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A highly popular handbook covering comprehensively the prevention and treatment of injury, this is essential reading for all athletes, trainers, physical therapists and doctors. Extensively illustrated with over 400 full-colour and black-and-white drawings and clinical and action photographs. Lars Peterson, MD, PhD, is Professor of Orthopaedics at the University of Gothenburg, Clinical Director of the Gothenburg Medical Center and President of the International Cartilage Repair Society. He is a former Chairman of the Swedish Society for Sports Medicine. A former Premier League player in both soccer and ice hockey, he has also been the doctor for the Swedish national soccer team and a member of the medical committee of FIFA. Per Renstrom, MD, PhD, is Professor of Sports Medicine at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, and was perviously Professor of Sports Medicine at the University of Vermont. He is President Elect of ISAKOS (International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopedic Sports Medicine) and President of the International Society of Medicine and Science in Tennis; he has previously been Vice President of FIMS. A member of the Medical Commission of the IOC and of the Olympic Academy of Sports Science and of the medical committee of the ITF (International Tennis Federation), he is also medical Director for the ATP Tour in Europe and doctor for the Swedish Davis Cup tennis team.Peterson, Lars is the author of 'Sports Injuries Their Prevention And Treatment', published 2001 under ISBN 9781853179846 and ISBN 1853179841.
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