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

I am an experienced masseur taking a sports massage to add to my qualifications, I am also a gym member and do exercise classes. The sports injury side of the course is completely new to me so I bought this as a text book to follow-up on the lessons. As with Walker's book on Stretches it is comprehensive without being too technical. The injuries are in 12 sections relating to parts of the body e.g. Skin, Head & Neck, Elbow, Chest & Abdomen, Hamstrings & Quads, etc. each with its own A&P (bones, joints & muscles). Each type of injury e.g. Sprain, Dislocation, Rupture, etc. comes with notes on What sports they are usually sustained in, Cause, Signs & symptoms, Complications, Immediate treatment, Rehabilitation and prevention, and Long-term prognosis, many with explanatory pictures and rehabilitation exercises if appropriate. Where medical terms are used there is an explanation or the name a 'lay person' would be familiar with, e.g. "Epistaxis, or nosebleed occurs when ....". Other sections cover; Explanation of injury, Prevention, and Treatment & rehabilitation management from first 3 minutes through all phases of recovery to the final stage of regaining fitness. There is also a list of anatomical directions and a glossary of terms.

This book helped me pass my exams! I’m a sports massage therapist and it is a really useful tool helping me find information very quickly/easily. Each injury has its own page and doesn’t babble on like other books. It is informative, correct and clear. Would recommend to all!

Still working my way through what looks like a essential read. It was recommended to me and I can see why

Nice quality, good page thickness. Upon a brief flick through of the book, diagrams are clear and labelled well, and are in colour too which is nice! Most, if not all, areas of the body seem to mentioned, I like how there are sections dedicated to specific areas of the body and within those sections are different injuries, which is accompanied by an explanation of the injury, a diagram, symptoms and prognosis.

Fantastic illustrations. Hopefully I’ll never need it but I have a companion by the same author (Stretching) which is so detailed and well done, I had to have this one

As a distance runner of forty years experience I found Brad Walkers second edition The Anatomy of Sports Injuries an excellent purchase. It has clear detailed text and illustrations and is a must for any serious athlete,. It now sits alongside Brads Anatomy of Stretching on my shelf and is in constant use.

Informative book with a description of injuries and recommended exercises to aid recovery. This book was recommended to me by an osteopath I as getting treatment from .

This book has a lot of great information, but I found the recommended exercise for my specific injury dated.It has been returned