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Book review
Coping with sports injuries: psychological strategies for rehabilitation
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Edited by J Crossman. London: Published by Oxford University Press, 2001, pp 202, £27.50, softcover. ISBN 0192632159
This is the first injury specific text that, I have felt, brings together, and acknowledges, all parties involved in rehabilitation (medical staff to athlete to support networks). My medical colleagues (doctors, physiotherapists, masseurs, etc) should read this book and recognise that, if psychological recovery from injury is not included, they run the risk of an incomplete, possibly extended, rehabilitation programme for their athletes.
One of the main attractions of this book is that …