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Diagnosis and Management
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Third Edition
By
Christopher Norris, MSc, CAc, MCSP, SRP, Director of Norris Associates, Chartered Physiotherapists, Altringham, Cheshire, UK; External Lecturer to both Liverpool University and Alsager College, UK
Description
A completely updated and extended edition of the highly successful and practical handbook, Sports Injuries: Diagnosis and Management provides
the most comprehensive single source for the management of soft tissue injuries. Designed and written for clarity, this new edition provides
an equal balance of scientific information and clinical guidance, emphasizing an evidenced based approach. Divided into 20 chapters
the book covers biomechanics of injury, tissue healing, sports massage, taping, exercise therapy and training, first contact management,
gait, detailed coverage of sports injuries to the upper limb, lower limb and trunk. Well-referenced and extensively illustrated, this
greatly expanded and revised text will continue to be invaluable to physiotherapists, chiropractors, sports and massage therapists, medical
practitioners, coaches, and trainers and all those involved in the treatment of athletes and sports people.
Contents
SECTION 1: Biomechanics of injury; Healing; Psychological aspects of sports injury; Sports massage; Taping in sport; Physical training
and injury; Exercise therapy; First contact management; Biomechanics of the lower limb during gait; SECTION II: The hip and thigh; The
knee; The shin; The ankle; The foot; The lumbar spine; The thorax and thoracic spine; The cervical spine; Facial injury; The shoulder;
The elbow; The wrist and hand.
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Hardbound, 476 pages, publication date: JUL-2004
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-5223-0
ISBN-10: 0-7506-5223-3
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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