Roberto Rossi – författare

Inside the Belly of the Primordial Walking Whale lies poems about life, love, trust, courage, and friendship. Roberto Rossi superbly expresses deeply-felt and well-observed rich experiences of his life. The rhyme is fluent, and the content is full of wonderful insights like "Friends encourage. Guides acknowledge. Teachers validate. Leaders connect all three." Read this marvelous collection of poems to experience the rich expressions on relations and to appreciate the treasure that is life.

Aim of this book is to give an update on the main issues in sports traumatology and orthopedics, involving different body sections.

Exploring the most important aspects of sports medicine - from anatomy to normal movements description, from diagnosis to sports injuries treatment, from conservative to surgical treatments - it gives a global overview of the field, describing also diagnostic tools recently introduced in this field, such as hip arthroscopy, and taking into consideration related areas like nutrition, prevention, training and rehabilitation.

The single chapters deal with relevant problems such as emergencies on the field, pathologies of the upper and lower extremity, spine problems in athletes. Each injury is approached on the basis of both the specific body area and of the different sports/activities.

Written by a multidisciplinary team of experts, this volume will be a fundamental book for orthopedic surgeons, physiotherapists, general practitioners, personal and athletic trainers, offering them a useful tool for the management of most frequent injuries in sports medicine.