopy


48. Meniscal Injury


49. Articular Cartilage


50. Graft Choices in Ligament Surgery


51. ACL


52. Complex Issuers in Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction


53. Posterior Cruciate Ligament


54. Medial Collateral Ligament


55. The Posterolateral Corner of the Knee


56. Multiligament Knee Injuries


57. Patellofemoral disorders


58. Tendon Ruptures


59. Arthritis in the athlete


60. Overuse Injuries


61. The stiff knee


62. Pediatric Knee


63. Knee Rehabilitation


64. Leg

Ankle/foot


65. Physical exam and evaluation


66. Acute Ankle Ligament Injury/Chronic Instability


67. Ankle Intraarticular Injury


68. Ankle Fractures and Syndesmosis Injuries


69. Tendon disorders and ruptures


70. Midfoot and Hindfoot


71. Forefoot and toes


72. Foot and Ankle Rehabilitation

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: July 28, 2006
  • Language: English

About the authors

DJ

Darren L. Johnson

Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Chief, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Kentucky School of Medicine, Lexington, KY

SM

Scott D. Mair

Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Team Physician, University of Kentucky, Team Physician, Kentucky State University, Lexington, KY

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