This book offers a comprehensive and detailed overview of specific sports-related injuries and a valuable guide for decision-making to establish the best strategies to prevent and manage such injuries.

As a thorough understanding of each sports modality plays a key role, both in injury prevention and management, a dedicated chapter is devoted to each sports discipline. An international panel of authors examines all most popular individual and team sports - including athletics, swimming, combat sports, cycling, tennis, American football, baseball, basketball, soccer and volleyball, just to mention a few. Three additional chapters present special aspects related to sports injuries: mental health concerns in athletes, radiological assessment and patient reported-outcomes tailored to sports medicine.

All chapters share a consistent format, starting with a brief presentation of the sport and its history, and then discussing its dynamics, physical demands on the athlete, common sports-related injuries, biomechanics of injuries, first aid on the field, and injury prevention.

This book offers valuable resource to orthopaedists, sports physicians as well as  physiotherapists practicing in the field of sports-related injuries.

PART I. Team Sports

Chapter 1. American Football
Chapter 2. Baseball, Softball, Cricket
Chapter 3. Basketball
Chapter 4. Field hockey
Chapter 5. Gymnastics (artistic, rhythmic, trampoline)
Chapter 6. Handball
Chapter 7. Ice hockey
Chapter 8. Rugby
Chapter 9. Football (Soccer)
Chapter 10. Team Sports; Voleyball (indoor, beach)
Chapter 11. Team Sports; Waterepolo
PART II.  Individual Sports
Chapter 12. Athletics, Sprints, hurdles, high jump, long jump, triple jump, distance running
Chapter 13. Boxing
Chapter 14. Climbing
Chapter 15. Gym (CrossFit, spinning, aerobics)
Chapter 16. Cyclying (BMX, Mountain, Road, Track)
Chapter 17. Dancing
Chapter 18. Equestrian (dressage, eventing, jumping)
Chapter 19. Fencing
Chapter 20. Field Sports Throwing Injuries
Chapter 21. Judo, Karate, and Taekwondo
Chapter 22. Golf
Chapter 23. Luge, bobsleigh, skeletonLuge, bobsleigh, skeleton
Chapter 24. Marathon
Chapter 25. Shooting Sports (archery, rifle)
Chapter 26. Skating, Speed Skating, Figure Skating
Chapter 27. Skiing (Alpine, Nordic, Road, Track)
Chapter 28. Sumo
Chapter 29. Individual Sports; Swimming, open water swimming, and Diving
Chapter 30. Individual Sports; Tennis, Badminton, Racquetball, Squash
Chapter 31. Individual Sports; Triathalon
Chapter 32. Individual Sports; Weightlifting
Chapter 33. Individual Sports; Wrestling
Part III. Special Aspescts In Sports Ijuries
Chapter 34. Special Aspects in Sports Injuries:  Mental Health Concerns in Athletes
Chapter 35. Special Aspects in Sports Injuries; Radiological Assessment of Sports Injuries
Chapter 36. Patient Reported-Outcomes Tailored To Sports Medicine.