Medicine & Health Sciences
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Study Guide for Brunner & Suddarth’s Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing
Help students make the most of what they’ve learned inBrunner & Suddarths Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing,15th Edition, with this easy-to-use study companion. Updated to reflect the latest textbook material, thisStudy Guideprovides everything students need to assess their understanding and practice applying their knowledge, preparing them for success in your class, on the NCLEX(R)exam, and in nursing practice.Read more
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Medical Disorders in Pregnancy: A Manual for Midwives, 2nd Edition
Praise for the 1st edition:
“This book is a must have for any midwife, particularly those working in the community, clinics and in high-risk areas…. This book is an extremely useful reference tool.” (MIDIRS Midwifery Digest)
“The important facts are laid out concisely, primarily focusing on management, using evidence based guidelines for best midwifery practice.” (RCGP Journal)
Medical Disorders in Pregnancy: A Guide for Midwives, 2nd edition clearly outlines existing and pre-existing conditions which women can experience during pregnancy. This comprehensive and practical handbook identifies issues for pre-conception care, defines the condition, explores possible complications, outlines recommended treatment and emphasizes specific midwifery care.
This fully revised and updated edition of Medical Disorders in Pregnancy: A Guide for Midwives builds on the success of the first edition by covering more subjects. It includes physiology, more illustrations and algorithms and its accessible reference-style text enables information to be quickly and easily found.
Special Features
- A practical guide on medical disorders written specifically for midwives
- Jointly written by medical and midwifery experts in the field
- Accessible reference style format makes information easy and quick to find
- Emphasis on inter-professional working
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A Textbook of Community Nursing
A Textbook of Community Nursing is a comprehensive and evidence-based introduction covering the full range of professional topics, including professional approaches to care, public health, eHealth, therapeutic relationships and the role of community nursing in mental health. The new edition has been updated throughout, including new guidelines and policies. It also provides a stronger focus on evidence-based practice.
This user-friendly and accessible textbook includes:
- Current theory, policy, and guidelines for practice. All chapters are underpinned by a strong evidence base;
- Learning objectives for each chapter, plus exercises and activities to test current understanding, promote reflective practice, and encourage further reading;
- Case studies and examples from practice which draw on all branches of community nursing to illustrate practical application of theory.
This is an essential text for all pre-registration nursing students, students on specialist community nursing courses, and qualified nurses entering community practice for the first time.
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Essentials of Nursing Research
The world’s most widely used nursing research textbook, Essentials of Nursing Research, Tenth Edition equips students with everything they need to confidently apply research to nursing practice. AJN award-winning authors Denise Polit and Cheryl Beck clarify the language of nursing research and instill a practical understanding of nursing research fundamentals and the research process for both quantitative and qualitative studies ― including design principles; sampling and data collection; criteria for assessing data quality; appraising the quality, rigor, and trustworthiness of studies; and approaches to understand the statistical results.
This updated edition incorporates the latest clinical insights and approaches to research to familiarize students with increasingly important considerations in today’s nursing practice, including the involvement of patients and stakeholders in translating research evidence to local settings; the appraisal of not only the rigor of research designs and methods but also the relevance and applicability of practice-based evidence; and the effective use of research in local quality improvement (QI) projects.- UPDATED! Research insights reflect the latest, most relevant considerations for today’s evolving nursing practice, including new coverage of quality improvement (QI) projects, clinical significance, comparative effectiveness research (CER), and systematic reviews.
- UPDATED! New organization simplifies the presentation of complex topics and better facilitates the use of research evidence in nursing practice.
- Clear, approachable writing makes difficult ideas easily digestible, even to students with no prior knowledge of technical terms.
- Critical Appraisal Guidelines walk students through studies and highlight aspects amenable to evaluation by research consumers.
- Research Examples and Critical Thinking Exercises emphasize important points and sharpen students’ critical thinking skills.
- Tips help students confidently translate abstract notions of research methods into concrete applications.
- Colorful tables, figures, and examples engage students’ attention and reinforce their understanding.
- Chapter Objectives emphasize essential information in each chapter.
- Key Terms familiarize students with common research terms.
- Bulleted Summary Points highlight key takeaways at a glance.
Ensure a mastery of essential nursing skills and equip students for success throughout the nursing education continuum with the complete Essentials of Nursing Research, Tenth Edition solution:- Lippincott® CoursePoint
- Study Guide for Essentials of Nursing Research, Tenth Edition
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The City & Guilds Textbook Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Adult Care: Second Edition
Develop best practice and improve your leadership skills with our second edition textbook (for the 3096-51 specification).
– Develop a comprehensive understanding of the knowledge and skills required with detailed coverage of all mandatory units
– Apply theoretical aspects of the Diploma in the workplace, and use our ‘Evidence Opportunity’ feature to test your understanding of the assessment criteria
– Build confidence reviewing and evaluating practice in Adult Care settings with ‘Reflect On It’ activities, and examples of reflective accounts
– Prepare a strong portfolio, with advice and activities on how to use evidence most effectivelyThis textbook has been fully updated to meet the requirements of the updated Skills for Care qualification criteria.
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Black’s Medical Dictionary
The 43rd edition, originally published in 2017, of the best-selling medical dictionary for over 100 years.Black’s Medical Dictionary is invaluable as a home reference and for all who need clear explanation of medical terms: nurses, health care professionals and students, health service management, actuaries, lawyers and journalists.
It contains over 5000 definitions and descriptions of medical terms and concepts with over 1000 diagrams, drawings and colour illustrations. It also provides helpful appendices on common medical tests and procedures, travel and health, measurements in medicine, health economics, complementary and alternative medicine, and an address list of support professional organisations.
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Nursing in Care Homes 2e
Nursing in Care Homes is a practical guide for nurses of all levels working in care homes. It is directly relevant to everyday practice and covers clinical issues such as continence care, wound care, infection control, and nutrition, as well as information on a wide range of issues including legal requirements, care home standards, and liasing with social and health care services. The revised and updated second edition includes new chapters on maximising abilities, risk management, stroke, and diabetes and calls upon the recommendations of the National Service Framework for Older People and the requirements of the Care Standards Act (2002).Concise and easy to follow, Nursing in Care Homes is an essential guide to skilled professional care for all nurses in care homes. It will also be invaluable to nursing students undertaking their placements in care homes.
