The cornerstone text on sports and exercise medicine

Brukner & Khan's Clinical Sports Medicine is the world-leading title in sports and exercise medicine, providing an authoritative foundation for clinicians and students. This complete practical guide to physiotherapy and musculoskeletal medicine covers all aspects of diagnosis and contemporary management of sports-related injuries.
 
This fifth edition has been expanded to accommodate a much higher level of evidence-based content. It reflects the huge amount of new research and significant changes in thinking since the fourth edition was published.
For this volume, Injuries, all chapters have been comprehensively updated by sports physiotherapists and sports physicians at the top of their fields from around the world.

There are more than 300  new figures and tables, as well as six new chapters including  
• Training programming and prescription
• Return to play
• Pain: the clinical aspects

PART A FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES
1 Sports and exercise medicine: the team approach
2 Integrating evidence into shared decision making with patients
3 Sports injuries: acute
4 Sports injuries: overuse
5 Pain: why and how does it hurt?
6 Pain: the clinical aspects
7 Beware: conditions that masquerade as sports injuries
8 Introduction to clinical biomechanics
9 Biomechanical aspects of injury in specific sports
10 Training programming and prescription
11 Core stability
12 Preventing injury
13 Recovery: the science and the art
14 Clinical assessment: moving from rote to rational and rigorous
15 How to make the diagnosis: tips for better history taking, physical examination and investigation
16 Patient-reported outcome measures in sports medicine
17 Treatments for musculoskeletal conditions
18 Principles of sports injury rehabilitation
19 Return to play
PART B REGIONAL PROBLEMS
20 Sports concussion
21 Headache
22 Face, eye and teeth
23 Neck pain
24 Shoulder pain
25 Elbow and arm pain
26 Wrist pain
27 Hand and finger injuries
28 Thoracic and chest pain
29 Low back pain
30 Buttock pain
31 Hip-related pain
32 Groin pain
33 Anterior thigh pain
34 Posterior thigh pain
35 Acute ankle injuries
36 Anterior knee pain
37 Lateral, medial and posterior knee pain
38 Leg pain
39 Calf pain
40 Pain in the Achilles region
41 Acute ankle injuries
42 Ankle pain
PART C SPECIAL GROUPS OF PARTICIPANTS
44 The younger athlete45 Military personnel
46 Periodic medical assessment of athletes
47 Working and travelling with teams
48 Career development