Fractures in Sport

This textbook provides a practically applicable sport-centred guide to fracture management for athletes. It features extensive evidence-based guidance on how fracture management can be adapted in athletic patients, to facilitate an accelerated return to sport. Descriptions of a variety of both acute and stress fracture types are included, covering both the appendicular and axial skeleton, in locations such as the shoulder, knee, ankle and spine. Throughout the book, the focus is on enabling the reader to develop a deeper understanding of the ideal management principles that are availableformanaging fractures in high-functioning patients. Fractures in Sportcomprehensively covers the available strategies for managing fractures in professional and amateurathletes,and is idealfor use by practising and trainee orthopaedic surgeons, sports physicians, and general practitioners.