The Anatomy of Sports Injuries

by Brad Walker

Everyone who plays sports experiences injuries. Many people never fully recover because they’re not aware of what they can do to facilitate recovery. But there’s no need to simply resign yourself to “living with” a sports injury. In The Anatomy of Sports Injuries, author Brad Walker brings years of expertise—he works with elite-level and world-champion athletes, and lectures on injury prevention—to this how-to guide. The book takes a fundamental approach, bringing you inside the body to show exactly what is happening when a sports injury occurs. At the heart of The Anatomy of Sports Injuries are 300 full-color illustrations that show the sports injury in detail, along with 200 line drawings of simple stretching, strengthening, and rehabilitation exercises that the reader can use to speed up the recovery process. The Anatomy of Sports Injuries is for every sports player or fitness enthusiast who has been injured and would like to know what the injury involves, how to rehabilitate the area, and how to prevent complications or injury in the future.

Genres: Medicine, Health

256 pages, Paperback

First published August 30, 2007

Reviews

[Jessica Hembree]

I used this book as a resource for a class that I taught at our local homeschool pod. Intro to sports medicine students enjoyed learning how to prevent, diagnose, and treat common sports injuries and conditions.

[Burgandy]

I was really wanting more of test to see what muscle are each injury. the over knowledge is nice though.

[George Parseghian]

Nowadays, they are using POLICE instead of RICER, bcz resting the injured area for 48-72 hours will make things worse for later

[CherylR]

Encyclopedia like

The book is good with many illustrations. It is more geared to physical therapists. Not much new here though. Will use as a reference in the future.

[Ferhat Culfaz]

Phenomenal book. First 2 chapters essential for anyone undertaking excercise or sport. The rest are body specific regions on injuries and how to treat them, and more importantly rehabilitation and excercises. Great example stretches and warm ups for different areas. Excellent diagrams too.