Overview
- Combines the highest available evidence and expert recommendation to provide insight into treatment controversies in the athlete’s spine
- Includes detailed chapters in sections covering team management of spinal injuries and operative management of injuries to the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine
- An excellent resource for sports medicine specialists, orthopedic and neurosurgeons, and any clinician treating the active patient
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Team Physician Management of Spine and Brain Injuries
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Injuries to the Cervical Spine
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Injuries to the Thoracic and Lumbar Spine
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About this book
This concise, user-friendly guide brings together the strongest available evidence with expert recommendations to provide insight into the management of injuries to the athlete’s spine, including controversies unique to this area. Divided into three thematic sections, this information will prove invaluable, as many of the real-world questions surrounding care do not have distinct and obvious answers. Considerations for team physician management comprises part I, including on-field assessment of spine injuries and concussion, rehabilitation and return to play, and complications and post-concussion sequelae. The second and third sections discuss injuries to the cervical spine and the thoracolumbar spine, respectively, describing injury evaluation, management, and outcomes in the elite athlete.
Spine conditions have been studied extensively in the general population; however, applying this data to the elite athlete is controversial. Numerous external variables make performanceof well-designed clinical trials challenging in this population, and consequently evidence-based recommendations are lacking for the athlete’s spine. Practical and engaging, Spinal Conditions in the Athlete will be an excellent resource for sports medicine specialists, orthopedic and neurosurgeons, and any clinician treating the active patient.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Wellington K. Hsu, MD
Department of Orthopedic Surgery
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL, USA
Tyler J. Jenkins, MD
Columbia Orthopedic Group
Columbia, MO, USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Spinal Conditions in the Athlete
Book Subtitle: A Clinical Guide to Evaluation, Management and Controversies
Editors: Wellington K. Hsu, Tyler J. Jenkins
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26207-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26206-8Published: 01 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26209-9Published: 01 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-26207-5Published: 10 October 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 286
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sports Medicine, Orthopedics, Neurosurgery