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Alexander’s Nursing Practice: Hospital and Home
New edition of the UK’s most comprehensive textbook on adult nursing now fully revised for a new generation of students!
Led by the renowned editor, Ian Peate OBE FRCN, this well-established volume has been fully updated by a team of experienced nurse educationalists and practitioners to meet the needs of today’s undergraduate nursing student. Retaining the popular format – Common Disorders, Core Nursing Issues and Specific Patient Groups – this comprehensive volume is richly illustrated throughout and contains a wide range of helpful learning features to help the reader navigate the demands of the latest NMC educational requirements. Evidenced-based throughout, and with a range of helpful online tools and learning activities, additional features include ‘Real-life’ Case Studies to helpreaderscontextualise and apply new information, relevant pathophysiology to explain disease processes, enhanced discussion of pharmacology and medicines management to assist with ‘prescribing readiness’, and learning features which include Key Nursing Issues and Reflection and Learning – What Next?
Fully reflective of the 2018 NMC Standards of Proficiency for Nurses, this volume will be suitable for all undergraduate nursing students, the Trainee Nursing Associate, and anyone returning to practice.
- New edition of the UK’s most comprehensive textbook on Adult Nursing!
- Retains the popular ‘three-part’ structure to ensure comprehensive coverage of the subject area – Common Disorders, Core Nursing Issues and Specific Patient Groups
- Illustrative A&P and pathophysiology help explain key diseases and disorders
- ‘Real-life’ Case Studies helpcontextualise and apply new information
- Explains relevant tests and investigations and, when needed, the role of the nurse in the context of each of them
- Helpful learning features include Key Nursing Issues and Reflection and Learning – What Next?
- Encourages readers to critically examine issues that are related to care provision
- Useful icons throughout the text directs readers to additional online material
- Glossary contains over 300 entries to explain new terminology and concepts
- Appendices include notes on Système International (SI) units and reference ranges for common biochemical and haematological values
- Perfect for second and third-year undergraduate nursing students, senior Trainee Nursing Associates, those ‘returning to practice’ or needing to review practice and prepare for revalidation
- Edited by the world-renowned Ian Peate – editor of the British Journal of Nursing – who brings together a new line up of contributors from across the UK and Australia
- Reflects contemporary issues such as the complexity of acute admissions and the increasing importance of the multidisciplinary approach to patient care
- Reflects the 2018 NMC Standards of Proficiency for Nurses and the NMC 2018 Code
- Helps prepare students for ‘prescribing readiness’, with basic principles of pharmacology, evidence-based person-centred approaches to medicines management and an understanding of the regulatory, professional legal and ethical frameworks
- Recognises the introduction of the Nursing Associate role in England
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Acute Nursing Care: Recognising and Responding to Medical Emergencies
Delays in recognising deterioration or inappropriate management of people in acute care settings can result in late treatment, avoidable admissions to intensive care units and in some instances unnecessary deaths. As the role of the nurse in healthcare settings continues to change and evolve, todays student nurses need to be equipped with the fundamental skills to recognise and manage deterioration in the patient in a competent and confident manner, as you learn to become practitioners of the future.
Using a body systems approach and emphasising the central role and function of the nurse throughout, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the essential issues in this important subject. Topics covered include: recognition and identification of physiological deterioration in adults; identification of disordered physiology that may lead to a medical emergency linked to deterioration of normal function; relevant anatomy and physiology; pathophysiological changes and actions that need to be taken; immediate recognition and response; investigations, diagnosis and management issues; and teaching and preventative strategies.
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Essentials of Mental Health Nursing
This ground-breaking textbook gathers contributions from service users, expert practitioners and leading academics to help students develop the core knowledge and skills they need to qualify as mental health nurses. Focusing in particular on helping students apply person-centred, compassionate and recovery-focused care, service-user voices and practical case studies are integrated throughout the book. Students are also given a rounded understanding of the key debates they will face in practice through the exploration of both bio-medical and psycho-social approaches.
Key features include:
- Voices and case studies from real practising nurses and students help students apply knowledge to practice.
- Critical thinking activities, debates, and What s the Evidence summaries help students develop higher level critical thinking and evidence based practice skills. Further reading and free SAGE journal articles facilitate independent learning.
- Online MCQs and Flashcards make revision simple and fun.
- The free interactive ebook gives students the freedom to learn anywhere!
- Online Lecturer resources: free MCQs, video debates, SAGE journal articles and more, which can be used for flipped classroom activities or lectures to make teaching more interactive.
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Haematology Nursing
Haematology Nursing is a comprehensive handbook, with a nursing focus, on the care and management of patients with haematological disorders. Divided into four sections, the first provides an introduction to haematology, looking at haemopoiesis, immunology and genetics. Section Two covers non-malignant haematology, including anaemia, haemoglobinopathies and haemochromatosis. Section Three explores the pathophysiology, care and management of myeloproliferative and lymphoproliferative disorders, including leukaemia, myeloma, and lymphoma. The final section provides information on various nursing care interventions, including blood transfusion, venous access devices, and palliative care.
Aimed principally at nurses working in a variety of settings including haematology/oncology wards, medical/haematology wards, specialist bone marrow transplant centres, and community settings, Haematology Nursing is an essential and much-needed reference guide.
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The Recipe for Living Without Disease
The Recipe For Living Without Disease contains all of the basic dietary information that has helped thousands improve their health and reverse disease. Indeed it has proved to be a recipe to achieve living without disease.Read more
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NURSING: The Ultimate Study Guide
The key to success in nursing school is effective studying! Why not have a concise study guide that conveys all the essential, tested material for each course? Tired of buying study guides for each nursing course? This is the ultimate, all-in-one study guide to the core information nursing students need for success in all of their foundational courses. This is a small study guide that packs a big punch. This guide is also a great tool for new nurse graduates. Presented in a well-organized and easy-to-read style, it contains everything a nursing student needs to know from the first nursing course through the last.
