CLINICAL SPORTS MEDICINE
5TH EDITION
Volume 1 INJURIES
“A striking feature of Clinical Sports Medicine has always been the authors’ relentless commitment to ‘clinical’. This is a unique book.”
Dr Emma K Stokes, President, World Confederation for Physical Therapy
EDITORS
PETER BRUKNER
BEN CLARSEN
JILL COOK
ANN COOLS
KAY CROSSLEY
MARK HUTCHINSON
PAUL McCRORY
ROALD BAHR
KARIM KHAN
Brukner & Khan’s Clinical Sports Medicine, the world-leading title in sport and exercise medicine, is an authoritative and practical guide to physiotherapy and musculoskeletal medicine for clinicians and students.
To accommodate the rapid advances in the professions, this fifth edition has been expanded into two volumes. This first volume, Clinical Sports Medicine: Injuries, is the essential guide to all aspects of preventing, diagnosing and treating sports-related injuries. It serves physiotherapists, team clinicians, athletic trainers, sports therapists, sports rehabilitators and trainers, as well as students in the health professions and in Human Movement Studies.
All chapters have been updated and rewritten by an international team of sports physiotherapists and sports physicians at the top of their fields. More than 550 new figures have been added to bring the total number of illustrations to 1300. There are 15 new chapters, including:
• Shoulder pain
• Acute knee injuries
• Posterior thigh pain
• Low back pain
• Return to play
• Sport-specific biomechanics
The second volume, Clinical Sports Medicine: Exercise Medicine, is scheduled for release in 2018 and will focus on the health benefits of exercise and the medical issues in sport. It will serve general practitioners and other clinicians who prescribe exercise to promote health and to treat medical conditions such as heart disease and diabetes.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
PETER BRUKNER
OAM, MBBS, FACSEP, FACSM, FFSEM
Peter Brukner is a Sport and Exercise Physician and currently the Australian cricket team doctor. He was previously Head of Sports Medicine and Sports Science at the Liverpool Football Club in the UK. Peter is the founding partner of the Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre, a past president of the Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians, and Professor of Sports Medicine at La Trobe University. Peter has been an Olympic team physician and was the Socceroos team doctor at the 2010 World Cup. In 2005 he was awarded the Order of Australia medal (OAM) for services to sports medicine.
KARIM KHAN
MD, PhD, MBA, FACSEP, FACSM, FFSEM
Karim Khan is a Sport and Exercise Physician and Professor of Sports Medicine at the Department of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He is Editor in Chief of the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) and has published more than 300 peer-reviewed research articles. In 2001, he was awarded the Australian Prime Minister’s Medal for service to sports medicine. Karim was profiled in The Lancet in its 2012 Olympic Games issue.
PETERBRUKNER OAM
MBBS, DSc(honoris causa), FACSEP, FSMA, FACSM, FFSEM (Ireland), FFSEM (UK)
PeterBrukner is a Sport and Exercise Physician and Professor of Sports Medicine atLa Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. He was the founding partner of theOlympic Park Sports Medicine Centre and a President of the Australasian Collegeof Sport and Exercise Physicians. Peter has served as Australian team doctor atthe Olympic Games and FIFA World Cup. He was Head of Sports Medicine and SportsScience at Liverpool Football Club before spending 5 years as the Australiancricket team doctor.
Peter hasbeen awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (2006) and the 2025 VIC SeniorAustralian of the Year.
KARIMKHAN AO MD, PhD, FACSEP, DipSportMed (CASEM)
KarimKhan is a Sport and Exercise Physician and Professor at the University ofBritish Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He was Scientific Director of Canada’sInstitute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (CIHR-IMHA) and Editor of theBritish Journal of Sports Medicine (2008–20). He holds honorary doctorates fromthe Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, the University of Edinburgh and McGillUniversity. Karim is an Officer of the Order of Australia (2019).
