Instructions for Sports Medicine - Softcover

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This valuable resource provides easy-to-read information for patients on self-management, precautions, and rehabilitation of athletic injuries and other sports-related ailments. Authors trained in orthopaedics, family practice, and physical therapy give all-inclusive coverage. Drawings of rehabilitation exercises are especially useful. A diskette included with the book enables physicians or their office staffs to print out specific patient instruction sheets from any word processing software.

• 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!

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