The Anatomy of Sports Injuries: Your Illustrated Guide to Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment

I am an experienced masseur taking a sports massage to add to my qualifications, I am also a gym member and do exercise classes. The sports injury side of the course is completely new to me so I bought this as a text book to follow-up on the lessons. As with Walker's book on Stretches it is comprehensive without being too technical. The injuries are in 12 sections relating to parts of the body e.g. Skin, Head & Neck, Elbow, Chest & Abdomen, Hamstrings & Quads, etc. each with its own A&P (bones, joints & muscles). Each type of injury e.g. Sprain, Dislocation, Rupture, etc. comes with notes on What sports they are usually sustained in, Cause, Signs & symptoms, Complications, Immediate treatment, Rehabilitation and prevention, and Long-term prognosis, many with explanatory pictures and rehabilitation exercises if appropriate. Where medical terms are used there is an explanation or the name a 'lay person' would be familiar with, e.g. "Epistaxis, or nosebleed occurs when ....". Other sections cover; Explanation of injury, Prevention, and Treatment & rehabilitation management from first 3 minutes through all phases of recovery to the final stage of regaining fitness. There is also a list of anatomical directions and a glossary of terms.

Nice quality, good page thickness. Upon a brief flick through of the book, diagrams are clear and labelled well, and are in colour too which is nice! Most, if not all, areas of the body seem to mentioned, I like how there are sections dedicated to specific areas of the body and within those sections are different injuries, which is accompanied by an explanation of the injury, a diagram, symptoms and prognosis.

Good for beginners and basic injuries at level 3 but needs more information on rehabilitation and depth if you want to use it for a level 4 course. Rehab exercises are suggested but very basic.

This book was the most helpful book for my Sport injuries and prevention module. It came quickly and soon I had friends begging me to let them see the book. I love it because each injury is set out really clearly with preventative stuff too. That book was the main reason I got a really high mark in that module. If you are studying anything to do with sports injury GET THIS BOOK!

Great book to help with my college sport studies course. Will continue to use to help prevent injuries. Easy to read and well layer out book, loads on information on all different types of injury, prevention and rehabilitation.

This book helped me pass my exams! I’m a sports massage therapist and it is a really useful tool helping me find information very quickly/easily. Each injury has its own page and doesn’t babble on like other books. It is informative, correct and clear. Would recommend to all!

As a distance runner of forty years experience I found Brad Walkers second edition The Anatomy of Sports Injuries an excellent purchase. It has clear detailed text and illustrations and is a must for any serious athlete,. It now sits alongside Brads Anatomy of Stretching on my shelf and is in constant use.

This book has a lot of great information, but I found the recommended exercise for my specific injury dated. It has been returned

simple access to information on how to prevent sports injuries.

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I love this book! It was exactly what I wanted if not better!

The Anatomy of Sports Injuries is a great 'go to' reference for home use, or - in my case - a personal training studio. We train a cross section of people, from athletes to stay at home moms, business men and women to teachers, doctors, dentists and lawyers. Bottom line is most will, at some point, develop a 'sports injury' of one kind or another. This particular book doesn't go into great detail on specific injuries, but it is a wonderful, quick reference source to determine the actual injury, prognosis, and treatment plan. There are even a few specific exercises for each trauma. Additionally, the layout, by area of the body, allows one to rapidly find the specific locale and possible injury. This is almost always the first book I refer to regarding an injury, then I may or may not proceed to less user friendly books to obtain additional information. Great book. Couldn't recommend it more highly.

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