Accounting for the majority of sports-related disorders, injuries 
of the skeletal muscles have been difficult to define, classify, and treat 
mainly due to a lack of scientific background and missing guidelines. Now, 
for the first time, readers will find full coverage of muscle anatomy, 
physiology, diagnosis, imaging, treatment, rehabilitation, and prevention 
in one comprehensive volume. It includes a standardized 
terminology and new classification system, both based on 

a consensus conference that 
took place in 2011 in Munich.

Special Features:

• Written by top international sports medicine 
  physicians who have more than 35 years of 
  experience treating competitive athletes, including the German national soccer team

• Emphasizes practice-oriented content with a scientific foundation

• Shares dozens of case studies that highlight injury assessment, pitfalls, and 
  complications
• Provides more than 500 vivid, full-color illustrations 
  and photographs, including detailed 
  anatomic diagrams and tables

At a time when athletic muscle injuries have increasingly become the 
focus of research and clinical studies, especially due to their frequency 
and impact on player absence, this book makes an enormous 
contribution to the field. It is essential reading for all sports 
medicine physicians, residents and fellows, physical therapists, coaches, and 
other practitioners involved 

in caring for 
athletes.