DESCRIPCIÓN

Now in its fourth edition with the revised title - Managing Sports Injuries: a guide for students and clinicians - this highly practical guide maintains its evidence-based approach while introducing new material from both research and clinical sources. It is a comprehensive resource for the management of soft-tissue injuries, focusing on therapy. Well referenced and extensively illustrated, this text continues to be invaluable to physiotherapists, sports and massage therapists, medical practitioners, and all those involved in the treatment of athletes and sports people. NEW TO THIS EDITION: Full colour text and illustrations emphasizing all practical techniques Treatment notes expanded with added topics and basic examination protocols Additional material enhancing clinical value Practical "how-to-do" approach enabling application of new techniques Updated research references TABLE OF CONTENTS: Section I Diagnosis 1. Healing 2. Sports massage 3. Taping in sport 4. Physical training and injury 5. Exercise therapy 6. First contact management 7. Lower limb motion during walking, running and jumping Section II Management 8. The hip and thigh 9. The knee 10. The shin 11. The ankle 12. The foot 13. The lumbar spine 14. The thorax and thoracic spine 15. The cervical spine 16. Facial injury 17. The shoulder 18. The elbow 19. The wrist and hand AUTHOR: By Christopher M Norris, PhD MSc MCSP, Director of Norris Associates, Physiotherapists, Sale, Manchester; Visiting lecturer to Salford University and Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK