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Chapters from textbooks dealing with sports injuries
Note: These two chapters are provided as Adobe Acrobat PDFs. Adobe Acrobat Reader can be freely downloaded for all operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, and all flavours of Unix and Linux, here.
Chapter 15: Knee Conditions. From the classic text Sports Injury Management, Second Edition, by Anderson, Hall, and Martin, published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, Maryland, 2000. Comments: This chapter provides a solid grounding in the basics of knee-injury biomechanics. (File size: approximately 12 MB.)
Chapter 19: The Knee and Related Structures. From the classic text Principles of Athletic Training, Ninth Edition, by Arnheim and Prentice, published by WCB McGraw-Hill/Mosby-Year, 1997. Comments: This book chapter provides a good grounding in the fundamentals of knee-injury biomechanics. (File size: approximately 9 MB.)
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Chapters from Knee Ligament Rehabilitation, edited by Todd S. Ellenbecker. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Churchill Livingstone (Harcourt), 2000. The chapters below are provided in standard HTML format. Below the HTML-chapter listing of these chapters, there are also two links to the entire textbook in Adobe PDF format.
Chapter 1: Anatomy, David A. Schulz; pages 1-15. This chapter is cross-referenced in the Knee Biomechanics, Functional Anatomy of ACL and Other Ligaments and Biomechanics (including Gait Dynamics), Knee Alignment, and Component Interdependency sections.
Chapter 2: Biomechanics, Richard R. Boeckmann and Todd S. Ellenbecker; pages 16-23. This chapter is cross-referenced in the Knee Biomechanics, Functional Anatomy of ACL and Other Ligaments and Biomechanics (including Gait Dynamics), Knee Alignment, and Component Interdependency sections.
Chapter 3: Clinical Examination, Todd S. Ellenbecker; pages 24-39. This chapter is cross-referenced in the Knee-Injury Diagnostics section.
Chapter 4: Instrumented Examination, Russell M. Paine and Ron M. Johnson,; pages 40-69. This chapter is cross-referenced in the Knee-Injury Diagnostics section.
Chapter 6: Assessment and Treatment of Medial Capsular Injuries, Kevin E. Wilk et al.; pages 89-105. This chapter is cross-referenced in the Injuries Involving the MCL and Treatment Thereof section.
Chapter 7: Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: Evolution of Rehabilitation, K. Donald Shelbourne and Rocci V. Trumper; pages 106-116. This chapter is cross-referenced in the Physiotherapy, Rehabilitation, and Post-Operative Aspects section.
Chapter 11: Posterolateral Instability, Gary J. Calabrese and John A. Bergfeld; pages 160-165. This chapter is cross-referenced in the Injuries and Surgeries pertaining to Posterolateral Structures (includes LCL) section.
Chapter 13: Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction and Rehabilitation, Gary J. Calabrese and John A. Bergfeld; pages 186-193. This chapter is cross-referenced in the PCL Injuries and Reconstructive Surgeries section.
Chapter 15: Patellofemoral Joint Complications and Considerations, Jenny McConnell; pages 202-224. This chapter is cross-referenced in the Patellofemoral Pain, Chondromalacia, Patellar Dislocation, Patellar-Tendon Disruption section.
Chapter 19: Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury in the Female Athlete, Lori Thein Brody; pages 262-275. This chapter is cross-referenced in the Female-Athlete Knee-Injury Incidence and Prevention section.
Chapter 23: Foot Mechanics and Knee Pathology, Robert Donatelli and Bruce Greenfield; pages 307-320. This chapter is cross-referenced in the Biomechanics (including Gait Dynamics), Knee Alignment, and Component Interdependency section.
Chapter 24: Plyometrics in Rehabilitation, Donald Chu; pages 321-344. This chapter is cross-referenced in the General Knee-Rehabilitation Resources (protocols, exercises, etc.) section.
If you would like to access the remaining chapters of the book, or if you would like to view the entire book in two parts, the book has been added as a PDF here. Please note that these PDF files are quite sizeable (50-60 MB each), and may take a while to load if you do not have a high-speed Internet connection at your disposal.
Ellenbecker: Knee Ligament Rehabilitation, Part 1 of 2
Ellenbecker: Knee Ligament Rehabilitation, Part 2 of 2
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