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

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  1. Print length
    256 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    North Atlantic Books
  4. Publication date
    September 4, 2018
  5. Dimensions
    7.44 x 0.59 x 9.65 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1623172837
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1623172831
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Unlock the key to preventing, treating, and overcoming sports injuries—learn the anatomy and science of diagnosis, recovery techniques, rehabilitation practices, and tools for enhancing peak performance

An illustrated resource for physical therapists, sports medicine pros, bodyworkers, and trainers

Whether you’re an athlete, coach, manual therapist, or healthcare professional, The Anatomy of Sports Injuries is the essential, in-depth reference guide for helping your clients—and yourself—stay active, healthy, and pain-free.

This comprehensive, fully illustrated guide takes you inside the body to understand exactly how and why injuries occur—and shows you science-backed, step-by-step techniqus to heal them effectively.

With more than 260 detailed, full-color images, you’ll see muscles, joints, and ligaments in motion alongside clear explanations of common injuries to every major body region.

Inside, you’ll learn:

  • Prevention strategies that cut injury risk in half, including warm-ups, stretches, cross-training, and strength programs
  • Step-by-step treatment methods, from immediate first aid to long-term injury rehabilitation
  • Expert insights on 120 specific sports injuries, from sprains, strains, and fractures to tendonitis, bursitis, shin splints, rotator cuff tears, and more
  • Progressive rehabilitation exercises to help restore flexibility, strength, balance, mobility, and confidence post-injury
  • How to apply tools for peak performance, like the FITT principle; overuse- and overtraining injury prevention practices; safe plyometric training for explosive power; and more

Whether you’re recovering from an injury, striving to prevent one, or working with others, this book helps you and your clients get back in the game stronger than ever. With practical solutions—backed by science and real-world athletic experience—The Anatomy of Sports Injuries is the go-to resource for building resilience, improving recovery, and peak performance.

About the Author

BRAD WALKER is a health science graduate of the University of New England and has postgraduate accreditations in athletics, swimming, and triathlon coaching. He has coached elite level and world champion athletes from sports as diverse as triathlon, motorcycle racing, rollerskating, squash, and baseball and has lectured extensively on sports injury prevention and rehabilitation. Walker is an authority on stretching and flexibility, having written more books and articles on on the subjects than any other author. His work has been featured on About.com, Athletes.com, BodyBuilding.com as well as Runners World, Bicycling, Triathlete, Swimming and Fitness, and Triathlon Sports. He is founder and CEO of the Stretching Institute and StretchCoach.com, Director of Education for StretchLab, and author of The Anatomy of Stretching and The Anatomy of Sports Injuries.
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Brad is a Health Science graduate of the University of New England and has postgraduate accreditation's in athletics, swimming and triathlon coaching. He's coached elite level and world champion athletes from sports as diverse as triathlon, motor cycle racing, roller skating, squash and baseball. And he's lectured extensively on sports injury prevention, treatment and management.

Brad has written more books and articles on stretching and flexibility than any other author; including the Stretching Handbook, the Anatomy of Stretching and the Anatomy of Sports Injuries. His stretching and sports injury articles have been published in numerous health and fitness magazines and extensively online at sites such as About.com, Athletes.com and BodyBuilding.com.

Magazines such as Runners World, Bicycling, Triathlete, Swimming and Fitness, and Triathlon Sports have featured his work. Amazon has listed his books on 5 Best-Seller lists; Google cites over 100,000 references to him on the internet; and satisfied customers from 122 countries have sent him 100's of personal testimonials.

Brad has been involved in the field of stretching, flexibility and sports injury management since the early 90's and over that time has built a reputation as the go-to-guy for all things stretching and sports injury.

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For Fitness Enthusiasts and Health-Care Professionals of All Levels

Sport Injury Diagnosis

What Constitutes a Sports Injury?

Sports injuries are most commonly associated with the musculoskeletal system, which includes the muscles, bones, joints and associated tissues such as ligaments and tendons.

This book includes a detailed overview of 120 sports injuries. Each sports injury is described by: the anatomy and physiology involved, possible causes, signs and symptoms, complications, immediate treatment, rehabilitation procedures and long-term prognosis.

Sports Injury Prevention

Design an Exercise Program

The two biggest mistakes people make when designing an exercise program are to train too hard and to not include enough variety. This will lead to an unbalanced muscular system, which is a surefire recipe for injury.

The FITT principle (or formula) is a great way of monitoring an exercise program. The acronym outlines the essential elements of an effective exercise program and the initials stand for:

F: Frequency I: Intensity T: Time T: Type

Sports Injury Rehabilitation

Treatment and Rehabilitation Exercises

Sports injury management encompasses the entire process of treating a sports injury, right from the time the injury occurs through to the time the injured player is fully recovered and stronger than before the injury occurred.

Sports injury management involves four phases:

  1. First aid: the first three minutes
  2. Treatment: the next three days
  3. Rehabilitation: the next three weeks
  4. Conditioning: the next three months

Product information

Publisher North Atlantic Books
Publication date September 4, 2018
Edition 2nd
Language ‎English
Print length 256 pages
ISBN-10 1623172837
ISBN-13 978-1623172831
Item Weight ‎1.34 pounds
Dimensions 7.44 x 0.59 x 9.65 inches
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The book is good with many illustrations. It is more geared to physical therapists. Not much new here though. Will use as a reference in the future.Read more
As someone who works in rehabbing of patients. This is a good book I will use with patients to show them where is injured on them or what muscles...Read more
This book is nice. As an athlete, it gives insight into how I can prevent injuries and is easy to read....Read more
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  • Chip
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    excellent review of sports injuries

    Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2025
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    excellent review of sports injuries for 17 and 1/2 bucks

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    Great reference book

    Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2024
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    As someone who works in rehabbing of patients. This is a good book I will use with patients to show them where is injured on them or what muscles were trying to strengthen. Good pictures and would highly recommend to anyone in a or going into a career where you may be working with rehabbing or treating patients.

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    Good to look up and not deal with scrolling on line through articles and videos

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    Very informative and to the point.

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    Informative and richly filled with information and relevent pictures

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    Its easy to read

    Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2019
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    This book is nice. As an athlete, it gives insight into how I can prevent injuries and is easy to read. As a personal trainer it's nice because I can show my clients the book or recommend they read it to help them understand more. It explains what each injury is in easy to understand terms, along with what you can do to help recover and how to prevent an injury

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    For our Grandson

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    Our grandson plays hockey and this was a good read for him.

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    Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2020
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    The book is good with many illustrations. It is more geared to physical therapists. Not much new here though. Will use as a reference in the future.

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    Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2022
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    I train in martial arts and help students with injuries, mine, too. I have a slew of sports injury books. This is one of the best. It covers rehabilitation exercises and stretches that really work. Put this in your library.

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    A lot of things described in this book are unfortunately very outdated. Needs a solid rewrite.

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    Good book

    Reviewed in the United Arab Emirates on December 11, 2019
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    Good book but have many similar information from the book The Anatomy of stretching

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    Good insight

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    Excellent resource tool and well laid out!

    Reviewed in Canada on March 26, 2019
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