• Sports Injuries and Rehabilitation

Sports Injuries and Rehabilitation Steff Murphy

  • ISBN: 9781788824071
  • Edition: 1st
  • ©Year: 2020

  • List Price : 150

About the Book

Every physical activity gives us something to learn, increases our fitness components makes one confident and refresher or recharges us to lead life happy. On other side participation in games and sports may lead to injury. The injury can be the minor one, serious, career ending or even some times life threatening. An athlete can face injuries at any time i.e. during main competition, in regular practice reasons or in off-season training also. Sports injuries continue to increase in organized or varsity athletics and in the general population because of the increased interest in fitness and sports. In the present study, all major sports, injuries including foot and ankle, knee, hip flexors, hip joints, shoulders, head, forearm muscles, wrist joints, arm muscles, elbow joints, pelvic, calf, etc., are described in detail in simple English language so that to reach its readers. The present book entitled Sports Injuries and Rehabilitation highlights all the aspects of sports injuries. The book is arranged in a lucid form and written in simple spoken English language. Hopefully, the present book will prove useful for clinicians, physiotherapists, sportsmen and sportswomen, students, teachers and for the general readers too.

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Contents: 1. Introduction, 2. Posture, 3. Rehabilitation Exercise, 4. Massage, 5. Sports Injuries Care, Treatment and Support, 6. Movement Analysis, 7. Motion and Force, 8. Skeletal Muscles and Exercise, 9. Upper Extremity Injuries and Exercise, 10. Lower Extremity Injuries and Exercise.
Steff Murphy, Ph.D., is professor of sports medicine. He has a Health Science graduate and has postgraduate accreditations in athletics, swimming and triathlon coaching. He also works with elite level and world champion athletes and lectures for Sports Medicine on injury prevention. He is also internationally recognized for his expertise in orthopedic sports medicine. He has authored over 85 scientific articles in peer- reviewed journals and over 23 book chapters in internationally published books; he also acts as a referee for seven national and twelve international journals. He is also a past member of the scientific committee of National Society of Sports. Steff Murphy has lectured internationally in injury screening, rehabilitation and prevention strategies. He is currently working on a professional doctorate investigating different learning approaches in the development of clinical reasoning skills on undergraduate sports rehabilitation programmes

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