Encyclopedia of Football Medicine, Vol.2 - Injury Diagnosis and Treatment

The second volume of the Encyclopaedia of Football Medicine, entitled Injury Diagnosis and Treatment, regroups the most common football injuries while explaining their diagnosis and specific treatments. The content of this second volume was initially developed as the course manual of the second workshop of the UEFA Football Doctor Education Programme, which took place in Amsterdam in 2013. This book explores a variety of treatment methods for each injury, which is highly important for orthopaedics working in the field of football medicine.

Football is the most popular sport in the world, with more than 270 million people playing the game. However, injuries in football remain a major issue, especially given how much is at stake in the game. Awareness of injuries has increased over the years, and both UEFA and FIFA are concerned about the risk of injury and injury patterns in football, especially when it comes to the increasing numbers of hamstring injuries. 

It was therefore essential for UEFA to develop this volume and the workshop to instruct football doctors on injury prevention and the good handling of them.