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BOOK REVIEW
Sports injuries: recognition and management, 3rd edn
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M A Hutson, Oxford University Press, 2001, £34.50, soft cover, pp 251. ISBN 0192632728
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Sports injuries: recognition and management is now in its third edition. It has a single major author and some specialist chapters written by other authors either independently or in collaboration with the major author.
According to the preface: "This book is not an encyclopaedia of medical conditions associated with sport. It is designed primarily for the clinician who requires a method of learning a suitable approach towards the musculoskeletal problems encountered in sport". Unfortunately this approach means the book has come out "neither fish, flesh nor fowl". On one hand it does not provide a comprehensive listing of possible pathologies, and at times the lists given neglect some important and relatively common problems such as labral tears of the hip joint, while giving prominence to rather more obscure diagnoses. On the other hand, although the basic
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