Overview
- Describes the latest insights into the diagnosis and treatment of acute muscle injuries
- Enables the reader, whether medical practitioner or athlete, to understand mechanisms of injury and routes to rapid rehabilitation
- Reports the approaches of clinically experienced medical experts from around the globe
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Gino Kerkhoffs is a specialist in sports orthopedics (with special emphasis on stress fractures and muscle injuries) ankle and knee surgery. His medical practice includes the care of the musculoskeletal injuries of the athletes from the Dutch Olympic and Paralympic team, football players and various dance artists. He is the current scientific program chair for the ESSKA congress, secretary general for ESSKA-AFAS and the past chair of the ESSKA sports committee. His present affiliation is Associate Professor of Orthopedic surgery at the Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Dr. Elvire Servien is a specialist in sports orthopedics, knee and shoulder surgery. She is involved in many sports related projects including medical practice in the Lyon FIFA center of excellence, medical care for the Lyon female football team and Rugby team, as well as a number of other athletes. She is the current chair of the ESSKA sports committee. Her present affiliation is Professor of Orthopedic surgery at the Groupement Hospitalier Lyon-Nord, Centre Albert Trillat, Lyon, France.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Acute Muscle Injuries
Editors: Gino M.M.J. Kerkhoffs, Elvire Servien
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03722-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-03721-9Published: 06 March 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34767-7Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-03722-6Published: 18 February 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 138
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 31 illustrations in colour
Topics: Orthopedics, Sports Medicine, Conservative Orthopedics, Rehabilitation