Together with its companion volume, Petty’s Principles of Musculoskeletal Treatment and Management, this invaluable book provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of musculoskeletal practice for undergraduate physiotherapy students.This volume will help you competently examine and assess patients with a variety of issues. Each region is covered in detail, including muscles, nerves and joints. It offers an up-to-date, person-centred approach, based on clinical reasoning and latest evidence, with numerous learning aids, case studies and illustrations to help you apply theory to practice.Petty's Musculoskeletal Examination and Assessment is edited by leading experts Dionne Ryder and Kieran Barnard, with contributions by highly regarding physiotherapists from across the country, making this set a must-have for all students of physiotherapy.

“I’ve worked in a wide range of settings and been fortunate to teach health professionals and to learn from the best. Despite all that experience, I still find Clinical Sports Medicine extremely useful. It makes me, and my athletes, better. Very easy to quickly check in the clinic. Love every new edition—have not been disappointed.”Mario Bizzini, PT, PhD, Former Executive Board Member, International Federation of Sports Physical Therapy (IFSPT)

Now in its sixth edition, the world-leading series Brukner & Khan’s Clinical Sports Medicine is a practical guide to physiotherapy and musculoskeletal medicine. Written for students and those early in their careers, this first book in the collection, Foundations of Clinical Practice, guides you on how to be a great patient-focused clinician. It lays out the clinical sciences that underpin our field, and details the principles of assessment and multidisciplinary treatment.

Key features• 87 practice pearls that turn years of clinical experience into expert advice• 380 figures, 280 of which are new to this edition• 74 feature boxes to highlight advanced clinical issues• 69 QR codes with hours of additional content

What’s new• Chapter outline, learning objectives and key points for every chapter• 16 new chapters covering how to be a better clinician, how to interpret clinical sciences, and the principles that underpin quality clinical practice• All chapters reworked from scratch by 90 world-leading experts

OTHER BOOKS IN THIS THREE-PART SERIESClinical Sports Medicine 6e: Managing Injuries is the how-to manual on diagnosing and treating sport-related injuriesClinical Sports Medicine 6e: The Medicine of Exercise is for clinicians who prescribe exercise to promote health and who treat exercise-related medical conditions (e.g. exercise-induced asthma)

Merriman's Assessment of the Lower Limb has established itself through two editions as the benchmark text book of lower limb examination and assessment. The third edition preserves the lucidity, logical approach and comprehensive coverage of its predecessors but adds many exciting features, including online resources (videos and images), many new contributors, thorough updating of all chapters - many of which have been completely rewritten - and an entirely new chapter on functional assessment. The online resources (access via http://booksite.elsevier.com/9780080451077) provide extensive videos of assessment techniques and illustrations: practitioners with patients and models show how to assess all parts of the lower limb, and evaluate various conditions.

Together with its companion volume Clinical Skills in Treating the Foot, the new third edition of Merriman's Assessment of the Lower Limb is a truly indispensable guide for podiatry students and practitioners, as well as trainee general practitioners, medical students working in rheumatology, diabetology and orthopaedics, sports therapists and sports medicine trainees.

Now in its sixth edition, the world-leading series Brukner & Khan’s Clinical Sports Medicine is a practical guide to physiotherapy and musculoskeletal medicine. Written for clinicians/practitioners, this second book in the collection, Managing Injuries, is how to diagnose and treat sports-related injuries.

New!

**2025 Textbook and Academic Authors Association (TAA) Textbook Excellence "Texty" Award Winner****Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles in Physical Therapy**With a focus on the normal and abnormal mechanical interactions between the muscles and joints of the body,?Neumann’s Kinesiology of the Musculoskeletal System, 4th Edition provides a foundation for the practice of physical rehabilitation. This comprehensive, research-based core text explores kinesiology as it relates to physical rehabilitation in a clinically relevant and accessible manner. It presents the language of human movement - and acts as a bridge between basic science and clinical management. It helps clinicians effectively address the mechanical-based changes in movement across a person’s lifespan, whether in the context of rehabilitation, recreation, or promotion of health and wellness. Full-color anatomic and kinesiologic illustrations clearly demonstrate the anatomy, functional movement, and biomechanical principles underlying movement and posture. An eBook version, included with print purchase, provides access to all the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. The eBook included with print purchase also features multiple excellent videos of anatomic and kinesiologic principles, answers to study questions from the print book, and additional tables and figures.

