Soft Tissue Injuries IN SPORTS MEDICINE

• Other Authors: Almekinders, Louis (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, Mass., USA Blackwell Science 1996
• Subjects: Soft tissue injuries; Athletic Injuries
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• Physical Description: xiii, 338 pages illustrations 25 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 0865423822

The field of sports medicine is growing at a very rapid pace and with this growth comes a demand for more comprehensive, yet focused texts that will appeal to the varied audience of people who may be involved with managing sports related injuries. This volume provides concise information on imaging, differential diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation. As well as covering the basic history and biochemistry (providing only what the clinician truly needs to know), anatomy, biomechanics, response to injury and general concepts of treatment and rehabilitation, the author discusses injuries to each anatomic region in turn. In order to ensure that all possible readers questions are covered there is an appendix at the end of each chapter where hard tissue injuries are discussed briefly, providing differential diagnosis and an overview of injuries that require surgical management. This is a feature unique to this text.