Sports Injuries: A Self-Help Guide

Sports Injuries: A Self-Help Guide

by VivianGrisogono (Author)

Synopsis

The best-selling comprehensive guide to sports injuries, now completely updated! Sports Injuries: a Self-Help Guide describes how the body works, why injuries happen in adults and children, how to deal with them, whom to consult, complications and consequences of injuries, recovery through rehabilitation exercise programmes, safety measures and injury prevention. Three hundred line drawings illustrate a full range of recovery exercises through stretching, strengthening, mobilizing, and coordinating. This is an essential book for sports participants, coaches, personal trainers, PE teachers, parents, sports science and sports therapy students, and is also a useful reference tool for doctors and therapists.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publisher: Lotus Publishing
Published: 28 Feb 2012

ISBN 10: 1905367287
ISBN 13: 9781905367283

Media Reviews
Sports Injuries' is likely to become a standard 294-page classic of commonsense. Ian Wooldridge, Daily Mail Clearly written in language which everyone can understand and copiously illustrated, the book should find a place in every athlete's library. Athlete's World Every chapter contains invaluable information for both amateur and professional sportsmen, as well as trainers and teachers Sports Industry, London
Author Bio
Vivian Grisogono specializes in the treatment and prevention of sports injuries, and the promotion of fitness and good health. She has worked for over thirty years treating problems in professional and elite sports competitors, fitness enthusiasts and the non-sporting, covering all age groups and most sports and fitness activities. Author of nine books, she set up the sports injuries clinic at Crystal Palace National Sports Centre in London, has been a British Olympic team physiotherapist, and was the first physiotherapist to be awarded an honorary lectureship to the London Hospital Sports Medicine Diploma Course for doctors.