"Brukner & Khan's Clinical Sports Medicine, the world-leading title in sport and exercise medicine, is an authoritative and practical guide to physiotherapy and musculoskeletal medicine for clinicians and students. To accommodate the rapid advances in the professions, this fifth edition has been expanded into two volumes. The first, Clinical Sports Medicine; INjuries, is the essential guide to all aspects of preventing, diagnosing and treating sports-related injuries. It serves physiotherapists, team clinicians, athletic trainers, sports therapists, sports rehabilitators and trainers, as well as students in the health professions and in Human Movement Studies..." -- Back cover.

pt. A. Fundamental principles. Sport and exercise medicine : the team approach -- Integrating evidence into shared decision making with patients -- Sports injuries : acute -- Sports injuries : overuse -- Pain : why an dhow does it hurt? -- Pain : the clinical aspects -- Beware : conditions that masquerade as sports injuries -- Introduction to clinical biomechanics -- Biomechanical aspects of injury in specific sports -- Training programming and prescription -- Core stability -- Preventing injury -- Recovery -- Clinical assessment : moving from rote to rigorous -- How to make the diagnosis -- Patient-reported outcome measures in sports medicine -- Treatment of sports injuries -- Principles of sports injury rehabilitation -- Return to play -- pt. B. Regional problems. Sports concussion -- Headache -- Face, eyes and teeth -- Neck pain -- Shoulder pain -- Elbow and arm pain -- Wrist pain -- Hand and finger injuries -- Thoracic and chest pain -- Low back pain -- Buttock pain -- Hip pain -- Groin pain -- Anterior thigh pain -- Posterior thigh pain -- Acute knee injuries -- Anterior knee pain -- Lateral, medical and posterior knee pain -- Leg pain -- Calf pain -- Pain in the Achilles region -- Acute ankle injuries -- Ankle pain -- Foot pain -- pt. C. Practical sports medicine. The younger athlete -- Military personnel -- Periodic medical assessment of athletes -- Working and travelling with teams -- Career development.