Clinical Guide to Sports Injuries - Hardcover

Bahr, Roald; Maehlum, Sverre

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0736041176 ISBN 13: 9780736041171

Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers, 2003

Synopsis

This guide to sports injuries is a reference for all those who practice sports medicine. Adopting a problem-orientated approach, it uses a logical progression through problem, diagnosis, treatment to rehabilitation. The information on the CD-ROM can be printed out and shared with patients.

About this title

About the Author

Roald Bahr, MD, PhD, is a professor of sports medicine and chair of the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center and the department of sports medicine at the University of Sport and Physical Education in Oslo, Norway. He is also a consulting physician in the department of sports medicine at the National Sports Center. His primary research area is sports injury prevention. Dr. Bahr is a former national team volleyball player and coach.

Dr. Bahr is certified as a sports medicine physician by the Norwegian Society of Sports Medicine and is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine. He currently serves as a team physician for the Norway national volleyball and golf teams and is secretary of the Medical Commission of the International Volleyball Federation. He is a former president of the Norwegian Society of Sports Medicine.

Dr. Bahr lives with his wife, Ingrid, and their three children in Oslo, Norway. He enjoys playing volleyball and golf in his spare time.

Sverre Maehlum, MD, PhD, is currently the medical director of Pfizer Norway. He has served as chief medical officer for the Norwegian Olympic team at six Olympic Games and worked as a professor of sports medicine at the University of Sport and Physical Education for 10 years. He is a specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation and an authorized sports medicine physician by the Norwegian Society of Sports Medicine. He is a former president of the Norwegian Society of Sports Medicine. His work is widely published in the field of exercise physiology and sports medicine.

Dr. Maehlum lives with his wife, Jorunn, in Oslo, Norway, and enjoys running, playing tennis, and hunting in his free time.

Tommy Bolic, medical illustrator, has sport experience as both a top athlete and coach and has more than 10 years of experience teaching on the topic of sports injuries. He has been a medical illustrator for over 30 years, and his work includes Sports Injuries: Their Prevention and Treatment, by Peterson and Renström. This work has been translated into 10 languages and is the best-selling book on the topic.

Edition details

• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0736041176
• ISBN 13: 9780736041171
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 456