SOFT TISSUE INJURIES SERIES
Soft tissue injuries: principles of biomechanics, physiotherapy and imaging
1 Emergency Department, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, UK
2 Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, UK
3 Countess of Chester Hospital, Chester, UK
Correspondence to:
Mr J Sloan, Emergency Department, Countess of Chester Hospital, Liverpool Road, Chester CH2 1UK, UK; john.sloan@coch.nhs.uk
Accepted 30 July 2007
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In the second of this series on soft tissue injury, the principles of biomechanics, physiotherapy and imaging are covered. Although injuries vary immensely in severity and according to location, an understanding of key areas helps practitioners to assess and manage injuries from first principles. The "key areas" involved include anatomy, physiology and pathology, subjects which tend to be learned now in less detail than previously.
The ability to assess injuries from first principles is a learning goal, and structured learning combined with supervised clinical teaching should allow all practitioners to develop this expertise. Sufficient volume of clinical caseload is perhaps the rate-limiting factor for many, partly through more sensible rotas, partly because safety in the home, workplace and roads has minimised serious injury, and partly as the gross pathologies of the past tend to be resolved at a much earlier stage.
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Human biomechanics is the science that studies how our
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