The second edition is updated with critical new information about medications, lab values, assessments, emerging disorders, and nursing interventions. It includes three new chapters: “What to Expect in Nursing School,” “Decreasing Test Anxiety,” and “Emergency Nursing.” The guide closely follows the standard nursing curriculum and is designed as a reference for every core nursing course. To facilitate successful exam preparation, the text highlights important material most likely to appear on class exams. Also included are tips on what to expect on the NCLEX-RN®.
NEW TO THE SECOND EDITION:
- New and updated information on medications, lab values, emerging conditions, and nursing interventions
- A new chapter on emergency nursing
- A new chapter on anxiety-reducing test-taking strategies
- A new chapter on what to expect in nursing school
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The Psychology of Sport Injury and Rehabilitation
Athletes routinely use psychological skills and interventions for performance enhancement but, perhaps surprisingly, not always to assist in recovery from injury. This book demonstrates the ways in which athletes and practitioners can transfer psychological skills to an injury and rehabilitation setting, to enhance recovery and the well-being of the athlete.
Drawing on the very latest research in sport and exercise psychology, this book explores key psychological concepts relating to injury, explaining typical psychological responses to injury and psychological aspects of rehabilitation. Using case studies in every chapter to highlight the day-to-day reality of working with injured athletes, it introduces a series of practical interventions, skills and techniques, underpinned by an evidence-base, with a full explanation of how each might affect an athlete’s recovery from injury.
The Psychology of Sport Injury and Rehabilitation emphasises the importance of an holistic, multi-disciplinary approach to sports injury and rehabilitation. No other book examines the psychological aspects of both sports injury and the rehabilitation process, and therefore this is an essential resource for students, scholars and practitioners working in sport psychology, sports therapy, sports medicine or coaching.
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Neuropsychological Aspects of Brain Injury Litigation: A Medicolegal Handbook for Lawyers and Clinicians
This accessible handbook focuses on the importance of neuropsychological evidence and the role of the neuropsychologist as expert witness in brain injury litigation.
This thorough, evidence-based resource fosters discussion between the legal profession and expert neuropsychological witnesses. The chapters reflect collaborations between leading personal injury lawyers and neuropsychologists in the UK. Key issues in brain injury litigation are addressed that are essential to an understanding of the role of the neuropsychologist as expert witness and of neuropsychological evidence for the courts. These include neuropsychological testing, assessment of quantum, vocational rehabilitation, mental capacity, forensic outcomes, the frontal paradox, mild traumatic brain injury and more.
Combining the scientific and legal background with practical tips and case examples, this book is valuable reading for legal professionals, particularly those working in personal injury and clinical negligence, as well as trainees, students and clinicians in the field of neuropsychology, neurorehabilitation and clinical psychology.
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Essentials of Nursing Adults
Drawing together the best of text, video and interactive material for the definitive guide to adult nursing.
This one-stop-shop will enable students to understand the core aspects of care, learn the essential nursing skills and knowledge that underpin practice, deal with the complexities of the role and apply their learning to common conditions and patient groups. It has been developed in line with the 2018 NMC standards to provide a complete learning resource for adult nursing students.
Key features:
- Uses patient centered care and evidence-based practice as guiding principles throughout
- Clear and engaging features to help students understand the core theory and knowledge, apply it to nursing practice, revise for assessments and exams, and go further in their independent study.
- 12 months free access to an interactive eBook version, meaning you can access the book anytime.
The book is supported by online resources, including links to up to 100 instructional videos, case studies and accompanying questions, access to selected SAGE journal articles, weblinks, multiple-choice quizzes, and glossary flashcards.
Designed to make learning flexible and fun, leaving students better prepared for practice and ready to thrive in their future careers.
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The Commercial Determinants of Health
An accessible multidisciplinary overview for anyone seeking to understand the commercial determinants of healthOur health is largely shaped by the world around us―by the conditions in which we grow, work, and live. These conditions include the commercial determinants of health, the private sector activities which influence our physical and social environments, our available evidence and solutions, and even our discourse and understanding around key health and social issues.
Until recently, commercial determinants have remained largely absent from our conceptual understanding of the drivers of health. The scale of their potential impact necessitates a multidisciplinary and intersectional approach, but no book has yet explored the commercial impacts on health in their totality.
This pioneering volume sheds light on how commercial determinants shape health directly and indirectly through influencing policy, evidence, and discourse. Featuring original cross-sector research, The Commercial Determinants of Health draws on insights from a wide-ranging group of experts who introduce the commercial determinants of health and describe the proximal and distal pathways through which they affect population health. Each chapter further illustrates the health impact of commercial actors, including through multidisciplinary case studies ranging from tobacco to fossil fuels. Together, these essays seek to integrate new and emerging research across public health, economics, and policy to enrich our understanding and responses to the commercial determinants of health.
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Rebuilding Milo: The Lifter’s Guide to Fixing Common Injuries and Building a Strong Foundation for Enhancing Performance
Every athlete who spends time in the weight room eventually deals with pain/injury that leaves them frustrated and unable to reach their highest potential. Every athlete ought to have the ability to take the first steps at addressing these minor injuries. They shouldn’t have to wait weeks for a doctor’s appointment, only to be prescribed pain medications and told to ‘take two weeks off lifting’ or, even worse, to ‘stop lifting so heavy.’ Dr. Aaron Horschig knows your pain and frustration. Hes been there. For over a decade, Dr. Horschig has been a competitive weightlifter, and he understands how discouraging it is to tweak your back three weeks out from a huge weightlifting competition, to have knee pain limit your ability to squat heavy for weeks, and to suffer from chronic shoulder issues that keep you from reaching your goals. Rebuilding Milo is the culmination of Dr. Horschig’s life’s work as a sports physical therapist, certified strength and conditioning specialist, and Olympic weightlifting coach. It contains all of the knowledge he has amassed over the past decade while helping some of the best athletes in the world. Now he wants to share that knowledge with you. This book, designed by a strength athlete for anyone who spends time in the weight room, is the solution to your struggles with injury and pain. It walks you through simple tests and screens to uncover the movement problem at the root of your pain. After discovering the cause of your injury, you’ll be able to create an individualised rehab program as laid out in this book. Finally, you’ll be on the right path to eliminate your pain and return to the activities you love.Read more
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Clinical Companion for Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts for Clinical Judgment and Collaborative Care
Make this concise Clinical Companion your go-to reference in the med-surg clinical setting! Now in full color, this condensed version of Ignatavicius: Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts for Interprofessional Collaborative Care, 11th Edition is an easy-to-use, A-to-Z guide to managing more than 250 medical-surgical conditions. Key nursing care concepts are used to help you organize your care based on each patient’s individual needs. Interprofessional collaborative care is emphasized, and updated content and exemplars are cross-referenced to the main text. An ideal study tool for course exams and the NCLEX® Exam, this convenient handbook is sure to become your most trusted clinical reference.
