ABSTRACT

Students have often commented on the need for a concise textbook on sports medicine that presents the essential information otherwise scattered across several much larger medical textbooks on other topics. Addressing this need, Key Topics in Sports Medicine makes effective use of the successful Key Topics format to provide extensive relevant information in an accessible and easy-to-follow manner. Practical and clearly presented, this is an invaluable resource for those students and practioners of sports medicine and rehabilitation, athletic training, physiotherapy and orthopedic surgery.

chapter |3 pages

Abdominal injuries in sport

Aetiology

chapter |1 pages

Clinical features

chapter |8 pages

Return to sport

chapter |5 pages

Further reading

chapter |9 pages

Investigations

chapter |9 pages

Back pain – discogenic

chapter |1 pages

Chest injuries

chapter |2 pages

Rib fractures

chapter |4 pages

Compartment pressure syndromes

chapter |1 pages

Autonomic neuropathy

chapter |6 pages

Disability and sport – overview

chapter |6 pages

Disability and sport – equipment

chapter |4 pages

Opiate painkillers

chapter |14 pages

Further reading

chapter |2 pages

Clinical features

chapter |7 pages

Elbow – throwing injuries

chapter |4 pages

Epilepsy and exercise

chapter |3 pages

Exercise promotion

chapter |1 pages

Female athlete – the triad

chapter |1 pages

Treatment

chapter |2 pages

Fitness testing

chapter |1 pages

Scaphoid fracture

chapter |3 pages

Gender verification

chapter |3 pages

Hernia

chapter |1 pages

Volar plate injuries

chapter |2 pages

Head injury P Thomas 134

chapter |6 pages

Post-concussion syndrome

chapter |4 pages

Peroneal tendinopathy

chapter 10|1 pages

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