Instructions for Sports Medicine Patients Paperback - 2003

From the publisher

This new resource provides easy-to-understand information on over 200 sports medicine injuries and ailments that practitioners can photocopy straight from the book-or print from an accompanying CD-ROM-to give to their patients. For each sports-related condition, it discusses the nature and causes of the injury

• Presents patient-friendly information-with physical therapy exercises organized by diagnosis-on over 200 sports medicine injuries and ailments.
• Features a wealth of illustrations that clearly depict the exercises, as well as many helpful anatomic drawings.
• Comes with a CD-ROM containing all of the text and illustrations from the book-so practitioners can find and print what they need in seconds.
• Describes the features of medical conditions, enabling patients to recognize, prevent, or seek treatment for the problem.
• Includes information on currently popular sports-related nutritional supplements and drugs.
• Features the expertise of authors trained in orthopaedics, family practice, and physical therapy.
• Discusses a wealth of hot topics in chapters such as Amino Acid Supplementation - Anabolic Steroids - Arthroscopy - Blood Doping - Compartment syndrome - Ephedrine - Physeal Injuries - Posterior Ankle Impingement & Posterior Process Fractures - Rotator Cuff Tear - Surgery for Rotator Cuff Tear - Thoracic Outlet Syndrome - and more!