Handball Sports Medicine

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvii

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2. Basic and Applied Sciences

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Physical Characteristics of the Handball Player

      • Ronnie Lidor, Gal Ziv

      Pages 3-14

   3. On-Court Physical Demands and Physiological Aspects in Elite Team Handball

      • Lars Bojsen Michalsik

      Pages 15-33

   4. Endocrinological Aspects in Handball

      • Alon Eliakim, Dan Nemet

      Pages 35-45

   5. The Shoulder Profile in Team Handball

      • Georg Fieseler, Kevin G. Laudner, Souhail Hermassi, Rene Schwesig

      Pages 47-60

   6. Biomechanical Aspects in Handball: Lower Limb

      • Mette K. Zebis, Jesper Bencke

      Pages 61-68

   7. Throwing Biomechanics: Aspects of Throwing Performance and Shoulder Injury Risk

      • Jesper Bencke, Roland van den Tillaar, Merete Møller, Herbert Wagner

      Pages 69-79

   8. Nutrition and Hydration for Handball

      • Jorge Molina-López, Elena Planells

      Pages 81-101

3. The Handball Medical Perimeter/Medical Preparation and Aspects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

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   2. Assembling a Medical Team: The Medical Needs of a Handball Team

      • Celeste Geertsema, Nebojsa Popovic, Paul Dijkstra, Lior Laver, Markus Walden

      Pages 105-114

   3. The Role of Pre-Participation Assessment (PPA) and Screening in Handball

      • Stephen Targett, Tone Bere, Roald Bahr

      Pages 115-124

   4. Medical Coverage of Major Competitions in Handball

      • Katharina Grimm, Nebojsa Popovic, Pieter D’Hooghe

      Pages 125-138

4. Handball Injuries

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139

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   2. Handball Injuries: Epidemiology and Injury Characterization: Part 1

      • Lior Laver, Patrick Luig, Leonard Achenbach, Grethe Myklebust, Jon Karlsson

      Pages 141-153

   3. Handball Injuries: Epidemiology and Injury Characterization: Part 2

      • Lior Laver, Patrick Luig, Leonard Achenbach, Grethe Myklebust, Jon Karlsson

      Pages 155-165

   4. Head and Neck Injuries in Handball

      • Markus Wurm, Lior Laver

      Pages 167-176

   5. Shoulder Injuries in Handball

      • Philippe Landreau, Matthias A. Zumstein, Przemyslaw Lubiatowski, Lior Laver

      Pages 177-195

   6. Shoulder Instability in Handball Players

      • Lior Laver, Przemyslaw Lubiatowski, Matthias A. Zumstein, Philippe Landreau

      Pages 197-216

   7. Elbow Injury in Handball: Overuse Injuries

      • Nebojsa Popovic

      Pages 217-225

This book is designed to help improve the medical care of athletes across the world who play team handball – including not only handball itself but also such sports as beach volleyball and mini-handball. It provides concise practical information on the nature of frequently encountered injuries, the management of these injuries, injury prevention, and rehabilitation following treatment. Individual sections also focus on physiologic, endocrinologic, biomechanical, and nutritional aspects; special considerations in particular groups of players; and psychological issues. The medical needs of a handball team are explained, and guidance offered on preparticipation assessment and screening. All of the authors are leaders in their field. Their excellent teamwork ensures that the book, published in collaboration with ESSKA, will represent a superb, comprehensive educational resource. It will meet the needs of both handball medical caregivers and handball personnel, providing readily accessibleanswers to a wide range of medical questions and facilitating effective collaboration among the various professionals involved in team handball.

• Injury
• Sports Physiology
• Prevention
• Rehabilitation
• Athlete

• Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, Coventry, United Kingdom

  Lior Laver

• Department of Surgery, Aspetar - Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar

  Philippe Landreau

• Clinique d’Eich, Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg Clinique d’Eich, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

  Romain Seil

• Aspetar - Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College, Doha, Qatar

