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Rehabilitation of Extreme Sports Injuries

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This chapter focuses on rehabilitation tactics specific to extreme sports participants and covers various aspects relative to the approach, type of exercises, and progression of the rehabilitative process.

Since it would be unrealistic to provide systematic coverage of such a vast topic in the space of a few pages, this chapter aims to cover the fundamental aspects of extreme sports injury rehabilitation by illustrating a select number of conditions which commonly affect extreme sports participants.

This chapter will deal with four conditions often seen in the rehabilitation clinic. For the purposes of variety, we have chosen to focus on four different areas of the body – the head, the upper limbs, the lower limbs, and the spine, looking specifically at concussion, traumatic anterior dislocation of the shoulder, rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament of the knee, and acute low back pain.

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Henjum, M., Mattson, C., Feletti, F. (2017). Rehabilitation of Extreme Sports Injuries. In: Feletti, F. (eds) Extreme Sports Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28265-7_34

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