Clinical Sports Medicine is a complete practical guide book to musculoskeletal medicine and physical therapy, covering all aspects of diagnosis and management of sports-related injuries and physical activity.
With over 1000 full color pages and a free patient information CD, Clinical Sports Medicine adopts an easy-to-use, symptom-oriented approach and describes multidisciplinary methods of treatment
It is a vital reference for all clinicians in musculoskeletal health including physiotherapists, masseurs, general practitioners, personal trainers, athletic trainers, and orthopedic surgeons. It is also important reading for advanced coaches, insightful athletes and students of sports-related subjects such as kinesiology, human movement studies and human kinetics.
Clinical Sports Medicine explores many important aspects of sports medicine:
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fundamental principles of sports medicine
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diagnosis and treatment of sports injuries
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enhancement of sports performance
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dealing with special groups of participants, including disabled and older athletes
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management of medical problems
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practical aspects of sports medicine
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New Presentation
St. Paul's Hospital Presentation - November 16th, 2006
NSAIDs in other tendinopathy, GTN patches for other tendinopathy, NSAIDs limit fracture healing and promote stress fractures & Exercise for Falls Prevention view now
New Articles:
An ounce of prevention? Justification is provided for the need to focus on sports injury prevention. read now
Exercises to prevent lower limb injuries in youth sports: cluster
randomised controlled trial read now |
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In the fully-updated, full-colour, expanded Third Edition (DVD also available)
Clinical Sports Medicine is established as a leading text on sports medicine; the 2nd edition received a ‘Book of the Year’ award.
This 3rd edition is a major upgrade for content, visual appeal, and readability. Every chapter has been updated for this landmark 3rd edition and there are six entirely new chapters. More than 1000 full color photos and purpose-drawn artwork show presentations and demonstrate treatment techniques. Click to enlarge the thumbnails:
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| Over 100 new X-ray, CT and MR images |
Full-colour demonstration of assessment and treatment |
Purpose-drawn artwork for 3rd edition' |
 Reviewers have said ‘this is not excellent – it is outstanding’, ‘this is the sports medicine book of the decade’, and ‘it is impossible to do justice to this book in words’. Amazon.com UK ranked it within the top 300 selling books (against all books, including novels!) in September 2006.
The book includes a FREE CD of patient instructions. Also for sale, is a separate 55-minute DVD of physical examination and treatment/rehabilitation exercises.
The book and DVD are already available in Europe, Australia and Asia and are currently in transit to the US/Canada with anticipated availability in October 2006.
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About the Authors:
Peter Brukner, MB BS, DRCOG, FACSM, FACSP, FASMF, is Medical Director of the Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre, Melbourne, Australia and an Australian Team Physician at the Olympic Games in Atlanta 1996 and Sydney, 2000. Read More...
Karim Khan, MD, PhD, FACSP, FSMA, FACSM, Dip Sport Med, is Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Consultant at the Allan McGavin Sports Medicine Centre, and a Sports Physician at the Olympic Games, Sydney, 2000. He is appointed across the departments of Family Practice, Physical Therapy and Orthopaedics, as well as Human Kinetics. Read More...
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