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- Basic guide to common hand and wrist sports injuries and their management
- Easy reference to etiology, diagnosis, relevant pathology, management principles, and outcomes
- Offers key learning points for easy and quick memorization
It is aimed at Sports Docs, Therapists and General Orthopaedic Surgeons with the content being predominantly about Aetiology, Diagnosis, Relevant pathology, Management principles (no lengthy surgical detail) and Outcomes - 1. Basic guide to common and upper limb sports injuries and their management - for each region (shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand)
- 2. The book is based on the experience and research of three surgeons that have treated numerous elite and non-elite athletes over more than a decade.
- 3. It is aimed at sports doctors, musculoskeletal doctors, senior orthopaedic trainees with an interest in upper limb, orthopaedic trainees preparing for the FRCSOrth exam and similar international exams, as well as upper limb surgeons in the earlier years of their practice. It can be used as a course book for postgraduate musculoskeletal doctors and therapists for Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine postgraduate degrees
Table of Contents- Mallet finger injuries.-
- Flexor digitorum profundus avulsion injuries.-
- Fractures and dislocations of the proximal interphalangeal joint.-
- Phalangeal fractures in the athlete.-
- Climber’s pulley injuries.- Metacarpal fractures in the athlete.-
- Thumb fractures.-
- Hand injuries in the elite boxer.-
- Scaphoid fractures.-
- Carpal fractures (excluding scaphoid).-
- Scapholunate ligament injuries.-
- Injuries to the triangular fibrocartilage complex.-
- Injuries to the extensor carpi ulnaris and its investments in the athlete.-
- Chronic exertional compartment syndrome of the forearm.
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