Table of Content
Relevant Basic Science and General Imaging Principles.- The Clinician’s Point of View.- Imaging Techniques and Procedures in Sports Injuries.- Muscle Injuries.- Cartilage Trauma.- Tendon and Ligamentous Trauma.- Bone Marrow Edema in Sports Injuries: General Concept.- Overuse Bone Trauma and Stress Fractures.- Pseudotumors in Sports.- Topographic Discussion.- Shoulder Instability.- Rotator Cuff and Impingement.- Scapular, Clavicular, Acromioclavicular and Sternoclavicular Joint Injuries.- Imaging of Sports Injuries of the Elbow.- Imaging of Wrist Injuries.- Finger and Hand.- Pelvis, Hip and Groin.- Sports-related Meniscal Injury.- Knee: Ligaments.- Imaging of Anterior Knee Pain and Maltracking.- Injuries of the Ligaments and Tendons in the Ankle and Foot.- Ankle and Foot: Osteochondral Injuries.- Acute and Overuse Lesions of the Leg and Calf.- The Spine in Sports Injuries: Cervical Spine.- The Spine in Sports Injuries: Thoracic and Lumbar Spine.- Maxillofacial Injuries in Sports.- Thoracic and Abdominal Wall Injuries in Sports.- Special Considerations in the Immature Skeleton.- The Aging Athlete.- Monitoring of Sports Injury Repair.- Natural History and Monitoring of Fractures and Microfractures.- Monitoring of Muscle, Tendon and Ligament Repair.- Addendum.- Sport-Specific Injuries.
About the author
Vanhoenacker F.M., president of the musculoskeletal section of the Royal Belgian Society of Radiology, section editor musculoskeletal European Radiology, reviewer of different journals, incl. Skeletal Radiology, authors or co-author of more than 112 scientific papers.
Gielen J. president VVS (Flemish society of sports medicine)
Maas M., Vice president of the subcommittee on Sports Imaging of the European Society of Musculoskeletal radiology. Chair of the musculoskeletal section of the Dutch Society of Radiology. Vice-chair of the board of medical education University of Amsterdam. Radiology consultant for various national Sports societies. Reviewer of various journals