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The Anatomy of Sports Injuries: Your Illustrated Guide to Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment - Softcover

Walker, Brad

 
9781905367382: The Anatomy of Sports Injuries: Your Illustrated Guide to Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment

Synopsis

For anyone who plays sports and is looking to facilitate recovery or prevent injuries 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 working with elite-level and world-champion athletes and lecturing 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. This second edition features 350 images, including updated illustrations and more anatomical information. It 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.

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About the Author

Brad Walker is a health science graduate of the University of New England and has postgraduate accreditations in athletics, swimming, and triathlon coaching. He has coached elite-level and world champion athletes from a variety of sports―triathlon, motorcycle racing, roller-skating, squash, and baseball― and has lectured extensively on sports injury prevention and rehabilitation.

Walker is an authority on stretching and flexibility, and his work has been featured on About.com, Athletes.com, and BodyBuilding.com as well as in Runner’s World, Bicycling, Triathlete, Swimming and Fitness, and Triathlon Sports. He is founder and CEO of the Stretching Institute and StretchCoach.com, director of education for StretchLab, and author of The Anatomy of Stretching.

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