- UNIQUE! Professional Nursing and Health Concepts for Medical-Surgical Nursing section reflects the emphasis on Concepts in the Ignatavicius textbook and helps you build clinical judgment skills.
- A-Z synopses of more than 250 diseases and disorders – along with related interprofessional collaborative care – serve as a quick reference for clinicals and a study resource for essential medical-surgical content.
- UNIQUE! Nursing Safety Priorities boxes promote safety with Drug Alerts, Action Alerts, and Critical Rescue information.
- UNIQUE! Focus on interprofessional collaboration provides guidance for coordinating care with other healthcare professionals.
- Printed thumb tabs along the edges of the printed pages facilitate quick access to clinical information and just-in-time learning and reference on the job.
- NEW! Updated content throughout reflects new national and international guidelines and protocols, and matches changes to the 11th edition of the Ignatavicius Medical-Surgical Nursing textbook for a seamless reference and study experience.
- NEW! Full-color illustrations and design make it easier to understand and apply content.
- NEW! Improved formatting promotes enhanced learning and reference value.
- UNIQUE! Patient-Centered Care boxes highlight nursing interventions specific to older adults, veterans, and gender health, as well as genetic/genomic, cultural, and NEW healthy equity considerations.
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Essential Medical Statistics (Essentials): 11
Blackwell Publishing is delighted to announce that this book has been Highly Commended in the 2004 BMA Medical Book Competition. Here is the judges’ summary of this book:“This is a technical book on a technical subject but presented in a delightful way. There are many books on statistics for doctors but there are few that are excellent and this is certainly one of them. Statistics is not an easy subject to teach or write about. The authors have succeeded in producing a book that is as good as it can get. For the keen student who does not want a book for mathematicians, this is an excellent first book on medical statistics.”
Essential Medical Statistics is a classic amongst medical statisticians. An introductory textbook, it presents statistics with a clarity and logic that demystifies the subject, while providing a comprehensive coverage of advanced as well as basic methods.
The second edition of Essential Medical Statistics has been comprehensively revised and updated to include modern statistical methods and modern approaches to statistical analysis, while retaining the approachable and non-mathematical style of the first edition. The book now includes full coverage of the most commonly used regression models, multiple linear regression, logistic regression, Poisson regression and Cox regression, as well as a chapter on general issues in regression modelling. In addition, new chapters introduce more advanced topics such as meta-analysis, likelihood, bootstrapping and robust standard errors, and analysis of clustered data.
Aimed at students of medical statistics, medical researchers, public health practitioners and practising clinicians using statistics in their daily work, the book is designed as both a teaching and a reference text. The format of the book is clear with highlighted formulae and worked examples, so that all concepts are presented in a simple, practical and easy-to-understand way. The second edition enhances the emphasis on choice of appropriate methods with new chapters on strategies for analysis and measures of association and impact.
Essential Medical Statistics is supported by a web site at www.blackwellpublishing.com/essentialmedstats. This useful online resource provides statistical datasets to download, as well as sample chapters and future updates.
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Management of Spinal Cord Injuries: A Guide for Physiotherapists, 1e
Combining 25 years of clinical, research and teaching experience, Dr Lisa Harvey provides an innovative 5-step approach to the physiotherapy management of people with spinal cord injury. Based on the International Classification of Functioning, this approach emphasises the importance of setting goals which are purposeful and meaningful to the patient. These goals are related to performance of motor tasks analysed in terms of 6 key impairments. The assessment and treatment performance of each of these impairments for people with spinal cord injury is described in the following chapters:- training motor tasks
- strength training
- contracture management
- pain management
- respiratory management
- cardiovascular fitness training
Dr Harvey develops readers’ problem-solving skills equipping them to manage all types of spinal cord injuries. Central to these skills is an understanding of how people with different patterns of paralysis perform motor tasks and the importance of differentmuscles for motor tasks such as:
- transfers and bed mobility of people
- wheelchair mobility
- hand function for people with tetraplegia
- standing and walking with lower limb paralysis
This book is for students and junior physiotherapists with little or no experience in the area of spinal cord injury but with a general understanding of the principles of physiotherapy. It is also a useful tool for experienced clinicians, including those keen to explore the evidence base that supports different physiotherapy interventions.
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Langman’s Medical Embryology
Concise, clearly written, and vibrantly illustrated, Langman’s Medical Embryology, 15th Edition, makes complex embryology concepts approachable to help you build the clinical understanding essential to your success in medical practice, nursing, or other health professions. Hundreds of full-color illustrations clarify the stages of embryonic development with rich detail, and engaging learning features, clinical examples, and online review questions ready you for the challenges ahead on your exams and in clinical practice.- NEW! Medical Embryology Animations, now included with the purchase of the print book, allow users to visualize the stages of human development and master the corresponding anatomical relationships.
- UPDATED! Clinical Correlates boxes reinforce clinically relevant content through realistic case-based scenarios you’re likely to encounter in practice.
- UPDATED! More than 400 full-color illustrations, micrographs, and clinical images clarify key aspects of embryonic development in vivid detail.
- UPDATED! Clinical vignette and USMLE-style multiple-choice questions, available via digital access, with answers provide valuable self-assessment and strengthen your test-taking confidence.
