Evaluation and management of traumatic conditions in the athlete

The athletic training room is filled with a multitude of conditions encompassing many different specialties of medicine. When it comes to traumatic injuries in the training room, many of them are not musculoskeletal in nature. Ultrasound in the training room can help identify serious and subtle solid-organ injury and small pneumothoraces. The discussion of these conditions follows a simple outline that helps identify injury/conditions through a proper history and physical. Evidence-based treatment/management/return to play guidelines are discussed.
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Bibliographic Details
Subjects:
Notations:biological and medical sciences
Tagging:Trauma
Published in:Clinics in Sports Medicine
Language:English
Published: 2019
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csm.2019.06.004
Volume:38
Issue:4
Pages:513-535
Document types:article
Level:advanced