Sports Injuries: A Unique Guide to Self-Diagnosis and Rehabilitation, 3e

Sports Injuries provides an indispensable self-help guide to all the common injuries that occur. This book will help to quickly pinpoint the source of the injury, know which conditions you can treat yourself and when to visit an expert, stay fit and flexible during recovery, and encourage your body to heal faster. Easy-to-follow illustrations help you to locate the area of pain quickly then guide you through a range of simple self-diagnostic tests and medical options. Once the problem and course of care are determined, unique fitness ladders tell you what you can do to stay mobile and how to avoid further injury. Clear illustrations delineate the anatomical area, joint or muscle under consideration Highly templated format gives diagnosis, cause, treatment (self or medical) and training points for each injury Includes self-tests with diagrams to help pinpoint the specific injuries Provides training ladders for safe rehabilitation of injury Front Cover 1 Sports Injuries 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 How to get the most out of this book 7 About the authors 9 Chapter 1: How to avoid injuries in the first place 10 Three Simple Rules 11 Stretching Exercises 12 Some Sensible Tips 17 Rice 17 Your Injury Kit 19 A-Z of Tips 21 Chapter 2: Guide to treatments 39 A-Z of Self and Medical Treatments 40 A-Z of Common Ailments and How to Deal with Them 49 Chapter 3: Top-to-toe guide to injuries: Diagnosis, cause, treatment and training 53 How to Use this Section 54 Serious Injuries 59 Head 60 Eyes 62 Nose 64 Ears 65 Neck and Shoulder 67 Neck and Chest 71 Shoulder 75 Elbow 84 Wrist and Hand 93 Back 100 Lower Back Pain 103 Low Back Pain 105 Problem Backs 106 Hip and Pelvis 113 Uper Leg 121 Back of Upper Leg 123 Knee 126 Swelling/Fluid on Knee 129 Injuries Due to Overloading Thigh Muscle Mechanism 132 Pain on Inside of Knee 135 Pain on Outside of Knee 138 Pain on Back of Knee 141 Lower Leg 143 Achilles Tendon 147 Ankle 152 Foot and Toes 159 Toes 166 Chapter 4: How to recover from an injury 169 Dr Malcolm Read’s Training Ladders for Rehabilitation 170 Basic Patter Routine 172 Home and Workplace 187 Chapter 5: Sport-by-sport guide to technical injuries 190 Chapter 6: A-Z of medical terms 218 Index 226 An indispensable self-help guide to all the common sports injuries that occur, this book helps readers quickly pinpoint the source of their injury, know which conditions can be treated on their own, when to visit an expert, stay fit and flexible during recovery, and encourage their body to heal faster.