- Problems to Solve boost your critical thinking capabilities.
- End-of-Chapter Summaries detail key stages of development, terms, and clinical conditions for each chapter at a glance.
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Theory and Research in Promoting Public Health: 01 (Published in association with The Open University)
What, exactly, is promoting public health activity? How should we promote public health? Whose values are most important? Which theories can help inform health promoting practice?Theory and Research in Promoting Public Health is an important text that addresses these questions, exploring the key concepts, debates and issues involved in multi-disciplinary public health. The book considers the complex and diverse nature of public health and helps readers critically appraise the theories, research and policies that inform multidisciplinary public health practice.
This timely and comprehensive book:
” considers the wide range of settings, people and methods that are involved in public health activities
” introduces key theoretical perspectives
” shows how research and knowledge directly inform public health interventions
” provides an analysis of how research can be used in the planning and evaluation of public health initiatives.
” encourages critical awareness and reflection.
Theory and Research in Promoting Public Health will be a core text for those studying public health and health promotion across a wide range of health and social care disciplines. It will also be an invaluable resource for professionals and training organisations involved in promoting public health.
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Petty’s Principles of Musculoskeletal Treatment and Management: A Handbook for Therapists (Physiotherapy Essentials)
Petty’s Principles of Musculoskeletal Treatment and Management provides an up-to-date, evidence-based and person-centred guide to musculoskeletal practice.
Edited by leading experts Kieran Barnard and Dionne Ryder, with contributions by highly regarded physiotherapists from across the UK, it provides a comprehensive overview of the principles underpinning physiotherapy for musculoskeletal conditions. It covers basic principles for treating muscles, nerves and joints, as well as anatomy and physiology, clinical reasoning and rehabilitation skills.
This book is a companion to Petty’s Musculoskeletal Examination and Assessment, and together both volumes cover everything students need to know to examine, assess and treat patients.
- Packed with reflective exercises, illustrations and case studies to bring learning to life
- Written with students in mind – easy to follow and understand
- Drawings and photographs to visually enhance descriptions in the text
- New chapters on serious pathology, vascular presentations and advancing clinical practice
- Expanded content on patient management
- Chapter summary podcasts
- New learning outcomes and reflective exercises throughout
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Becoming a Supple Leopard: The Ultimate Guide to Resolving Pain, Preventing Injury, and Optimizing Athletic Performance
Updated and expanded with more than 80 pages of new content!
Improve your athletic performance, extend your athletic career, treat stiffness and achy joints, and prevent and rehabilitate injuries – all without having to seek out a coach, doctor, chiropractor, physical therapist or masseur. In Becoming a Supple Leopard, Dr. Kelly Starrett – founder of MobilityWOD.com – shares his revolutionary approach to mobility and maintenance of the human body and teaches you how to hack your own movement, allowing you to live a healthier, more fulfilling life. This new edition of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller has been thoroughly revised to make it even easier to put to use.
Want to truly understand the principles that guide human movement? Becoming a Supple Leopard lays out a blueprint for moving safely and effectively through life and sport. Want to learn how to apply those principles to specific movements, whether you are doing squats in the gym or picking up a bag of groceries? Hundreds of step-by-step photos show you not only how to perform a host of exercise movements, such the squat, deadlift, pushup, kettlebell swing, clean, snatch, and muscle-up, but also how to correct the common faults associated with those movements. Frustrated because you can’t perform a certain movement correctly due to range of motion restrictions? Breaking the body down into 14 distinct areas, Starrett demonstrates hundreds of mobilization techniques that will help you resolve restrictions and reclaim your mobility. Unsure how to put it all together into a program that addresses your individual needs? This updated edition lays out dozens of prescriptions that allow you to hone in on a specific limitation, a nagging injury, or an exercise fault that you just can’t seem to get right. It even offers a 14-day full-body mobility overhaul.
Performance is what drives us as human beings, but dysfunctional movement patterns can bring the human body to an abrupt halt. Often, the factors that impede performance are invisible even to seasoned athletes and coaches. Becoming a Supple Leopard makes the invisible visible. Whether you are a professional athlete, a weekend warrior, or simply someone wanting to live healthy and free from physical restrictions, this one-of-a-kind training manual will teach you how to harness your athletic potential and maintain your body.
Learn how to perform basic maintenance on your body, unlock your athletic potential, live pain-free… and become a Supple Leopard. This step-by-step guide to movement and mobility will show you how to:
- Move safely and efficiently in all situations
- Organize your spine and joints in optimal, stable positions
- Restore normal function to your joints and tissues
- Accelerate recovery after training sessions and competition
- Properly perform strength and conditioning movements like the squat, bench press, pushup, deadlift, clean, and snatch
- Build efficient, transferable movement patterns and skill progressions from simple to more advanced exercises
- Identify, diagnose, and correct inefficient movement patterns
- Treat and resolve common symptoms like low back pain, carpal tunnel, shoulder pain, and tennis elbow
- Prevent and rehabilitate common athletic injuries
- Use mobilization techniques to address short and stiff muscles, soft tissue and joint capsule restriction, motor control problems, and joint range of motion limitations
- Create personalized mobility prescriptions to improve movement efficiency
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Occupational Therapy for People Experiencing Illness, Injury or Impairment: Promoting occupation and participation, 7e (Occupational Therapy Essentials)
Formerly entitled Occupational Therapy and Physical Dysfunction this seminal textbook builds on the strengths of all previous editions and continues to explore the work of occupational therapists with people who are experiencing illness, injury or impairment. It links theory with day-to-day practice, stimulating reflection on the knowledge, expertise and attitudes that inform practice, and encouraging the development of occupation-focused practice.
The new title, Occupational Therapy for People Experiencing Illness, Injury or Impairment, reflects the knowledge, attitudes and skills that underpin the practice of promoting occupation and participation. It showcases how occupational therapists work with people – not medical conditions and diagnoses – as individuals, groups, communities, and populations.