En anatomisk resa fylld av råd och tips!

Känslan av lätthet när man tar sig fram i en rasande fart med kroppens kraft. För att inte tala om lyckoruset som sprider sig. Så här kan det kännas när ett träningspass  vare sig det är löpning, cykling, innebandy, padel eller något annat känns som bäst. Värre är det när vi tvingas avbryta passet på grund av överbelastningsskador. Skador som kan hålla i och begränsa oss inte bara i ett par dagar, utan i månader, till och med år, om vi inte behandlar dem rätt. Baksidan av träningen, som många fasar.   

I Skadebibeln går fysioterapeuten Jessika Törnblom Drangert till botten med de vanligaste idrottsskadorna. Hon berättar varför vi ska undvika att träna för länge, för ofta och för hårt. Varför vi ska skynda långsamt med nya träningsformer och-upplägg. Kroppen i synnerhet med åren behöver återhämtning. Men du får också veta varför du inte kan vila dig i form och att din kropp är fantastisk: till och med när du har skadat dig. Häng med på en anatomisk resa från foten upp till nacke och huvud, med skador som hälsporre och stressfraktur, tennisarmbåge och diskbråck. Du kommer att få veta allt om varför dessa uppkommer och hur du blir av med dem. Den senaste vetenskapen varvas med exempel ur verkliga livet och idrottsstjärnors karriärer. Kryddat med effektiva övningar, tips och råd som kommer att hjälpa dig att komma på fötter snabbast möjligt.     

Jessika Törnblom Drangert är legitimerad fysioterapeut med inriktning på idrottsmedicin och har en magisterexamen i medicinsk vetenskap från Karolinska institutet. Hon är utbildad dansare och arbetade på Göteborgsoperan innan hon bestämde sig för att byta bana och specialisera sig inom idrottsmedicin. Hon har varit idrottsmedicinsk expert på Friskispressen och Runner's World och även gett ut romaner i spänningsserien Eldcirkeln. 

"Väl underbyggda goda råd vid akuta lägen förmedlas, liksom enkla till svårare övningar för att underlätta och påskynda en rehabilitering. Skadebibeln är en användbar bok inte bara för idrottslärare och fysioterapeuter och liknande yrkesgrupper. Den kan även fungera bra som självhjälpsbok för alla med träningsambitioner. Betyg 4/5: Mycket bra." Bibliotekstjänst

Every football training session and match should begin with a warm-up in order to improve performance and reduce the risk of injuries.

Warm-up in Football provides scientific evidence for the effect of warming up and describes how performance is closely related to muscle temperature. Furthermore, the book explains how the right warm-up prior to a match and at halftime improves the outcome in football.

This book provides a basic understanding of the value of warming up and presents a significant number of warm-up programs that can be used whether you are training professional, amateur or youth players. The warm-up programs and exercises are tailored to different training and match situations both on and off the pitch.

Highlights from the book include:

• New, inspiring and effective ways of warm-up for training.

• Warm-up programs before matches.

• Warm-up programs to improve performance at the start of the second half.

Warm-up in Football is critical reading for all who have an interest in the coaching and physiology of football.

As more people realize the cardiovascular, metabolic and muscular benefits that regular physical activity provides, the risk for potential injury also increases. To provide successful treatment, all persons involved in the management of injuries must have a thorough understanding of the healing process of the various tissues and also be familiar with the demands of different types of sports.

Written by three world-renowned experts, Sports Injuries, Fifth Edition, comprehensively covers the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of sports injuries. Essential reading for all athletes, coaches/trainers, physiotherapists, nurses and doctors, the updated edition of this highly popular and well-established textbook skillfully integrates scientific background and evidence with practical application. Updated topics covered include:

Richly illustrated with more than 600 color drawings and photographs, this book covers injuries resulting from the full range of international sports. For each type of injury examined, it details the symptoms, mechanism of injury, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation protocols and key points – clearly stating what both non-medical and medical professionals should do in each case of injury. This easy-to-follow textbook features a glossary of key terms and protocols with rehabilitation exercises to provide readers with a solid understanding about how to effectively treat, rehabilitate and prevent sports injuries. This book will be of key reading to academics and students of sport medicine, sport injury, physiotherapy and sports rehabilitation as well as related disciplines.

