Overview
- Brings readers up-to-date on the diagnosis and treatment of sports injuries
- Pays detailed attention to biomechanics and injury prevention
- Examines pediatric sports injuries, extreme sports injuries and the role of physiotherapy
- Evaluates sports injuries of each part of musculoskeletal System
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (266 entries)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Shoulder Injuries
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About this book
Sports Injuries: Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment and Rehabilitation covers the whole field of sports injuries and is an up-to-date guide for the diagnosis and treatment of the full range of sports injuries. The work pays detailed attention to biomechanics and injury prevention, examines the emerging treatment role of current strategies and evaluates sports injuries of each part of musculoskeletal system. In addition, pediatric sports injuries, extreme sports injuries, the role of physiotherapy, and future developments are extensively discussed. All those who are involved in the care of patients with sports injuries will find this textbook to be an invaluable, comprehensive, and up-to-date reference.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Prof. Mahmut Nedim Doral, M.D., is internationally recognized for his expertise in orthopedic sports medicine. He has authored over 150 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals and over 15 book chapters in internationally published books; he also acts as a referee for four national and five international journals. His last book, Sports Injuries: Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment and Rehabilitation, was published by Springer in 2011. For over 30 years, Dr. Doral’s major research interests have been in sports injuries and rehabilitation, arthroscopic and endoscopic surgery, basic science research in tendon injuries, and knee arthroplasty.
He is the chairman of the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology and the Department of Sports Medicine at the Hacettepe University Medical School.
Dr. Doral is the medical chief and health system organizer of Galatasaray Sports Club Youth Teams.
He has been the director of the Hacettepe University Sports Medicine Center since 1995. He has been board member (2003–2009), program committee member (2004–2012), and membership committee chairman (2007–2011) of the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery & Orthopaedic Sports Medicine (ISAKOS). He is also a past member of the scientific committee of European Society of Sports Traumatology Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA). He currently serves in the Executive Council of the Turkish National Olympic Committee; as executive committee chair of and
newsletter editor at the Asia Pacific Orthopaedic Associations; and also as newsletter editor at the European Federation of Orthopaedic Sports Traumatology (EFOST).Dr. Doral served as president of the Turkish Society of Orthopaedics & Traumatology (TOTBID) (2010–2011). He was the past president of EFOST (2000–2003), Asia-Pacific Knee Society (APKS/Knee Section of APOA) (2004–2006), and the Turkish Society of Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy and Knee Surgery
(2002–2004), and past chief of the Medical Committee Turkish Federation of National Basketball Team. He is the founder and past president of the Turkish Society of Sports Traumatology. He was honored as distinguished visiting professor by the University of Pittsburgh School of Engineering in 2006 and Kentucky University in 2009.Prof. Jon Karlsson, M.D., Ph.D., was born in Iceland, where he graduated from the medical school in Reykjavik in 1978 and moved to Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1981. He defended his Ph.D. thesis on “Chronic Lateral Ankle Instability” at the Gothenburg University in 1989 and was appointed associate professor in 1990. He has been senior consultant in the Orthopaedic Department of the Sahlgrenska University Hospital since 1991 and clinical head during 1997–2001. Since 2001, Dr. Karlsson has been the academic head at the Sahlgrenska Academy. In that capacity, he mentored 32 Ph.D. theses and was appointed chief of the orthopedic research laboratory. He is author of more than300 pe
er-reviewed papers and 26 books on orthopedics and sports traumatology. He was appointed professor of orthopedics and sports traumatology in 1998. He was president of the Swedish Association of Sports Medicine in 1999–2001.Since 2008, Dr. Karlsson has been editor-in-chief of KSSTA (Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy), the official journal of the European Society of Sports Traumatology Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA). He has been program chairman of the biannual ESSKA congress for 2006, 2008, and 2010 and board member of the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery & Orthopaedic Sports Medicine (ISAKOS) since 2005. He is currently secretary of the ISAKOS Executive Board.
Active in sports, Dr. Karlsson played basketball and is currently the caretaking physician of the Swedish soccer team IFK Gothenburg.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sports Injuries
Book Subtitle: Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment and Rehabilitation
Editors: Mahmut Nedim Doral, Jon Karlsson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36569-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Medicine, Reference Module Medicine
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-36568-3Published: 14 July 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-36569-0Published: 29 June 2015
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: CXI, 3330
Number of Illustrations: 838 b/w illustrations, 901 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sports Medicine, Orthopedics, Traumatic Surgery