The new edition now has additional chapters on the assessment and intervention stages of the professional reasoning process to assist development of enabling skills and strategies. It also includes many more practice stories throughout to provide authentic examples to illustrate the application of theory to practice. Learning is further reinforced via access to a new online resource – Evolve Resources – which includes MCQs, reflective questions and three bonus interactive practice stories with accompanying reflective videos. These are all signposted within the textbook.
Now compromising seven sections, which follow the professional reasoning format of the Canadian Practice Process Framework (CPPF), the new edition first tracks the evolution of occupational therapy in the context of health care. It then examines the foundational biomedical and social sciences, in addition to occupational science, before going on to the areas of assessment; writing occupation-focused goals; enabling skills and strategies which include advocacy and lobbying, public health, and community-based rehabilitation. The book ends with a chapter on developing effective reflection skills to enable occupational therapists to critically evaluate their practice, evolve as practitioners, and maintain and develop their professional competencies.
- Links theory with day-to-day practice, stimulating reflection
- Includes occupational, biomedical and social sciences that underpin occupational therapy practice
- Focus on working with groups, communities and populations in addition to working with individuals reflecting the evolving and expanding scope of practice
- Use of person-centred or inclusive and strengths-based language
- Three bonus interactive practice stories online at Evolve Resources and signposted at the end of Sections 3-7 in the textbook
- New title echoes the contemporary strength-based and occupation-focused nature of occupational therapy practice which involves working with people and not medical conditions and diagnoses
- Content and structure reviewed and shaped by an international panel of students/new graduates
- 22 additional chapters
- 100 expert international contributors
- Evolve Resources – evolve.elsevier.com/Curtin/OT – contains:
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- 3 bonus interactive practice stories with reflective videos
- 360 MCQs
- 200 reflective questions
- 250 downloadable images
- Critical discussion of the ICF in the context of promoting occupation and participation
- Pedagogical features: summaries, key points, and multiple choice and short answer reflective questions
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Sports Rehabilitation and Injury Prevention
This text provides a comprehensive, practical, evidence-based guide to the field. It covers each stage of the rehabilitation process from initial assessment, diagnosis and treatment, to return to pre-injury fitness and injury prevention. Presenting a holistic approach, this text also addresses the nutritional and psychological aspects of the rehabilitation process for the amateur sports enthusiast as well as elite athletes.Divided into five parts, Parts I, II and III cover screening and assessment, the pathophysiology of sports injuries and healing and the various stages of training during the rehabilitation process. Part IV covers effective clinical decision making, and Part V covers joint specific injuries and pathologies in the shoulder, elbow wrist and hand, groin and knee.
Key features:
- Comprehensive. Covers the complete process from diagnosis and treatment to rehabilitation and prevention of injuries.
- Practical and relevant. Explores numerous real world case studies and sample rehabilitation programmes to show how to apply the theory in practice.
- Cutting Edge. Presents the latest research findings in each area to provide an authoritative guide to the field.
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Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Including Concussion (Elements in Emergency Neurosurgery)
Most traumatic brain injury (TBI) cases are considered mild. Precise definitions vary, but typically, loss of consciousness and post-traumatic amnesia duration is brief (e.g.Read more
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Sports and Soft Tissue Injuries: A Guide for Students and Therapists
The fifth edition of the retitled Sports and Soft Tissue Injuries sharpens its focus on the treatment of sports injuries, providing the most complete evidence-based guide for physiotherapists, sports therapists and medical practitioners working with athletes.
Opening with chapters that examine the underlying science of tissue healing and principles of rehabilitation, the book employs a systematic approach, with chapters covering each area of the body, from facial through to ankle and foot injuries. Every chapter includes in-depth discussion and guidance on the treatment of common sports injuries through physiotherapeutic modalities, drawing on the author’s wealth of personal experience and the latest peer-reviewed research.
A complete pedagogical resource, Sports and Soft Tissue Injuries is highly illustrated in full colour, and is an important text for students of sports therapy, physiotherapy, sport medicine and athletic training, interesting further reading for sport and exercise science or kinesiology students with an interest in sports injury, and a crucial reference for practicing physiotherapists and athletic trainers and the related disciplines.
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Nursing Care Plans: Diagnoses, Interventions, and Outcomes
Get everything you need to create and customize effective nursing care plans, now with evidence-based ICNP® diagnoses! Covering the most common medical-surgical nursing diagnoses and clinical problems, Gulanick & Myers’ Nursing Care Plans: Diagnoses, Interventions, and Outcomes, 10th Edition features more than 200 care plans, each reflecting the latest evidence-based guidelines and national and international treatment protocols. It also features highlighted QSEN competencies and a clear differentiation of nursing and collaborative interventions. New to this edition are ICNP® diagnoses, care plans on LGBTQ health issues and on electrolytes and acid-base balance, and a new Online Care Planner that makes it easier than ever to customize care plans. Written by noted educators Meg Gulanick and Judith L. Myers, this #1 care planning book will help you learn to think like a nurse!
- 61 patient problem care plans include the most common/important patient problems, providing the building blocks for you to create your own individualized care plans.
- 164 disorder care plans cover virtually every common medical-surgical condition, organized by body system.
- Patient problem care plan format includes a definition/explanation of the diagnosis, related factors, defining characteristics, expected outcomes, ongoing assessment, and therapeutic interventions.
- Disorder care plan format covers synonyms for the disorder (for ease in cross referencing), a definition, common related factors, defining characteristics, expected outcomes, ongoing assessment, and therapeutic interventions for each relevant nursing diagnosis.
- Prioritized care planning guidance internally organizes care plans from “actual” to “risk” diagnoses, from general to specific interventions, and from independent to collaborative/interprofessional interventions, to help you select the most important, priority interventions for your particular patients.
- NEW! Updated care plans are now based on the evidence-based, complete, and internationally accepted International Classification of Nursing Practice (ICNP®) nursing diagnoses.
- NEW! 19 all-new care plans are featured in this edition.
- NEW! Updated content throughout reflects the most current evidence-based practice and national and international guidelines.
- NEW! Online Care Planner on the Evolve website allows you to easily generate customized care plans based on the book’s content.
- NEW! Improved focus on core content includes several care plans that have been moved from the book’s Evolve website.
