Overview
- Focuses on head and neck injuries in the young athlete, including diagnosis, current treatment guidelines and prevention
- Covers concussions, skull and facial fractures and injuries as well as visual dysfunction and the cervical spine
- Includes discussion of sideline response, transportation,rehabilitation and preventative gear
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Contemporary Pediatric and Adolescent Sports Medicine (PASM)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Providing the most current information on injuries to the head and neck sustained by young athletes, this practical text presents a thorough review of the complex and emerging issues for youths and adolescents involved in contact/collision sports. While concussions are among the most common injuries, fractures of the skull and facial bones and structural brain injuries can be serious and are discussed in chapters of their own, as are stingers and other cervical spine and cord issues and disease. Injuries to the eyes, ears and jaw are likewise examined. Prevention is a major theme throughout the book, as seen in chapters on protective head- and neckwear, transportation of injured players, and sideline response and return-to-play. Head and Neck Injuries in Young Athletes will be an excellent resource not only for orthopedists and sports medicine specialists treating growing athletes, but also specialists and team physicians who are on the scene at sporting events where theseinjuries may occur.
Reviews
“This book provides up-to-date information about head and neck injuries in young athletes ranging from relatively minor problems to life-threatening issues. … The book is written for team physicians, sports medicine physicians, and orthopedists. It also would be useful for primary care and emergency medicine practitioners who care for injured athletes. … It reads easily either using as an initial resource for learning about head and neck injury pathology, or as a reference during sideline or clinical care.” (Rachel R. Bengtzen, Doody's Book Reviews, March, 2016)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
William Meehan, MD, Director, Sports Concussion Clinic, Boston Children's Hospital, Division of Sports Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
Michael O'Brien, MD, Boston Children's Hospital, Division of Sports Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Head and Neck Injuries in Young Athletes
Editors: Michael O'Brien, William P. Meehan III
Series Title: Contemporary Pediatric and Adolescent Sports Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23549-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-23548-6Published: 08 December 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79497-6Published: 28 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-23549-3Published: 30 November 2015
Series ISSN: 2198-266X
Series E-ISSN: 2198-2678
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 232
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations, 50 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sports Medicine, Pediatrics, Orthopedics