Acsm's Sports Medicine: A Comprehensive Review

ACSM’s Sports Medicine: A Comprehensive Review, 2nd Edition, spans the full spectrum of sports medicine, from medical to skeletal conditions related to the athlete. Using an easy-to-follow, bulleted approach, it approaches the content with two guiding objectives 1) to serve a premier educational primer for the clinician embarking on a career in sports medicine, and 2) to provide the foremost resource to assist clinicians preparing for their subspecialty sports medicine certification examination. A multidisciplinary team of authors and editors, led by senior editor Dr. Francis G. O’Connor, ensures that you’ll benefit from the who’s who of sports medicine talent from nearly all medical specialties and leaders in athletic training and physical therapy.

• Expanded to 136 chapters, divided into seven sections: general considerations, evaluation of the injured athlete, medical problems in the athlete, muscu­loskeletal problems in the athlete, principles of rehabilitation, sports-specific populations, and special populations.
• Uses an easy-access, bulleted format that makes important concepts simple to locate and recall, highlighted by numerous tables, figures, and algorithms.
• Features over 1,300 refreshed board-style practice questions online, with rationale for correct and incorrect responses.
• Includes additional online-only content include chapter addenda, Radiographic Lines and Angles resource, and the most recent guidance by the Team Physician Consensus Conference (TPCC).