Superbly illustrated with more than 400 full-color illustrations and 120 photos, Clinical Guide to Sports Injuries is an outstanding guide to the diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of sports injuries. See and learn how to evaluate and treat a wide range of sports injuries and to handle each step in the injury management process. Youll also learn how to prescribe rehabilitation exercises to your patients.

With its color photos, superb medical illustrations created by Tommy Bolic, and useful X rays, Clinical Guide to Sports Injuries clearly presents various injury types, injury mechanisms, and treatment methods. And as a bonus, all these visual materials are included on the accompanying CD-ROM for use in lectures and presentations.

Internationally recognized sports medicine specialists Roald Bahr, MD, PhD, and Sverre Maehlum, MD, PhD, use a problem-oriented approach to focus on the management of acute and chronic injuries, whether they occur during competition, exercise, recreation, or other forms of physical activity. The editors logically guide you through the injury management process, beginning with the problem presented by the patient, followed by the diagnoses and treatment options.

Clinical Guide to Sports Injuries has the following features:

• New medical illustrations and rehabilitation exercise drawings
• A CD-ROM containing outstanding artwork from the book
• Illustrated exercises throughout the book

Clinical Guide to Sports Injuries is a well-organized, easy-to-understand, and richly illustrated text for general practitioners and sports medicine specialists"anyone who needs to know how to diagnose and treat sports injuries of all kinds.

Contents
Chapter 1. Types and Causes of Injuries
Chapter 2. Treating Sports Injuries
Chapter 3. Preventing Sports Injuries
Chapter 4. Head and Face

• Head Injuries
• Facial Injuries
• Rehabilitation of Head Injuries

Chapter 5. Neck and Back

• Acute Neck and Back Injuries
• Neck Pain
• Back Pain
• Rehabilitation

Chapter 6. Chest and Abdomen

• Chest Injuries
• Abdominal Injuries

Chapter 7. Shoulder

• Acute Shoulder Injuries
• Chronic Shoulder Disorders
• Rehabilitation of Shoulder Injuries

Chapter 8. Elbow and Arm

• Acute Elbow Injuries
• Elbow Overuse Injuries
• Rehabilitation of Elbow Injuries

Chapter 9. Wrist, Hand, and Fingers

• Hand and Wrist Injuries
• Finger Injuries
• Rehabilitation of Hand and Finger Injuries

Chapter 10. Pelvis, Groin, and Hips

• Acute Injuries to the Pelvis, Groin, and Hips
• Pain in the Pelvic, Inguinal, and Hip Region
• Rehabilitation of Injuries to the Pelvis, Groin, and Hips

Chapter 11. Thigh

• Acute Thigh Injuries
• Thigh Pain
• Rehabilitation of Thigh Injuries

Chapter 12. Knee

• Acute Knee Injuries
• Knee Pain
• Rehabilitation of Knee Injuries

Chapter 13. Lower Leg

• Acute Lower Leg Injuries
• Chronic Lower Leg Pain
• Rehabilitation of Lower Leg Injuries

Chapter 14. Ankle

• Acute Ankle Injuries
• Pain in the Ankle Region
• Rehabilitation of Ankle Injuries

Chapter 15. Foot

• Acute Foot Injuries
• Foot Pain

Audiences

A text and reference for those practicing sports medicine, including sports medicine specialists, team physicians, athletic trainers, and sports physical therapists.

Roald Bahr, MD, PhD, is a professor of sports medicine and chair of the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center and the department of sports medicine at the University of Sport and Physical Education in Oslo, Norway. He is also a consulting physician in the department of sports medicine at the National Sports Center. His primary research area is sports injury prevention. Dr. Bahr is a former national team volleyball player and coach.

Dr. Bahr is certified as a sports medicine physician by the Norwegian Society of Sports Medicine and is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine. He currently serves as a team physician for the Norway national volleyball and golf teams and is secretary of the Medical Commission of the International Volleyball Federation. He is a former president of the Norwegian Society of Sports Medicine.

Dr. Bahr lives with his wife, Ingrid, and their three children in Oslo, Norway. He enjoys playing volleyball and golf in his spare time.

Sverre Maehlum, MD, PhD, is currently the medical director of Pfizer Norway. He has served as chief medical officer for the Norwegian Olympic team at six Olympic Games and worked as a professor of sports medicine at the University of Sport and Physical Education for 10 years. He is a specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation and an authorized sports medicine physician by the Norwegian Society of Sports Medicine. He is a former president of the Norwegian Society of Sports Medicine. His work is widely published in the field of exercise physiology and sports medicine.

Dr. Maehlum lives with his wife, Jorunn, in Oslo, Norway, and enjoys running, playing tennis, and hunting in his free time.

Tommy Bolic, medical illustrator, has sport experience as both a top athlete and coach and has more than 10 years of experience teaching on the topic of sports injuries. He has been a medical illustrator for over 30 years, and his work includes Sports Injuries: Their Prevention and Treatment, by Peterson and RenstrĦm. This work has been translated into 10 languages and is the best-selling book on the topic.

“One of the most striking features of the text is its illustration program, in particular, the highly effective color diagrams of the pathoanatomical relationships in injury of various joints and parts of the body. These are certainly among the best illustrations of this sort of material on which comprehension relies heavily on the ability to visualize what is occurring under the surface.”

"This is the book you want to pull off the shelf with the patient in the next room, review the illustrations, re-read the short, pointed description of the injury and consider the subsequent treatment options. This will give the practitioner the confidence needed to care for the problem at hand, contemplate further tests, consider a Physical Therapy consult or perhaps even an Orthopaedic specialty evaluation.”

Daniel F. O'Neill, MD

Director, New Hampshire Knee Center

“The key for most of us when learning new material and committing it to memory is combining the words with visual images. In this book the illustrator, Tommy Bolic, is able to combine anatomic drawings supplemented, where appropriate, with x-rays and photos to allow the reader to absorb information efficiently and painlessly. As a result, this is an especially helpful book for anyone trying to understand sports injuries for the first time.”

Daniel F. O'Neill, MD

Director, New Hampshire Knee Center