This new edition contains expanded and updated descriptions of the care of the injured runner. Reflecting ongoing development, additional discussions include clinical gait analysis, musculoskeletal ultrasound, heat tolerance testing, exercise-associated collapse, and emerging therapies. Supplanting the scattered and often imprecise information found in orthopedics manuals and general sports medicine texts, this authoritative and expert-authored medical resource features:
- The most extensive source of running-injury management expertise to be found anywhere
- Details on running-injury commonalities, diagnosis, and treatment
- In-depth coverage of injuries most often incurred in specific types of running, such as sprinting and marathoning
- Rehabilitation guidelines
- Surgical considerations
- Coverage of running-injury-related medical problems
- Valued strategies to help patients continue running and training during recovery
- Injury-prevention regimens and tips that can also help trainers, coaches, and runners themselves
- More than 150 exceptionally informative line drawings and photographs