Written by widely respected acupuncture expert Yun-tao Ma, PhD, LAc, Biomedical Acupuncture for Sports and Trauma Rehabilitation shows techniques that will enhance athletic performance, accelerate recovery after intensive workouts, and speed trauma rehabilitation after injuries or surgeries. Evidence-based research is used to support the best and most effective techniques, with over 100 illustrations showing anatomy, injury, and clinical procedures. Unlike many other acupuncture books, this book uses a Western approach to make it easier to understand rationales, master techniques, and integrate biomedical acupuncture into your practice.

"Finally, a well-referenced, common sense approach to dry needling in sports medicine that discusses maintenance, overtraining, and the effect of the stress response in athletes. This is a long-awaited book that will leave you feeling comfortable with a technique that is very useful not only for athletes, but for all patients of your practice."

Rey Ximenes, MD

The Pain and Stress Management Center

Austin, Texas

"For any clinician involved with assisting athletes recover from injury, as well as providing services to enhance physical performance, this text will be indispensable. This book is a major accomplishment in the field of sports injury and treatment of musculoskeletal and neurological pain."

Mark A. Kestner, DC, FIAMA, CCSP, CSCS

Kestner Chiropractic & Acupuncture Center

Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Get the book that covers what you need to know about foot care, including footwear, prevention, and treatment.

Hiking, backpacking, running, walking, and other athletic endeavors, your feet take a beating with every step. Don’t wait until foot pain inhibits your speed, strength, and style. Learn the basics—along with the finer points—of foot care before pain becomes a problem. Foot expert and ultrarunner John Vonhof and physical therapist Tonya Olson share how the interplay of anatomy, biomechanics, and footwear can lead to happy (or hurting!) feet. Fixing Your Feet covers all that you need to know to care for your feet, right now and hundreds of miles down the road!

Inside You’ll Find

“From heels to toes, products to pathology, resources to rehabilitation, this book has it all. An essential guide.”—Runner’s World

Together with its companion volume, Petty’s Principles of Musculoskeletal Treatment and Management, this invaluable book provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of musculoskeletal practice for undergraduate physiotherapy students.This volume will help you competently examine and assess patients with a variety of issues. Each region is covered in detail, including muscles, nerves and joints. It offers an up-to-date, person-centred approach, based on clinical reasoning and latest evidence, with numerous learning aids, case studies and illustrations to help you apply theory to practice.Petty's Musculoskeletal Examination and Assessment is edited by leading experts Dionne Ryder and Kieran Barnard, with contributions by highly regarding physiotherapists from across the country, making this set a must-have for all students of physiotherapy.

“I’ve worked in a wide range of settings and been fortunate to teach health professionals and to learn from the best. Despite all that experience, I still find Clinical Sports Medicine extremely useful. It makes me, and my athletes, better. Very easy to quickly check in the clinic. Love every new edition—have not been disappointed.”Mario Bizzini, PT, PhD, Former Executive Board Member, International Federation of Sports Physical Therapy (IFSPT)

Now in its sixth edition, the world-leading series Brukner & Khan’s Clinical Sports Medicine is a practical guide to physiotherapy and musculoskeletal medicine. Written for students and those early in their careers, this first book in the collection, Foundations of Clinical Practice, guides you on how to be a great patient-focused clinician. It lays out the clinical sciences that underpin our field, and details the principles of assessment and multidisciplinary treatment.

Key features• 87 practice pearls that turn years of clinical experience into expert advice• 380 figures, 280 of which are new to this edition• 74 feature boxes to highlight advanced clinical issues• 69 QR codes with hours of additional content

What’s new• Chapter outline, learning objectives and key points for every chapter• 16 new chapters covering how to be a better clinician, how to interpret clinical sciences, and the principles that underpin quality clinical practice• All chapters reworked from scratch by 90 world-leading experts

OTHER BOOKS IN THIS THREE-PART SERIESClinical Sports Medicine 6e: Managing Injuries is the how-to manual on diagnosing and treating sport-related injuriesClinical Sports Medicine 6e: The Medicine of Exercise is for clinicians who prescribe exercise to promote health and who treat exercise-related medical conditions (e.g. exercise-induced asthma)

