Neurological Sports Medicine: A Guide for Physicians and Athletic Trainers: watch your head … and spine! - Publications - Review

American Fitness, Nov-Dec, 2001

Neurological Sports Medicine
A Guide for Physicians & Athletic Trainers
Julian E. Bailer, MD
Arthur L. Day, MD
Editors

Foreword by
Douglas M. Kleiner, PhD, ATC

In addition to the athletes involved in organized sports, many people now have the time and opportunity to participate in recreational activities. Unfortunately, there's a potential risk of injury to the head or spine in most recreation sports; For example, every year in this country alone, approximately 1,300 people sustain fatal injuries while bicycling--with brain injury being the leading cause of death. The extensive list of injuries emphasizes the great need for prevention programs, systematic approaches and neurological expertise in order to positively impact the rate of serious brain, vertebral column or spinal cord injuries that occur in sports.

Because of the likelihood of morbidity and mortality, neurological injuries are among the most complex and feared sport injuries. In recent years, physicians and athletic trainers have gained much knowledge regarding mild brain injury, second impact syndrome and the acute management of spine injuries.

Neurological Sports Medicine: A Guide for Physicians & Athletic Trainers (American Association of Neurological Surgeons; $65.00) is a comprehensive book that addresses a wide range of neurological disorders in a variety of settings. This book is appropriate as a text and reference for physicians of all specialties, athletic trainers and other sports health care providers.

The editors, Julian E. Bailes, Jr., M.D., Professor and Chairman for the Department of Neurosurgery at West Virginia University and Arthur L. Day, M.D., Professor, Co-Chairman and Residency Program Director of the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Florida, assembled the country's experts to create a concise and detailed book about injuries to the brain and spine. Neurological Sports Medicine includes unique sections detailing specific injuries in boxing, ice hockey and other recreational sports. Moreover, the information on neuropsychological assessment of the professional athlete versus the amateur athlete is unique and helpful.

Neurological Sports Medicine bridges the gap between research and clinical practice in a way that few books have previously accomplished. Providing quality patient care, including the safe return of an athlete with a neurological injury, should be the goal of all sports health care providers. Neurological Sports Medicine provides the foundation for the clinical decisions that each professional must make.

For further information, please contact Kristine Rynne, Publisher at American Association of Neurological Surgeons, (847) 378-0544. AF

Reprinted by kind permission of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.