Clinical Sports Medicine: Foundations of Clinical Practice, 6th Edition, 6th Edition (EPUB)

by Peter Brukner, Karim Khan

“I’ve worked in a wide range of settings and been fortunate to teach health professionals and to learn from the best. Despite all that experience, I still find Clinical Sports Medicine extremely useful. It makes me, and my athletes, better. Very easy to quickly check in the clinic. Love every new edition―have not been disappointed.”Mario Bizzini, PT, PhD, Former Executive Board Member, International Federation of Sports Physical Therapy (IFSPT)
Now in its sixth edition, the world-leading series Brukner & Khan’s Clinical Sports Medicine is a practical guide to physiotherapy and musculoskeletal medicine. Written for students and those early in their careers, this first book in the collection, Foundations of Clinical Practice, guides you on how to be a great patient-focused clinician. It lays out the clinical sciences that underpin our field, and details the principles of assessment and multidisciplinary treatment.
Key features• 87 practice pearls that turn years of clinical experience into expert advice• 380 figures, 280 of which are new to this edition• 74 feature boxes to highlight advanced clinical issues• 69 QR codes with hours of additional content
What’s new• Chapter outline, learning objectives and key points for every chapter• 16 new chapters covering how to be a better clinician, how to interpret clinical sciences, and the principles that underpin quality clinical practice• All chapters reworked from scratch by 90 world-leading experts
OTHER BOOKS IN THIS THREE-PART SERIESClinical Sports Medicine 6e: Managing Injuries is the how-to manual on diagnosing and treating sport-related injuriesClinical Sports Medicine 6e: The Medicine of Exercise is for clinicians who prescribe exercise to promote health and who treat exercise-related medical conditions (e.g. exercise-induced asthma)