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Nursing Research
Make nursing research approachable with the authoritative resource for nursing graduate students. This best-selling text features the latest methodologic innovations in nursing, medicine, and the social sciences delivered in a user-friendly writing style to help students master research methods, confidently critique research reports, and apply evidence-based findings in clinical practice. The extensively revised 11th Edition retains the helpful features, pedagogy, and clean design that have made the book a classic and introduces two new chapters reflecting the growing importance of applicability, generalizability, relevance, and quality improvement and improvement science. NEW! Quality Improvement and Improvement Science chapter provides methods and frameworks to help students develop and assess improvement projects. NEW! Applicability, Generalizability, and Relevance: Toward Practice-Based Evidence chapter details cutting-edge strategies to meet the growing need for patient-centered, practice-based evidence. UPDATED! Revised content throughout reflects the latest methodologic approaches to ranking evidence, verifying systematic reviews, using meta-aggregation, and more. Critical appraisal guidelines help students focus on specific aspects of a report for the most effective appraisal. Clear, user-friendly writing style introduces concepts logically and clarifies difficult ideas. Specific research tips translate abstract notions into practical strategies to help students confidently apply chapter lessons in real-life situations. Research examples throughout the text illustrate key points and stimulate critical thinking. A comprehensive index provides fast, efficient access to precise information. Tables, figures, and bulleted summaries reinforce essential chapter concepts at a glance.Read more
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Evolution in Health and Disease
In this fully revised and updated edition, the editors have integrated a completely new set of contributions from the leading researchers in the field to describe the latest research in evolutionary medicine, providing a fresh summary of this rapidly expanding field 10 years after its predecessor was first compiled. It continues to adopt a broad approach to the subject, drawing on medically relevant research from evolutionary genetics, human behavioral ecology, evolutionary microbiology (especially experimental evolution of virulence and resistance), the evolution of aging and degenerative disease, and other aspects of biology or medicine where evolutionary approaches make important contributions. Evolution in Health and Disease describes how evolutionary thinking gives valuable insights and fresh perspectives into human health and disease, establishing evolutionary biology as an essential complementary science for medicine. Integrating evolutionary thought into medical research and practice helps to explain the origins of many medical conditions, including diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, asthma, allergies, other autoimmune diseases, and aging. It also provides life-saving insights into the evolutionary responses of pathogens to antibiotics, vaccinations, and other human interventions. Why do we grow old? How can we stay healthy as we age? The book discusses these and many other fascinating questions, as well as suggesting exciting possibilities for future treatment and research. This research level text is suitable for graduate level students and researchers in the fields of evolutionary (Darwinian) medicine, evolutionary biology, anthropology, developmental biology and genetics. It will also be of relevance and use to medical researchers and doctors.Read more
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Practical Computing for Biologists
Practical Computing for Biologists shows you how to use many freely available computing tools to work more powerfully and effectively. The book was born out of the authors’ own experience in developing tools for their research and helping other biologists with their computational problems. Many of the techniques are relevant to molecular bioinformatics but the scope of the book is much broader, covering topics and techniques that are applicable to a range of scientific endeavours.
Twenty-two chapters organized into six parts address the following topics (and more; see Contents):Searching with regular expressions
The Unix command line
Python programming and debugging
Creating and editing graphics
Databases
Performing analyses on remote servers
Working with electronicsWhile the main narrative focuses on Mac OS X, most of the concepts and examples apply to any operating system. Where there are differences for Windows and Linux users, parallel instructions are provided in the margin and in an appendix. The book is designed to be used as a self-guided resource for researchers, a companion book in a course, or as a primary textbook. Practical Computing for Biologists will free you from the most frustrating and time-consuming aspects of data processing so you can focus on the pleasures of scientific inquiry.
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Healing Brain Injury with Chinese Medical Approaches: Integrative Approaches for Practitioners
Learn to treat symptoms of traumatic and acquired brain injury using Chinese medicinal methods of acupuncture and herbal medicine. Covering both Western and Chinese medicine understandings of the brain, the book provides a thorough exploration of treatment options, including multiple acupuncture systems, Chinese herbal formulas, dietary and orthomolecular recommendations, and standard biomedical approaches.
Many symptoms associated with brain injury can be effectively addressed or reduced using TCM, including chronic headache, fatigue, dizziness, pain, and anxiety among others. The book highlights the special considerations that should be taken when working with people with brain injury, as well as when treating particular subpopulations, including pediatrics and veterans.
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Nursing Research: Methods and Critical Appraisal for Evidence-Based Practice, 9e
Become better at understanding and applying nursing research to your everyday work with Nursing Research: Methods and Critical Appraisal for Evidence-Based Practice, 9th Edition. Written by an all-star team of educators and research experts, this four-time recipient of the American Journal of Nursing’s Book of the Year is the perfect text to help ground you in the processes behind nursing research and evidence-based practice. This new ninth edition has been thoroughly updated and refocused to better match the needs of the nurse who will read and apply research versus the professional researcher herself. This new edition also features: new research examples and vignettes; easy-to-use navigation tools; enhanced readability; expanded information on how to integrate interprofessional education and evidence-based practice; and well-balanced coverage of both qualitative and quantitative research methods. It’s a must-have resource for any nurse wanting to take advantage of the nursing research and evidence-based practice currently out there.
- Balanced but distinct coverage of both the qualitative and quantitative approaches to nursing research acquaints you with the processes behind research and evidence-based practice.
- Complete, high-quality research examples, including three sample critiques, demonstrate how to apply the principles outlined in the text to published quantitative and qualitative research studies.
- Research Vignettesintroduce you to real-world practitioners of nursing research and help bridge the gaps among clinical research, academia, and clinical practice.
- All-star group of contributors represents a widely respected team of experts in nursing research and evidence-based practice.
- Effective learning aids in every chapter include Key Terms, Learning Outcomes, Helpful Hints, Evidence-Based Practice Tips, Appraising the Evidence, Critiquing Criteria, Critique of a Research Study, Critical Thinking Decision Paths, Critical Thinking Challenges, and Key Points.
