Brukner & Khan's Clinical Sports Medicine

Summary: Now in its sixth edition, the world-leading series “Brukner & Khan’s Clinical Sports Medicine” is a practical guide to physiotherapy and musculoskeletal medicine. Written for students and those early in their careers, this first book in the collection, Foundations of Clinical Practice, guides you on how to be a great patient-focused clinician. It lays out the clinical sciences that underpin our field, and details the principles of assessment and multidisciplinary treatment. Key features: [1] 87 practice pearls that turn years of clinical experience into expert advice. [2] 380 figures, 280 of which are new to this edition. [3] 74 feature boxes to highlight advanced clinical issues. [4] 69 QR codes with hours of additional content. What’s new: [a] Chapter outline, learning objectives and key points for every chapter. [b] 16 new chapters covering how to be a better clinician, how to interpret clinical sciences, and the principles that underpin quality clinical practice. [c] All chapters reworked from scratch by 90 world-leading experts. OTHER BOOKS IN THIS THREE-PART SERIES: “Clinical Sports Medicine 6e: Managing Injuries” is the how-to manual on diagnosing and treating sport-related injuries – “Clinical Sports Medicine 6e: The Medicine of Exercise” is for clinicians who prescribe exercise to promote health and who treat exercise-related medical conditions (e.g. exercise-induced asthma)The sport and exercise clinician (The patient ; Providing quality clinical care ; Clinical reasoning ; Shared decision making ; The multidisciplinary team approach ; Working with sporting teams ; Career development) ; Clinical sciences (Acute injuries ; Overuse injuries ; How does pain work? Using contemporary neuroscience to understand pain, performance and recovery ; Managing pain ; Introduction to clinical biomechanics ; Biomechanical aspects of injury in nine specific sports ; Training principles, programming and prescription ; Load management ; Recovery) ; The clinical approach (Preventing injury ; Periodic health assessment of athletes ; Diagnosis: history and physical examination ; Diagnosis: imaging ; Diagnosis: phases of clinical assessment ; Red flags ; Using PROMs in clinical practice ; Treatment of sports injuries ; Athlete education ; Surgery in sports and exercise medicine ; Principles of sports injury rehabilitation ; Return to sport)