Cricket Sports Medicine amalgamates insights from leading experts in various healthcare fields into a cohesive, evidence-based guide that reflects the collaborative spirit essential for optimal cricket care.
The book takes a comprehensive, holistic approach to injury prevention, management, and rehabilitation in cricket. It covers epidemiological data on cricket injuries, biomechanical analysis of key skills like bowling, fielding and wicketkeeping, equipment considerations, pre-participation screening methods, and important conditioning aspects like warm-up and load management strategies. It delves into return-to-play protocols and nutritional guidance for performance and recovery. A dedicated section explains the assessment and management of lumbar stress fractures, with other common cricket injuries and illnesses covered as well.
The text encompasses the latest research, case studies, and practical applications compiled by experts worldwide, empowering healthcare providers with the much-needed tools to deliver superior care to cricketers at every level.
This book caters to the needs of healthcare providers navigating the nuances of cricket-related injuries. It fosters a deeper understanding of the sport's physical demands and the holistic care required for athletes.
Cricket Sports Medicine recognises the range of healthcare professionals involved in cricketers' well-being and serves as an essential resource for doctors, physiotherapists, podiatrists, nutritionists, chiropractors, psychologists, exercise physiologists and all healthcare providers working with cricketers across diverse competitive and recreational levels.
Part I Foundations of Cricket Sports Medicine and Performance Science.-
1. Injury Epidemiology in cricket.-
2. Injury Surveillance in cricket:
Imperatives and Challenges.-
3. Injury risks associated with various match
conditions in cricket.-
4. Fast bowling biomechanics and associated injury in
cricket.-
5. Throwing and fielding biomechanics and associated injury in
cricket.-
6. Wicketkeeping biomechanics and associated injury in cricket.-
7.
Personal Protective Equipment in Cricket: The past, present and future.-
8.
Pre-participatory musculoskeletal screening in cricket.-
9. Physical
performance, psychological and safety considerations in cricket warm ups.-
10. Strength and Conditioning for Injury Reduction and Rehabilitation.-
11. A
comprehensive guide to fieldside physiotherapy in cricket - the game within
the game.-
12. Load management in cricket theory and practicalities.-
13.
Return to play and return to performance in cricket.-
14. Nutrition for
cricket performance, recovery and injury/illness prevention.-
15. Recovery in
cricket: practical approaches for optimising performance and preventing
injury.-
16. Communication in cricket: The roles and responsibilities of
science and medicine staff.-
17. A psychological perspective on injury
rehabilitation in cricket.-
18. Injury prevention and rehabilitation of
female cricketers.-
19. The youth cricketer special considerations for a
period characterised by rapid growth and maturation.-
20. Injury prevention
and rehabilitation in para-cricketers.-
21. The lived experience of injury in
cricket.- Part II Specific medical considerations in cricket.-
22.
Pre-participation cardiac screening in professional cricket.-
23.
Environmental safety considerations in cricket.-
24. Visual performance, eye
diseases, and eye protection in cricket.-
25. Management of skin conditions
in cricketers including screening for skin cancer.-
26. Optimising health and
performance during international cricket travel.- Part III Lumbar stress
fractures - the signature injury of bowlers in cricket.-
27. Lumbar stress
fractures prevention.-
28. Lumbar stress fractures imaging.-
29. Lumbar
stress fractures clinical management.-
30. Lumbar stress fractures surgery.-
31. Personal reflections on the emergence of Cricket Sports Medicine and
lumbar stress fracture management in Australia.- Part IV Management of common
cricket injuries.-
32. Concussion in cricket: risk, mechanism, identification
and return to play.-
33. Shoulder injuries in cricket.-
34. Elbow injuries in
cricket.-
35. Wrist and hand injuries in cricket.-
36. Side and abdominal
strains in cricket.-
37. Lower limb muscle strains in cricket.-
38. Knee
injuries and pain related to cricket.-
39. Foot and ankle injuries in cricket.
Dr. Benita Olivier holds the position of Professor of Rehabilitation in the School of Sport, Nutrition and Allied Health Professions at Oxford Brookes University, along with the Allied Health Professions Research Lead role at the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust in the United Kingdom. Additionally, she serves as the co-director of the Healthy Living Research Centre within the Oxford Institute of Applied Health Research (OxInAHR). Benita also a visiting professor and acts as the Director of the Wits Cricket Research Hub for Science, Medicine, and Rehabilitation at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Her research focus centers on mitigating injury risks in sports, particularly within cricket. Having supervised many postgraduate students and published multiple research studies, Benita is committed to developing critical thinking, research skills, and a passion for scientific discovery among emerging scholars. She is the founder of the Research Masterminds Success Academy, a membership platform for postgraduate students to boost their research productivity, academic skills and work-life balance. Benitas work is driven by a core mission: to effect change by inspiring others to become the best version of themselves.
Dr. John Orchard is a distinguished Sport and Exercise Medicine Physician with a multifaceted career encompassing professional sports team care, sports administration, clinical sports medicine practice, and research. Although he graduated from the University of Melbourne Medical School, he has predominantly worked in Sydney throughout his career. Holding an Adjunct Professor position in the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney, his research primarily focuses on sports injury epidemiology and prevention, boasting over 300 publications and an impressive H-index of 70. Since 2014, he has served as the Chief Medical Officer for Cricket Australia. With two decades of experience across various professional football codes, his contributions to sports medicine were recognized with the award of a Member of the Order of Australia in 2020 for his significant service, particularly in cricket.
