Handbook of Sports Therapy Services: Organization and Operations is a practical guide, appropriate for each member of the multi-disciplinary “Sports Therapy” team, to establishing and effectively delivering the diverse therapy services required for athletes at international, national, and regional sporting events.

✤✤ Provides clear, practical, expert how-to advice on developing and delivering sports therapy services at large
athletic competitions
✤✤ Written by a global cast of sports therapy practitioners with unmatched experience providing therapy
services to elite athletes
✤✤ Developed in collaboration with, and fully endorsed by the Medical Commission of the International
Olympic Committee – the only book on this subject to carry this prestigious endorsement Foreword, XX
Preface, XX

1 Sports therapy: Who? What? When? Where? Why? And how?

James E. Zachazewski, David J. Magee

2 A history of sports medicine and sports therapy

James E. Zachazewski, Arthur J. Boland, Nicola Phillips

3 The role and importance of the sports therapist: Pre-event, event, and post-event

Suzanne Werner, Peter Drugge, Tommy Eriksson, Åsa Lönnqvist, Ulrika Tranaeus, Lotta Willberg

4 Hosting international Olympic events: Providing host therapy services at a major games

Randy Goodman

5 Logistical and treatment considerations for team travel prior to an Olympic event

Masaki Katayose, David J. Magee

6 Logistical and treatment considerations for teams traveling to the Olympics

Nicola Phillips, Caryl Becker

7 The importance of communication: Understanding the importance of the event to the athlete, coach and others

Bill Moreau, Peter Toohey

8 Considerations for working with professional athletes (e.g. NBA, NHL, international soccer, international volleyball) vs. the non-professional amateur athlete during Olympic events

Sergio T. Fonseca, Juliana Melo Ocarino, Thales Rezende Souza, Anderson Aurélio da Silva, José Roberto do Prado Junior, Natália Franco Netto Bittencourt, Luciana De Michelis Mendonça

9 To compete or not to compete following injury during Olympic events

Tony Ward

10 Sports nutrition and therapy

Louise Burke, Ron Maughan

11 Appendix: Olympic sports medicine contacts

James Green, Gayle Olson

Index, XX
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