Sports Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation Integrating Medicine and Science for Performance Solutions

World-class rehabilitation of the injured athlete integrates best practice in sports medicine and physical therapy with training and conditioning techniques based on cutting-edge sports science. In this ground-breaking new book, leading sports injury and rehabilitation professionals, strength and conditioning coaches, biomechanists and sport scientists show how this integrated model works across the spectrum of athlete care. In every chapter, there is a sharp focus on the return to performance, rather than just a return to play.

The book introduces evidence-based best practice in all the core areas of sports injury risk management and rehabilitation, including:

• performance frameworks for medical and injury screening;
• the science of pain and the psychology of injury and rehabilitation;
• developing core stability and flexibility;
• performance retraining of muscle, tendon and bone injuries;
• recovery from training and rehabilitation;
• end-stage rehabilitation, testing and training for a return to performance.

Every chapter offers a masterclass from a range of elite sport professionals, containing best practice protocols, procedures and specimen programmes designed for high performance. No other book examines rehabilitation in such detail from a high performance standpoint.

Sports Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation is essential reading for any course in sports medicine and rehabilitation, strength and conditioning, sports science, and for any clinician, coach or high performance professional working to prevent or rehabilitate sports injuries.

Part 1: The Performance Team 1. Reconditioning: A Performance-Based Response to Injury 2. Strength and Conditioning in Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation 3. Psychology in Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation 4. Nutrition in Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation Part 2: Athletic Competencies 5. Medical Assessment and Pre-Participation Evaluations 6. The Athletic and Injury Screening Process 7. Assessing the Kinetic Chain, Asymmetries and Compensations 8. Assessing Athletic Qualities 9. Running Mechanics in Injury Prevention and Performance 10. Landing Mechanics in Injury Prevention and Performance 11. Throwing Mechanics in Injury Prevention and Performance 12. Core Stability in Injury Prevention and Performance 13. Flexibility in Injury Prevention and Performance Part 3: Injury Processes, Prevention and Return to Performance 14. Muscle Injury 15. Tendon Injury 16. Bone Injury 17. The Effect of Pain on Performance 18. Determining Return to Play Part 4: Managing the Injured Athlete 19. The Athletic Neck 20. The Athletic Shoulder 21. The Athletic Elbow 22. The Athletic Spine 23. The Athletic Hip and Groin 24. The Athletic Knee 25. The Athletic Shin 26. The Athletic Foot and Ankle Part 5: Managing the Training Athlete 27. The Integrated Approach to Managing the Season 28. Monitoring Training Load 29. Optimizing Athlete Recovery 30. Environmental Stress Part 6: Special Considerations 31. The Developing Athlete 32. The Female Athlete 33. The Travelling Athlete

David Joyce is an athletic performance and rehabilitation specialist who has worked at the highest levels of world sport. He holds Masters degrees in both sports physiotherapy and strength and conditioning and has worked at two Olympic Games as a physiotherapist and performance coach (with Team Great Britain at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and with Team China at the 2012 Olympics in London). David is the co-editor and key contributor of High Performance Training for Sports and is currently the Head of Athletic Performance at the Greater Western Sydney Giants in the Australian Football League, and provides high performance and leadership consultancy services to elite organisations worldwide

Dan Lewindon is a Physiotherapist and rehabilitation specialist with over 12 years’ experience in elite level sport. He has completed MScs in both sports medicine and exercise science (strength and conditioning). Dan was appointed Physiotherapist for the England Senior Rugby Team in 2009. He is also the co-editor and key contributor to High Performance Training for Sports