- NEW! Revised, refocused, and streamlined content throughout to better address the needs of consumers of research for evidence-based clinical practice.
- NEW! All-new research examples and Research Vignettes have been added throughout to demonstrate the most current high-quality published studies, and to exemplify the work on prominent nurse-researchers.
- NEW! Content on mixed-methods research along with secondary analysishas been added to the chapter on nonexperimental designs.
- NEW! Expanded coverage of systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines addresses these important aspects of research.
- UNIQUE! Integration of interprofessional education concepts and activities addresses the growing interest in interprofessional education and interprofessional collaborative practice.
- NEW! Enhanced readability and navigation tools make it easier for you to locate, understand, and retain information in the text.
- NEW! Revamped coverage of theory content and strategies for developing an evidence-based practice feature consolidated chapters that are more visual and less text-heavy.
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Brunner & Suddarth’s Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing
Keeping tomorrow’s nurses at the forefront of today’s changing healthcare environment, Brunner & Suddarth’s Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, 15th Edition delivers the most comprehensive resource available for nursing students in the medical-surgical course. This bestselling text is designed for the way students like to learn, combining a highly readable approach with engaging case studies and learning tools to help students explore essential patient care practices in real-world terms and gain a more practical understanding of how they’ll apply what they’ve learned in practice.Trusted by instructors, students, and practicing nurses for nearly 60 years, this landmark resource has been comprehensively updated for the 15thEdition to reflect the latest research, evidence-based practices, settings, issues, ethical challenges, and concerns of today’s healthcare practice. Complete integration with Lippincott® CoursePoint+ allows you to easily map out your entire course, provide personalized student remediation, and simulate real-world nursing scenarios involving patients mentioned in vignettes in the text, giving your students unparalleled preparation for success in the medical-surgical nursing workforce.Read more
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Neurodegenerative Diseases: Multifactorial Degenerative Processes, Biomarkers and Therapeutic Approaches (First Edition)
This reference is the definitive guide to common neurodegenerative diseases that affect humans. The book covers mechanisms of some of the most well-known neurodegenerative diseases, their biomarkers, neuropharmacology, and emerging treatment strategies.The book introduces the subject of neurodegeneration by outlining the biochemistry, pathophysiology and multifactorial neurological mechanisms (the role of genetics, environmental factors and mitochondrial damage, for example). Next, it explains some of the most studied diseases, namely, Parkinson’s Disease, Alzheimer’s Disease, Huntington’s Disease, and Multiple Sclerosis. Subsequent chapters delve into current knowledge about diagnostic and immunological biomarkers, followed by a summary of novel therapeutic strategies.
Special attention has been given to the role of medicinal plants in attempting to treat neurodegenerative diseases, as well as the public health burden posed by these conditions.
Key Features
– give readers an overview of multifactorial disease mechanisms in neurodegeneration
– covers some major neurodegenerative diseases in detail
– covers diagnostic and immunological biomarkers
– explores current therapeutic strategies and drug targets in common neurodegenerative diseases
– offers a simple presentation with references for advanced readers
The book is a suitable reference for all readers, including students, research scholars, and physicians who are interested in the mechanisms and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.
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Examination of Musculoskeletal Injuries
Examination of Musculoskeletal Injuries, Fourth Edition, guides current and future athletic trainers and rehabilitation professionals through the examination and evaluation of musculoskeletal injuries both on and off the field. The text presents injury examination strategies in on-site, acute, and clinical settings and provides the information on mastering the skills needed for the Board of Certification examination for athletic trainers as determined by the sixth edition of Athletic Training Role Delineation Study/ Practice Analysis for entry-level athletic trainers.This updated fourth edition includes the following enhancements:
- A new online video library contains 51 short video clips that correspond to and demonstrate evaluation techniques for various musculoskeletal disorders found throughout the text.
- Full-color photos and medical artwork have been added throughout the text to clarify testing techniques and enhance knowledge of relevant body structures.
- Substantial updates provide the most recent evidence-based clinical information.
- An expanded selection of special tests and injury-specific examinations are now presented in a more accessible format and include a photo or video, description of the purpose, patient and clinician positions for the test, procedures performed, and possible outcomes.
To assist students, a web resource houses the robust video library and printable checklists forms, and tables that students can use in laboratory work and review sessions. Instructor ancillaries are also available online.
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BMA Guide to Sports Injuries: The Essential Step-by-Step Guide to Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment (DK Medical Care Guides)
This one-stop manual for treating and preventing sports injuries covers everything you need to know, including first aid and physiotherapy.
Produced in collaboration with the British Medical Association, this fully illustrated sports injury manual ensures reliable, up-to-date information. Discover what’s causing your knee pain or shoulder pain using the directory of common sports injuries, which outlines causes, symptoms, and diagnoses. Speed your recovery from injuries such as a sprained ankle, bone fracture, or pulled groin using more than 160 step-by-step exercise routines designed to provide immediate treatment as well as long-term strategies for injury prevention. Easy to use, packed with practical advice, and covering all sports from snowboarding to tennis, this is the indispensable injury manual for all amateur sports people, coaches, and trainers.Read more
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Prevention and Rehabilitation of Hamstring Injuries
This innovative book presents the latest insights into hamstring strain injuries (HSI), one of the most common problems in elite and recreational sport, with a unique focus on prevention and rehabilitation. The research within this area has evolved rapidly over the past 10 years and this text offers a comprehensive overview of the recent and most relevant advances. It fills a gap in the literature, since other books focus on muscle injuries in general and their surgical treatment.Structured around the current evidence in the field, it includes sections on functional anatomy and biomechanics; basic muscle physiology in relation to injury and repair; assessment of risk factors; and factors associated with hamstring strains. It also discusses considerations in relation to acute and chronic injuries and hamstring injury prevention, including pre-season and in-season interventions, as well as management strategies and rehabilitation protocols. The final chapter is devoted to additional interventions when conservative rehabilitation and injury prevention fail. Written by renowned experts in the field, this book will be of great interest to sports physiotherapists, sports physicians, physical trainers and coaches.Read more
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