Spine problems in the athlete
By: John T. Stinson and Sam W. Wiesel, guest editors.
Contributors: Stinson, John T.; Wiesel, Sam W.
Series: Clinics in sports medicine -- v. 12, no. 3
Publisher: W.B. Saunders Co.
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 624
Subjects: Spine -- Wounds and injuries.; Sports -- Accidents and injuries.; Sports injuries.
Notes: "July 1993"

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Biochemistry of the intervertebral disc / Theodore R. Oegema, Jr.; value: Spinal injury in sport / Reginald L. Tall and William DeVault; value: Biomechanics of the spine in sports / Thomas R. Haher ... [et al.]; value: The lumbar spine in the aging athlete / David R. Hackley and S.W. Wiesel; value: Diagnostic imaging of sports-related spinal disorders / Timothy J. Greenan; value: Spine instability and the Special Olympics / Michael J. Goldberg; value: Spondylolysis and sponsylolisthesis in the athlete / J.T. Stinson; value: Isokinetic back testing in the athlete / Penny D. Flory, Dennis W. Rivenburgh, and J.T. Stinson; value: Nonoperative treatment of low back injury in athletes / Mark D. Chilton and Frank G. Nisenfeld; value: Percutaneous lumbar discectomy / F. Donald Cooney; value: Laser discectomy / Henry H. Sherk ... [et al.]; value: Surgical disc excision / Neil Kahanovitz; value: Arthroscopic microdiscectomy versus nucleotomy techniques / Parviz Kambin and Lawrence R. Cohen; value: Spinal fusion in the athlete / A. Wright, B. Ferree, and S. Tromanhauser; value: Rehabilitation of athletes following spine injury / Thomas J. Hopkins and Augustus A. White.