Editors:
- Very useful for daily practice with sports injuries, on the sports ground
- Book on hand injuries with special focus on sports men and women
- The main points are summarized in a small table/box at the end of each chapter
Part of the book series: Sports and Traumatology (SPORTS)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Neglected finger injuries may lead to chronic lesions that often have detrimental consequences for the practice of a ball sport, whether at a recreational level or at the top athlete level. The initial injury management is crucial. Depending on the type and the severity of the lesions, different people may get involved: the players themselves or their entourage, physiotherapists, club doctors, emergency physicians, family doctors, sports doctors or hand surgeons. Treatment is usually conservative: the long fingers require rapid mobilization to prevent stiffness and contrary to that, the thumb requires stability. Surgery may be necessary to reach these goals especially for athletes, because of the demands of their sport. Chronic lesions are also in part related to repeated trauma, requiring specialized long-term multidisciplinary treatment. They can often lead to the end of a sporting career, but also may limit the functionality of the fingers at the time of conversion.
Dr Chick is Consultant Hand Surgeon in Hôpital de la Tour (Geneva) and Clinique de Genolier, Switzerland, and Visiting Surgeon in Aspetar, Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar.
Editors and Affiliations
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Hand and Wrist Unit, Hôpital de la Tour, Geneva, Switzerland
Grégoire Chick
About the editor
Dr Chick is Consultant Hand Surgeon in Hôpital de la Tour (Geneva) and Clinique de Genolier, Switzerland, and Visiting Surgeon in Aspetar, Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Acute and Chronic Finger Injuries in Ball Sports
Editors: Grégoire Chick
Series Title: Sports and Traumatology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-2-8178-0382-1
Publisher: Springer Paris
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag France 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-2-8178-0381-4Published: 05 August 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-2-8178-0551-1Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-2-8178-0382-1Published: 09 July 2013
Series ISSN: 2105-0759
Series E-ISSN: 2105-0538
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 868
Number of Illustrations: 39 b/w illustrations, 288 illustrations in colour
Topics: Orthopedics, Sports Medicine, Rehabilitation