Full Description
Cricket Sports Medicine amalgamates insights from leading experts in various healthcare fields into a cohesive, evidence-based guide that reflects the collaborative spirit essential for optimal cricket care.
The book takes a comprehensive, holistic approach to injury prevention, management, and rehabilitation in cricket. It covers epidemiological data on cricket injuries, biomechanical analysis of key skills like bowling, fielding and wicketkeeping, equipment considerations, pre-participation screening methods, and important conditioning aspects like warm-up and load management strategies. It delves into return-to-play protocols and nutritional guidance for performance and recovery. A dedicated section explains the assessment and management of lumbar stress fractures, with other common cricket injuries and illnesses covered as well.
The text encompasses the latest research, case studies, and practical applications compiled by experts worldwide, empowering healthcare providers with the much-needed tools to deliver superior care to cricketers at every level.
This book caters to the needs of healthcare providers navigating the nuances of cricket-related injuries. It fosters a deeper understanding of the sport's physical demands and the holistic care required for athletes.
Cricket Sports Medicine recognises the range of healthcare professionals involved in cricketers' well-being and serves as an essential resource for doctors, physiotherapists, podiatrists, nutritionists, chiropractors, psychologists, exercise physiologists and all healthcare providers working with cricketers across diverse competitive and recreational levels.
Contents
Part I Foundations of Cricket Sports Medicine and Performance Science.- 1. Injury Epidemiology in cricket.- 2. Injury Surveillance in cricket: Imperatives and Challenges.- 3. Injury risks associated with various match conditions in cricket.- 4. Fast bowling biomechanics and associated injury in cricket.- 5. Throwing and fielding biomechanics and associated injury in cricket.- 6. Wicketkeeping biomechanics and associated injury in cricket.- 7. Personal Protective Equipment in Cricket: The past, present and future.- 8. Pre-participatory musculoskeletal screening in cricket.- 9. Physical performance, psychological and safety considerations in cricket warm ups.- 10. Strength and Conditioning for Injury Reduction and Rehabilitation.- 11. A comprehensive guide to fieldside physiotherapy in cricket - the game within the game.- 12. Load management in cricket - theory and practicalities.- 13. Return to play and return to performance in cricket.- 14. Nutrition for cricket performance, recovery and injury/illness prevention.- 15. Recovery in cricket: practical approaches for optimising performance and preventing injury.- 16. Communication in cricket: The roles and responsibilities of science and medicine staff.- 17. A psychological perspective on injury rehabilitation in cricket.- 18. Injury prevention and rehabilitation of female cricketers.- 19. The youth cricketer - special considerations for a period characterised by rapid growth and maturation.- 20. Injury prevention and rehabilitation in para-cricketers.- 21. The lived experience of injury in cricket.- Part II Specific medical considerations in cricket.- 22. Pre-participation cardiac screening in professional cricket.- 23. Environmental safety considerations in cricket.- 24. Visual performance, eye diseases, and eye protection in cricket.- 25. Management of skin conditions in cricketers including screening for skin cancer.- 26. Optimising health and performance during international cricket travel.- Part III Lumbar stress fractures - the signature injury of bowlers in cricket.- 27. Lumbar stress fractures prevention.- 28. Lumbar stress fractures imaging.- 29. Lumbar stress fractures clinical management.- 30. Lumbar stress fractures surgery.- 31. Personal reflections on the emergence of Cricket Sports Medicine and lumbar stress fracture management in Australia.- Part IV Management of common cricket injuries.- 32. Concussion in cricket: risk, mechanism, identification and return to play.- 33. Shoulder injuries in cricket.- 34. Elbow injuries in cricket.- 35. Wrist and hand injuries in cricket.- 36. Side and abdominal strains in cricket.- 37. Lower limb muscle strains in cricket.- 38. Knee injuries and pain related to cricket.- 39. Foot and ankle injuries in cricket.
