Product Description

This bestselling title is the comprehensive guide for any practitioner involved in sports medicine, as well as an essential text for musculoskeletal specialists such as physiotherapists, massage therapists, orthopaedic surgeons and chiropractors.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #34450 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1084 pages

Doody's Book Review Service, January 2007
a "gold standard" review for a variety of sports medicine
professionals... an incredibly versatile book.

Univardis, July 2007
Logical structure and good format ... a must for any clinician in
sports medicine including surgeons, physicians, GPSIs and
physiotherapists.

From the Publisher
From Satisfied Users of the Second Edition

"Excellent practical book for clinicians. This very practical book that uses symptom-oriented chapters to provide very helpful guidance to anyone who sees sports medicine patients. It is useful for physical therapists (like me) but my colleagues who are doctors and masseurs also use it. I thoroughly recommend it and find its illustrations of physical examination particularly useful" - A reader from Seattle, USA

"Practical sports medicine book for physiotherapists, sports physicians This definitive sports medicine text book of 920 superbly-illustrated pages is the 'gold-standard' of sports medicine books. Its main emphasis is conservative care of musculoskeletal conditions and it is particularly up to date in management of overuse tendon conditions, the latest on shoulder rehabilitation, management of troublesome back problems and the athletic groin. It also covers issues such as enhancing sports performance with nutrition and psychology, traveling with a team and ethical issues in sport. The first edition was a great success but this second edition is a far superior book. And it is exceptional value for money. I strongly recommend those working with athletes and those treating musculoskeletal conditions to check this Australian-Canadian book out fully. It's a gem" - A physical therapist at Whistler, British Columbia, Canada

Customer Reviews

essential reading
This second edition of the book is much improved, largely due to increased collaboration with sports medicine professionals, mainly from Australia. The chapters are updated and expanded and some new chapters are added. The improvement I liked most was the rehab programs which have been addeed to the text. As a sports physio, I found this invaluable. Essential reading for all involved in sports medicine.

Review of DVD not book!
Most of my fellow reviewers here seem to have missed that they are reviewing the book instead of the DVD, as listed.

I must say I am very disappointed in the DVD. Whilst it has pretty comprehensive review of examinations of the upper limb, in the lower limb only the knee gets any real attention. The hip and ankle are almost completely left out, apart from taping of the latter!

When an area is touched upon it is pretty superficially discussed. Basically there is a quick run through of the examination of that area, but no discussion of the theory accompanying it.

In short, for the areas actually included, this DVD would serve as nothing more than an aide memoire and certainly won't teach you examinations of pat.

It is a shame - the accompanying book is excellent and this DVD had the potential to be an excellent resource for the student sports practitioner.

I hope therefore that the shortcomings are addressed in future editions of this media.

Definitely worth the upgrade from the 2nd edition
Many of us have the 2nd edition (red cover) and feel it is still providing good service. However, I checked inside my old favourite and found that the 2nd edition was written in 2000! How the time flies!

This new edition LOOKS spectacular because of the colour photographs and the lovely artwork. The artist is a real discovery! But what impressed me much more was the amount of new practical material that I can use in my clinic. In the week that I have had this 3rd edition I have noticed that many, many chapters have had major overhauls. So the claim of '6 new chapters' really vastly under-estimates how much new material is in there.

The knee pain, knee injury, Achilles, wrist pain, and longstanding groin chapters are all very very helpful. And it is great to find so many of the leading authors in various field have contributed to this one book.

At over 1000 colour pages it really is terrific value for money and I figured that it will likely last me 5 years. Great value!

I didn't buy a copy of the DVD with physical examination and rehabilitation but my partner did - it is great for students.

All in all a tremendous upgrade, seems more like a new book really. I'm glad I grabbed this copy while in London last week -- apparently copies are still a few weeks away from arriving here in New York.