Clinical Sports Medicine: Foundations of Clinical Practice

<p><b><i>“I’ve worked in a wide range of settings and been fortunate to teach health professionals and to learn from the best. Despite all that experience, I still find </i>Clinical Sports Medicine<i> extremely useful. It makes me, and my athletes, better. Very easy to quickly check in the clinic. Love every new edition—have not been disappointed.”</i></b><br/>Mario Bizzini, PT, PhD, Former Executive Board Member, International Federation of Sports Physical Therapy (IFSPT)</p><p>Now in its sixth edition, the world-leading series <i>Brukner & Khan’s Clinical Sports Medicine</i> is a practical guide to physiotherapy and musculoskeletal medicine. Written for students and those early in their careers, this first book in the collection, <i>Foundations of Clinical Practice</i>, guides you on how to be a great patient-focused clinician. It lays out the clinical sciences that underpin our field, and details the principles of assessment and multidisciplinary treatment.</p><p><b>Key features</b><br/>• 87 practice pearls that turn years of clinical experience into expert advice<br/>• 380 figures, 280 of which are new to this edition<br/>• 74 feature boxes to highlight advanced clinical issues<br/>• 69 QR codes with hours of additional content</p><p><b>What’s new</b><br/>• Chapter outline, learning objectives and key points for every chapter<br/>• 16 new chapters covering how to be a better clinician, how to interpret clinical sciences, and the principles that underpin quality clinical practice<br/>• All chapters reworked from scratch by 90 world-leading experts</p><p><b>OTHER BOOKS IN THIS THREE-PART SERIES</b><br/><b><i>Clinical Sports Medicine 6e: Managing Injuries</i></b> is the how-to manual on diagnosing and treating sport-related injuries<br/><b><i>Clinical Sports Medicine 6e: The Medicine of Exercise</i></b> is for clinicians who prescribe exercise to promote health and who treat exercise-related medical conditions (e.g. exercise-induced asthma)</p>