The Sports Medicine Patient Advisor (Paperback)

by Pierre Rouzier (Author), Tammy White (Author), Tom Gilfilan (Author), Jane Johnson (Illustrator), Pierre A. Rouzier (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review
"A well written, easy to understand patient education resource for all sports medicine health care practitioners." -- Dave Statton, A.T.C., Agawam High School

"The Sports Medicine Patient Advisor helps my athletes understand their injuries and speeds their return to play." -- Jeff Anderson, M.D., Team Physician University of Connecticut

"These handouts assure us that our patients understand their condition and can care for themselves in their own homes." -- Jonathan Di Lauri, MPT and Jeffrey De Bellis, MS PT, Physical Therapy Solutions

Product Description
The Sports Medicine Patient Advisor contains easy to copy patient education handouts. This is the book that needs to be on every health care provider's bookshelf and should be used constantly. Preprint the topics that are common to your practice and have them readily available to give to your patients. Review the handouts with your patients and be sure they understand how to do the rehab. Your patients will really appreciate learning about their sports injuries or problems and will love getting a home rehabilitation program and a plan that tells them when they can return to their sport or activity.

The information contained in this book refers to the use of rehabilitation aids that can be found anywhere - weights in a gym or a person's office or items found at home like a soup can or a hammer!

This is the resource that will improve patient satisfaction, compliance and return to action! No patient with a sports related problem should leave your office without receiving a handout.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 357 pages
• Publisher: Sportsmed Press; 2 edition (April 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967183111
• ISBN-13: 978-0967183114
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #23,948 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Resource, August 21, 2006

By	M. Black (ATLANTA, GA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have used this book extensively in family medicine clinic and it is a great resource. I only gave it 4 stars because I thought the pages in the previous version were easier to read with larger print, particularly for my geriatric patients. The newer edition has updated handouts but the design is not as patient friendly. It would also be nice to see the text come with a CD ROM of the text in pdf formats to print patient handouts from.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Every Office Should Have This Book!, October 22, 2004

By	Adam G. Wilburn (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Sports Medicine Patient Advisor (Paperback)

Dr. Rouzier's book is exactly what I had been trying to find. My patients always used to ask, "Can you write that down for me?" after I finished explaining their condition and assigned home exercises. Trying to create my own handouts had been on my "To Do" list for years. I have looked at other products but they were either too expensive (most of which were large computer software programs) and or more than I wanted or needed in my practice. This book is perfect--and Dr. Rouzier has done all the work for you. "The Sports Medicine Patient Advisor" is well written, has an easy-to-use layout, includes great graphics and information, and the best thing--encourages making copies of the handouts to give to your patients. I use it every day in my Chiropractic practice. It also saves me time because I can now briefly review my diagnosis with a patient and then just give them the handout--and the patients love them too. This book will pay for itself with your first patient. It is also a great reference for the non-doctor athlete to have on their own shelf. You will love this book!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sports Medicine Advisor: A Must for Nurse Practitioners, June 24, 2003

By	Dr. Eileen Hayes (University of MA, Amherst) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Sports Medicine Patient Advisor (Paperback)

I have found Sports Medicine Advisor extremely helpful in my practice as an NP. My peers consult it regularly. It really helps patients understand their injuries and it gives them an important role in their own recovery. They can take some control over their rehabilitation, have a better understanding of what happened to them, and how to prevent recurrence of their injuries.

As an NP educator, I have recommended the book to my students for the past four years in two of my courses. It is on my bibliography and I endorse it wholeheartedly. It is a unique, easily understood text for both the beginner and the more expert.

Students are eager for information around orthopedic and sports injuries and this text provides them with a practical, common sense approach to evaluation and management of orthopedic injuries. Students don't always buy books that are recommended, but they have embraced this book as essential to their learning and a valuable resource for their clinical practice. They also see that their preceptors in clinical practice use the book very frequently.