  Nebojsa Popovic

Dr. Lior Laver, MD: A Sports Orthopaedic surgeon, originally from Israel with a main interest and focus on arthroscopic treatment of sports related injuries of the knee, hip and shoulder. With the mixture of practical, grass-root level experience and academic credentials Dr. Laver is highly active in the international sports medicine stage with frequent appearances in the top international sports medicine conferences. His main field of research is treatment outcomes and return to sport decision making athletic populations. He has published many peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and is a reviewer for KSSTA, the official journal of ESSKA. He is also a board member in the esteemed ESSKA arthroscopy committee as well as the new European Sports Medicine Associates (ESMA). Dr. Laver brings a unique perspective, combining his personal experience as a former professional handball player at high international level and the hands on medical experience that he has accumulated internationally with some of the highest level organizations such as the FC Barcelona football club in Spain, Duke University athletics department (football and basketball) in the US and Israeli top clubs as Maccabi Tel-Aviv football club, Bnei-HaSharon basketball club, the Israeli national teams in volleyball and of course – handball national teams. He is currently involved in establishing the medical/scientific platform in the European Handball Federation (EHF) and has recently organized the EHF Scientific meeting in Romania (2015) and the ESSKA-EHF symposium in Barcelona (2016).



Philippe Landreau, MD, is an Orthopaedic Surgeon and currently the Chief of Surgery at Aspetar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital in Doha, Qatar. He established and is heading the first Sports Surgery Training Center in the Middle East 
He specializes in sports traumatology, knee, shoulder and arthroscopic surgery. Before joining Aspetar, he previously worked in Paris, France, where he combined private and public surgical activity (Clinique du Sport, American Hospital of Paris, Hôpital La Pitié- Salpétrière). Throughout his career, Dr Landreau was the reference surgeon for numerous regional and national sports teams including the Stade Français Rugby team, the French National Judo team, the French National Handball feminine team, and the American Football Flash team, etc.He is currently Co-Chairman of the Development Committee of ISAKOS (International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine) and member of the ISAKOS Program Committee. In addition, Dr Landreau partakes multiple editorial positions in the field of sports traumatology including the Director of Book Collection, Editor- In- Chief, and member of the Scientific Committee of several publications. .


Prof. Seil studied medicine in Luxembourg and Brussels. He trained in Belgium and Germany (Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery,University of Saarland Medical School, Homburg/Saar-Germany). He wrote his doctoral thesis on meniscal repair and his professoral thesis on pediatric anterior cruciate ligament injuries. Prof. Seil works as an orthopaedic surgeon at the Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg where he is Head of the Department of the musculoskeletal system. His main areas of clinical activity are orthopaedic sports medicine as well as primary and revision knee reconstructive surgery. He is extraordinary professor in orthopaedic surgery at the University of Saarland, Homburg Saar, co-director of the Luxembourg Olympic Medical Centre and of the Sports Medicine Research Laboratory of the “Luxembourg Institute of Health”. Prof. Seil serves as editorial board member, board of trustee’s member or co-editor in several scientific journals in orthopaedic surgery, sports medicine and arthroscopy. He authored and co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and book chapters. Prof. Seil is a former handball player and author of early publications on handball injuries. He is currently President of the European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA), as well as incoming president of the German-speaking Society in Orthopaedic and Traumatologic Sports Medicine (GOTS). From 2003 until 2005, he was chairman of the arthroscopy committee of the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine (ISAKOS). In 2014 he was president of the Annual Meeting of the French Arthroscopy Society in Luxembourg and in 2016 he served as president of the Annual Meeting of the GOTS in Munich. 



Nebojsa Popovic MD PhD is an orthopaedic and sports medicine surgeon pioneering surgical services at Aspetar since the opening in 2007 .He is    Senior  Medical Advisor to the Director General  at Aspetar  Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital . He is Associated Professor of Clinical Orthopedic Surgery at Weil Cornell Medical School and visiting Professor at Medical School University of Belgrade.Dr Popovic’s previous positions have been Clinical Chief in the Orthopedic Department at  UniversityHospital Liege Belgium.He published more then 70 scientific paper ,two Books and numerous chapters.Dr Popovic is Editor in Chief of Aspetar Sport Medicine Journal.He was himself a world class handball player ,playing 160 times for National team of ex Yugoslavia . He won a Gold Medal in the sport at the 1972 Olympics Games in Munich, , and European Champions League 1976 with his club.He was twice selected for the World All Stars Handball Team .In 1988 in Seoul and 1992 in Barcelona  Olympic Games he served as Chief Medical Officer of Yugoslavian Olympic team. . Since 2013 he has been a Member of the Medical Commission of the World Olympian Association and in 2015 served as President of the Medical Commission for the 24th Men’s World Handball Championship. 

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