Merriman's Assessment of the Lower Limb has established itself through two editions as the benchmark text book of lower limb examination and assessment. The third edition preserves the lucidity, logical approach and comprehensive coverage of its predecessors but adds many exciting features, including online resources (videos and images), many new contributors, thorough updating of all chapters - many of which have been completely rewritten - and an entirely new chapter on functional assessment. The online resources (access via http://booksite.elsevier.com/9780080451077) provide extensive videos of assessment techniques and illustrations: practitioners with patients and models show how to assess all parts of the lower limb, and evaluate various conditions.

Together with its companion volume Clinical Skills in Treating the Foot, the new third edition of Merriman's Assessment of the Lower Limb is a truly indispensable guide for podiatry students and practitioners, as well as trainee general practitioners, medical students working in rheumatology, diabetology and orthopaedics, sports therapists and sports medicine trainees.

Now in its sixth edition, the world-leading series Brukner & Khan’s Clinical Sports Medicine is a practical guide to physiotherapy and musculoskeletal medicine. Written for clinicians/practitioners, this second book in the collection, Managing Injuries, is how to diagnose and treat sports-related injuries.

New!

**2025 Textbook and Academic Authors Association (TAA) Textbook Excellence "Texty" Award Winner****Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles in Physical Therapy**With a focus on the normal and abnormal mechanical interactions between the muscles and joints of the body,?Neumann’s Kinesiology of the Musculoskeletal System, 4th Edition provides a foundation for the practice of physical rehabilitation. This comprehensive, research-based core text explores kinesiology as it relates to physical rehabilitation in a clinically relevant and accessible manner. It presents the language of human movement - and acts as a bridge between basic science and clinical management. It helps clinicians effectively address the mechanical-based changes in movement across a person’s lifespan, whether in the context of rehabilitation, recreation, or promotion of health and wellness. Full-color anatomic and kinesiologic illustrations clearly demonstrate the anatomy, functional movement, and biomechanical principles underlying movement and posture. An eBook version, included with print purchase, provides access to all the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. The eBook included with print purchase also features multiple excellent videos of anatomic and kinesiologic principles, answers to study questions from the print book, and additional tables and figures.

En anatomisk resa fylld av råd och tips!

Känslan av lätthet när man tar sig fram i en rasande fart med kroppens kraft. För att inte tala om lyckoruset som sprider sig. Så här kan det kännas när ett träningspass  vare sig det är löpning, cykling, innebandy, padel eller något annat känns som bäst. Värre är det när vi tvingas avbryta passet på grund av överbelastningsskador. Skador som kan hålla i och begränsa oss inte bara i ett par dagar, utan i månader, till och med år, om vi inte behandlar dem rätt. Baksidan av träningen, som många fasar.   

I Skadebibeln går fysioterapeuten Jessika Törnblom Drangert till botten med de vanligaste idrottsskadorna. Hon berättar varför vi ska undvika att träna för länge, för ofta och för hårt. Varför vi ska skynda långsamt med nya träningsformer och-upplägg. Kroppen i synnerhet med åren behöver återhämtning. Men du får också veta varför du inte kan vila dig i form och att din kropp är fantastisk: till och med när du har skadat dig. Häng med på en anatomisk resa från foten upp till nacke och huvud, med skador som hälsporre och stressfraktur, tennisarmbåge och diskbråck. Du kommer att få veta allt om varför dessa uppkommer och hur du blir av med dem. Den senaste vetenskapen varvas med exempel ur verkliga livet och idrottsstjärnors karriärer. Kryddat med effektiva övningar, tips och råd som kommer att hjälpa dig att komma på fötter snabbast möjligt.     

Jessika Törnblom Drangert är legitimerad fysioterapeut med inriktning på idrottsmedicin och har en magisterexamen i medicinsk vetenskap från Karolinska institutet. Hon är utbildad dansare och arbetade på Göteborgsoperan innan hon bestämde sig för att byta bana och specialisera sig inom idrottsmedicin. Hon har varit idrottsmedicinsk expert på Friskispressen och Runner's World och även gett ut romaner i spänningsserien Eldcirkeln. 

