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Peter Brukner, MB BS, DRCOG, FACSM, FACSP, FASMF is a sports physician and Associate Professor in Sports Medicine at the Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine, University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the founding partner of the Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre, a past president of the Australasian College of Sports Physicians, and an Olympic Team Physician. Karim Khan, MD, PhD, FACSP, FACSM, Dip Sport Med (CASM) is Professor, Department of Family Practice, and Associate Member, Departments of Physical Therapy and Orthopaedics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Karim combines an active clinical sports medicine practice with a prolific research program related to tendinopathies, bone health, and exercise prescription for health.

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***"I've worked in a wide range of settings and been fortunate to teach health professionals and to learn from the best. Despite all that experience, I still find* Clinical Sports Medicine *extremely useful. It makes me, and my athletes, better. Very easy to quickly check in the clinic. Love every new edition-have not been disappointed."***
Mario Bizzini, PT, PhD, Former Executive Board Member, International Federation of Sports Physical Therapy (IFSPT)

Now in its sixth edition, the world-leading series Brukner & Khan's Clinical Sports Medicine is a practical guide to physiotherapy and musculoskeletal medicine. Written for students and those early in their careers, this first book in the collection, Foundations of Clinical Practice, guides you on how to be a great patient-focused clinician. It lays out the clinical sciences that underpin our field, and details the principles of assessment and multidisciplinary treatment.

Key features
87 practice pearls that turn years of clinical experience into expert advice
380 figures, 280 of which are new to this edition
74 feature boxes to highlight advanced clinical issues
69 QR codes with hours of additional content

What's new
Chapter outline, learning objectives and key points for every chapter
16 new chapters covering how to be a better clinician, how to interpret clinical sciences, and the principles that underpin quality clinical practice
All chapters reworked from scratch by 90 world-leading experts

OTHER BOOKS IN THIS THREE-PART SERIES
Clinical Sports Medicine 6e: Managing Injuries is the how-to manual on diagnosing and treating sport-related injuries
Clinical Sports Medicine 6e: The Medicine of Exercise is for clinicians who prescribe exercise to promote health and who treat exercise-related medical conditions (e.g. exercise-induced asthma)

Inhalt

Part A: The sport and exercise clinician
Chapter 1: The patient
Chapter 2: Providing quality clinical care
Chapter 3: Clinical reasoning
Chapter 4: Shared decision making
Chapter 5: The multidisciplinary team approach
Chapter 6: Working with sporting teams
Chapter 7: Career development

Part B: Clinical sciences
Chapter 8: Acute injuries
Chapter 9: Overuse injuries
Chapter 10: How does pain work? Using contemporary neuroscience to understand pain, performance and recovery
Chapter 11: Managing pain
Chapter 12: Introduction to clinical biomechanics
Chapter 13: Biomechanical aspects of injury in nine specific sports
Chapter 14: Training principles, programming and prescription
Chapter 15: Load management
Chapter 16: Recovery

Part C: The clinical approach
Chapter 17: Preventing injury
Chapter 18: Periodic health assessment of athletes
Chapter 19: Diagnosis: history and physical examination
Chapter 20: Diagnosis: imaging
Chapter 21: Diagnosis: phases of clinical assessment
Chapter 22: Red flags
Chapter 23: Using PROMs in clinical practice
Chapter 24: Treatment of sports injuries
Chapter 25: Athlete education
Chapter 26: Surgery in sports and exercise medicine
Chapter 27: Principles of sports injury rehabilitation
Chapter 28: Return to sport

Part D: Addressing challenges
Chapter 29: Improving equity, diversity and inclusion
Chapter 30: Unethical behaviours
Chapter 31: Interpersonal violence in sport
Chapter 32: Artificial intelligence