Comprehensive Guide to Pediatric Sports Medicine

The second edition of this best-selling pediatric sports medicine resource offers a step-by-step guide to the examination and evaluation techniques for common sports injuries. This comprehensive guide includes more than 100 images and over 2 hours of video content, covering essential topics such as physical examination keys, when to order radiographs, CT scans, and MRIs, treatment plan development, and preventive strategies.

Case-Based Coverage of Common Injuries

This all-encompassing resource allows you to walk through case studies that highlight the issues most commonly seen at specific stages of development. It provides in-depth coverage of common injuries, including:

• Ankle and foot injuries
• Knee and lower leg injuries
• Shoulder injuries
• Wrist and elbow injuries
• Hip and spine injuries
• Concussions and preventive strategies

New Features in the Second Edition

The second edition of this pediatric sports medicine guide has been fully reviewed and updated, offering new insights and information. New features include:

• A new chapter on Trends in Prevention of Sports Injury in the Young Athlete
• Five new sport-specific chapters covering:
• Soccer
• Baseball
• Collision sports (football, hockey, lacrosse, and rugby)
• Gymnastics
• Running

Each of these chapters provides an overview of the sport, its history, demographic information in young athletes, case-based scenarios that highlight the major issues in the sport, and suggestions on how pediatric health professionals can ensure the safest sport experience.

Product Details

This comprehensive guide is available in paperback format, with 276 pages. It is published by the American Academy of Pediatrics and is the second edition, released on October 15, 2017. The language of the book is English, and the ISBN-10 is 1610021223, with an ISBN-13 of 978-1610021227. The product dimensions are 8.4 x 0.5 x 10.9 inches.