"Väl underbyggda goda råd vid akuta lägen förmedlas, liksom enkla till svårare övningar för att underlätta och påskynda en rehabilitering. Skadebibeln är en användbar bok inte bara för idrottslärare och fysioterapeuter och liknande yrkesgrupper. Den kan även fungera bra som självhjälpsbok för alla med träningsambitioner. Betyg 4/5: Mycket bra." Bibliotekstjänst

Every football training session and match should begin with a warm-up in order to improve performance and reduce the risk of injuries.

Warm-up in Football provides scientific evidence for the effect of warming up and describes how performance is closely related to muscle temperature. Furthermore, the book explains how the right warm-up prior to a match and at halftime improves the outcome in football.

This book provides a basic understanding of the value of warming up and presents a significant number of warm-up programs that can be used whether you are training professional, amateur or youth players. The warm-up programs and exercises are tailored to different training and match situations both on and off the pitch.

Highlights from the book include:

• New, inspiring and effective ways of warm-up for training.

• Warm-up programs before matches.

• Warm-up programs to improve performance at the start of the second half.

Warm-up in Football is critical reading for all who have an interest in the coaching and physiology of football.

As more people realize the cardiovascular, metabolic and muscular benefits that regular physical activity provides, the risk for potential injury also increases. To provide successful treatment, all persons involved in the management of injuries must have a thorough understanding of the healing process of the various tissues and also be familiar with the demands of different types of sports.

Written by three world-renowned experts, Sports Injuries, Fifth Edition, comprehensively covers the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of sports injuries. Essential reading for all athletes, coaches/trainers, physiotherapists, nurses and doctors, the updated edition of this highly popular and well-established textbook skillfully integrates scientific background and evidence with practical application. Updated topics covered include:

Richly illustrated with more than 600 color drawings and photographs, this book covers injuries resulting from the full range of international sports. For each type of injury examined, it details the symptoms, mechanism of injury, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation protocols and key points – clearly stating what both non-medical and medical professionals should do in each case of injury. This easy-to-follow textbook features a glossary of key terms and protocols with rehabilitation exercises to provide readers with a solid understanding about how to effectively treat, rehabilitate and prevent sports injuries. This book will be of key reading to academics and students of sport medicine, sport injury, physiotherapy and sports rehabilitation as well as related disciplines.

Written by widely respected acupuncture expert Yun-tao Ma, PhD, LAc, Biomedical Acupuncture for Sports and Trauma Rehabilitation shows techniques that will enhance athletic performance, accelerate recovery after intensive workouts, and speed trauma rehabilitation after injuries or surgeries. Evidence-based research is used to support the best and most effective techniques, with over 100 illustrations showing anatomy, injury, and clinical procedures. Unlike many other acupuncture books, this book uses a Western approach to make it easier to understand rationales, master techniques, and integrate biomedical acupuncture into your practice.

"Finally, a well-referenced, common sense approach to dry needling in sports medicine that discusses maintenance, overtraining, and the effect of the stress response in athletes. This is a long-awaited book that will leave you feeling comfortable with a technique that is very useful not only for athletes, but for all patients of your practice."

Rey Ximenes, MD

The Pain and Stress Management Center

Austin, Texas

"For any clinician involved with assisting athletes recover from injury, as well as providing services to enhance physical performance, this text will be indispensable. This book is a major accomplishment in the field of sports injury and treatment of musculoskeletal and neurological pain."

Mark A. Kestner, DC, FIAMA, CCSP, CSCS

Kestner Chiropractic & Acupuncture Center

Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Get the book that covers what you need to know about foot care, including footwear, prevention, and treatment.

Hiking, backpacking, running, walking, and other athletic endeavors, your feet take a beating with every step. Don’t wait until foot pain inhibits your speed, strength, and style. Learn the basics—along with the finer points—of foot care before pain becomes a problem. Foot expert and ultrarunner John Vonhof and physical therapist Tonya Olson share how the interplay of anatomy, biomechanics, and footwear can lead to happy (or hurting!) feet. Fixing Your Feet covers all that you need to know to care for your feet, right now and hundreds of miles down the road!

Inside You’ll Find

“From heels to toes, products to pathology, resources to rehabilitation, this book has it all. An essential guide.”—Runner’s World