The best-selling comprehensive guide to sports injuries, now completely updated! Sports Injuries: a Self-Help Guide describes how the body works, why injuries happen in adults & children, how to deal with them, whom to consult, complications & consequences of injuries, recovery through rehabilitation exercise programmes, safety measures & injury prevention. Three hundred line drawings illustrate a full range of recovery exercises through stretching, strengthening, mobilizing, & coordinating. This is an essential book for sports participants, coaches, personal trainers, PE teachers, parents, sports science & sports therapy students, & is also a useful reference tool for doctors & therapists.