Sports Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation

World-class rehabilitation of the injured athlete integrates best practice in sports medicine and physical therapy with training and conditioning techniques based on cutting-edge sports science. In this ground-breaking new book, leading sports injury and rehabilitation professionals, strength and conditioning coaches, biomechanists and sport scientists show how this integrated model works across the spectrum of athlete care. In every chapter, there is a sharp focus on the return to performance, rather than just a return to play.

The book introduces evidence-based best practice in all the core areas of sports injury risk management and rehabilitation, including:

• performance frameworks for medical and injury screening;
• the science of pain and the psychology of injury and rehabilitation;
• developing core stability and flexibility;
• performance retraining of muscle, tendon and bone injuries;
• recovery from training and rehabilitation;
• end-stage rehabilitation, testing and training for a return to performance.

Every chapter offers a masterclass from a range of elite sport professionals, containing best practice protocols, procedures and specimen programmes designed for high performance. No other book examines rehabilitation in such detail from a high performance standpoint.

Sports Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation is essential reading for any course in sports medicine and rehabilitation, strength and conditioning, sports science, and for any clinician, coach or high performance professional working to prevent or rehabilitate sports injuries.

David Joyce is an athletic performance and rehabilitation specialist who has worked at the highest levels of world sport. He holds Masters degrees in both sports physiotherapy and strength and conditioning and has worked at two Olympic Games as a physiotherapist and performance coach (with Team Great Britain at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and with Team China at the 2012 Olympics in London). David is the co-editor and key contributor of High Performance Training for Sports and is currently the Head of Athletic Performance at the Greater Western Sydney Giants in the Australian Football League, and provides high performance and leadership consultancy services to elite organisations worldwide

Dan Lewindon is a Physiotherapist and rehabilitation specialist with over 12 years’ experience in elite level sport. He has completed MScs in both sports medicine and exercise science (strength and conditioning). Dan was appointed Physiotherapist for the England Senior Rugby Team in 2009. He is also the co-editor and key contributor to High Performance Training for Sports