Prevention of Injuries and Overuse in Sports

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. General Considerations on Sports-Related Injuries

   • Patricia Thoreux, Pascal Edouard, Antoine Marsaudon, Lise Rochaix

   Pages 1-13

3. Major Causes of Sports Injuries

   • Nicolas Lefevre, Yoann Bohu, Serge Herman, Shahnaz Klouche, Elvire Servien

   Pages 15-25

4. Causes of Overuse in Sports

   • Felix Fischer, Jacques Menetrey, Mirco Herbort, Peter Gföller, Caroline Hepperger, Christian Fink

   Pages 27-38

5. General Prevention Principles of Injuries

   • Stefano Zaffagnini, Federico Raggi, Jorge Silvério, Joao Espregueira-Mendes, Tommaso Roberti di Sarsina, Alberto Grassi

   Pages 39-55

6. General Prevention Principles of Overload Damage in Sports

   • Henrique Jones

   Pages 57-70

7. Special Aspects of Prevention in Children and Adolescents

   • Antonio Maestro, Gorka Vázquez, Manuel Rodríguez, Xavier Torrallardona

   Pages 71-85

8. General Training Aspects in Consideration of Prevention in Sports

   • Karlheinz Waibel, Henrique Jones, Christoph Schabbehard, Bernd Thurner

   Pages 87-99

9. Specific Aspects of Throwing Sports in Recreational and Competitive Sport

   • Joris R. Lansdaal, Michel P. J. van den Bekerom, Ann M. J. Cools, Val Jones, Nicolas Lefevre, Elvire Servien

   Pages 101-115

10. Specific Aspects of Football in Recreational and Competitive Sport

    • Peter Angele, Helmut Hoffmann, Andrew Williams, Mary Jones, Werner Krutsch

    Pages 117-136

11. Specific Aspects of Alpine Skiing in Recreational and Competitive Sport (FIS)

    • Hermann O. Mayr, Martin Auracher, Max Merkel, Florian Müller, Karlheinz Waibel

    Pages 137-155

12. Implementation of Prevention in Sports

    • Stefano Della Villa, Margherita Ricci, Francesco Della Villa, Mario Bizzini

    Pages 157-166

13. Back Matter

    Pages 167-172

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​This book, published in cooperation with ESSKA, is a comprehensive, evidence-based manual on the prevention of injuries and overuse in sports that will assist physicians, physiotherapists, and trainers in providing excellent mental and physical guidance to athletes. The causes of overuse and sports injuries are carefully analyzed, explaining the medical basis for prevention. In addition, detailed attention is paid to the relationship between sport motivation, risk willingness, tendency to overload, and tendency to increased risk of injury. The reader is effectively trained in mental and physical analysis of the athlete and will gain an appreciation of the influence of the athlete’s environment on susceptibility to injury. Gender-specific differences and the specific risks faced by children and adolescents are identified, and very popular sports such as soccer, alpine skiing, and throwing sports are discussed in individual chapters. Training schedules of value in the context of particular physiotherapeutic and medical interventions are described with the help of illustrations and charts. The authors are team physicians, coaches, sports scientists, training scientists, and physiotherapists involved in high-performance sports and recreational sports.

• Injury pattern
• Prevention program
• Recovery
• Regeneration
• Ski injuries
• Soccer injuries
• Training
• conservative orthopedics

• Schoen Clinic Munich Harlaching, Munich, Germany

  Hermann O. Mayr

• Istituti Ortopedico Rizzoli Clinica Ortopedica Traumatologica I, Bologna, Italy

  Stefano Zaffagnini

Hermann Otto Mayr, MD, PhD, is a renowned Orthopedic Surgeon and Trauma Surgeon who has been Executive Physician of the Clinic for Orthopedic Surgery, Munich, Germany, since 2003. He is also a Research Associate in the Department of Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery at the University of Freiburg, Germany, and in 2012 was appointed Extraordinary Professor at the university. Dr. Mayr is currently Chair of the ESSKA Sports Committee and President of the German Knee Society. He also served as President of the German-speaking Arthroscopy Association from 2009 to 2011. Dr. Mayr has been physician to the German skiing team since 1990. He has been responsible for various inventions and is the holder of several patents.

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