Foundations for understanding rehabilitative techniques
This updated edition brings together foundational information that can easily be applied to everyday practice.
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Exercise may work as well as surgery for knee injuries
Recent research from the British Medical Journal has suggest that exercise could work just as well as surgery for knee injuries.
ACSM’s Exercise Management for Persons With Chronic Diseases and Disabilities 4th Edition
ACSM’s Exercise Management for Persons with Chronic Diseases and Disabilities presents a framework for optimising patients’ functionality by keeping them physically active.
New research states endurance training doesn’t cause cardiac arrest in athletes
Following a study in 2012 that saw Belgian scientists conclude that repeated intensive endurance exercise may result in damages to cardiovascular health, researchers from Saarland University have now tested this theory.
Exercise is Medicine: Expanding the Role of Exercise in Health Care
The American College of Sports Medicine is proud to publish the fourth edition of ACSM’s Exercise Management for Persons With Chronic Diseases and Disabilities. Informally known as CDD4, this edition is a substantial revision that forges the role of exercise in tomorrow’s health care systems.
Perfect the art of Positional Release Therapy
Clinical Guide to Positional Release Therapy is an invaluable resource written specifically for professionals in the sports medicine and therapy fields, wanting to learn and perfect the art of Positional Release Therapy (PRT). This highly visual guide takes an organised approach that gifts readers with the foundations for application, procedure, and theory of PRT. The text uses contemporary science and evidence-based practice to provide health care practitioners and students with a manual of PRT techniques and skills that enable successful diagnosis. Normal Price: £57.49|€87.34 HK Rewards Price: £45.99|€69.87 Find out more
Performing orthopedic evaluations and diagnosing conditions
Orthopedic Clinical Examination is an evidence-based guide on the process of conducting tests and making diagnoses.
New study into concussion in sport
A new study, Concussion in Sport, seeks to establish whether retired sportsmen and sportswomen have an increased incidence, or suffer an earlier onset, of neuro-degenerative disorders.