Sports On the Field Trauma Emergencies: A SOFTE Course Manual by the European College of Sports and Exercise Physicians

by Mike Carmont, Nikolaos Malliaropoulos, Nicola Maffulli

Overview

Injured athletes present a wide range of injuries on the field. The adoption of a safe standard systematic response by the Medical Team may be able to prevent the situation from becoming worse, improve outcome, and promote recovery.

The SOFTE Manual presents a concise approach for assessing and managing the injured athlete. The Manual provides doctors and physiotherapists, coaches and the rest of the medical team with the necessary knowledge and techniques that are comprehensive. Easily adapted and fit their needs. The skills presented in the SOFTE manual recommend one safe way to perform each technique. The knowledge taught in the SOFTE Manual is easily adapted to all venues for the care of the injured athletes.

By introducing this Manual and maintaining its high quality, the ECOSEP provides another instrument to Team Physicians, Sport and Exercise Physicians and their medical team to reduce the morbidity related to sports trauma. The ECOSEP recommends that doctors and physiotherapists involved in care of athletes to update their skills every 4 years to maintain both their current status in the program and their knowledge of current SOFTE core content.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783011469
Publisher:	ECOSEP: European College of Sport and Exercise Medicine
Publication date:	06/01/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Michael Carmont is Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon working at the Princess Royal Hospital, Telford and Northern General Hospital, Sheffield. He is interested in sports injuries of the knee, foot and ankle, and has a specialist interest in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction and the management of Achilles tendon rupture. Dr Nikos Malliaropoulos MSc, DSM, PhD, ECOSEP, FFSEM UK Nikos is a sports medicine doctor who graduated from the American college ANATOLIA of Thessaloniki and then from the Medical School from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has been Director of the Sports injuries clinic of Track and Field Association in Thessaloniki, since 1986 and was Chief Medical Officer of the Hellenic Olympic Team XXVIII Olympics Athens 2004. Additionally Nikos was Director of the Medical Services of the First South Eastern European Games 2007 and the World Final IAAF Gran Proux 2009 .He is a Fellow of the UK Faculty of Sports and Exercise medicine Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh.He is at the European Judo Union Medical Committee, a Founding member of the European College of Sports and Exercise Physicians – ECOSEP and founding member of the Greek Sports Medicine Association, Member of the British Sports and Exercise medicine Association, and a Member of the Greek Trauma Association. Nikos is also a Balkan Judo Champion in Judo – 5TH Dan and British Judo Coach. Professor Nicola Maffulli, a Consultant Orthopaedic and Sports Injury Surgeons, has published 800 peer reviewed articles in scientific journals and 12 books on Orthopaedic Surgery and in Sports Medicine. Professor Maffulli has particular scientific interest in physiopathology of sports injuries, including anterior cruciate ligament and tendon injuries, and great expertise in arthroscopic techniques of the knee and foot and ankle. A keen athlete in his younger day, his old dream of going to the Olympics has been granted in London: he has been the Field of Play doctor for the Olympic Wrestling Tournament, and has lead a group of seven orthopaedic surgeons to administer the Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle care for both the Olympics and the Paralympics. Prof Maffulli has described more than 40 new surgical techniques in the field of knee, foot and ankle and sports surgery. Many have now become the standard of practice in these fields. Soft tissue problems in sport constitute the major focus of Prof Maffulli’s research.