
Managing Sports Injuries
A Guide for Students and Clinicians
Christopher M. Norris(Author)
Churchill Livingstone (Publisher)
4th Edition
Published on 28. June 2011
Book
Hardback
432 pages
978-0-7020-3473-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
4th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Health Sciences
Target group
College/higher education
Physiotherapists (undergraduates and professionals), sports physicians; team coaches
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Approx. 805 illustrations (793 in full color)
Dimensions
Height: 219 mm
Width: 276 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7020-3473-2 (9780702034732)
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E-Book
06/2011
4th Edition
Churchill Livingstone
€57.99
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Previous edition
Book
07/2004
3rd Edition
Butterworth-Heinemann
€64.36
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Person
Visiting lecturer to Salford University and Manchester Metropolitan University; Director of Norris Associates, Physiotherapists
Content
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