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Build your understanding of the diagnosis and management of multiple ligamentous injuries of the knee in athletes. Expert contributors explore these issues in-depth: - Initial management; importance of history and clinical examination - Seriousness of the injury, including likelihood and treatment of associated neurovascular injuries - Mechanism of injury, relevant biomechanics, and diagnostic tests - Problems associated with closed treatment - Situations requiring open treatment vs. those that can be handled arthroscopically - Effects of early vs. late repair - Implications for return to play; rehabilitation after repair Chapters are devoted to: - Anatomy, classification, and surgical exposures - High-energy dislocations - Nonligamentous injuries - Combined injuries of the ACL and MCL - Posterolateral corner injuries - PCL injuries - Bicruciate Injuries - Complications This new monograph will broaden your clinical knowledge, yet is concise enough to absorb in just one or two sessions.