William C. Whiting PhDBiomechanics of Musculoskeletal Injury, Second Edition

This is a great text. I read the first edition cover-to-cover in grad school, and am now working my way through this second edition. Covering the topic completely takes the length of a career, but they've done about as good an overview as one could expect in 300 pages. Very appropriate for any health professional, trainers, or anyone else dealing with musculoskeletal issues of any sort.

Really informative and great at providing illustrated examples. Seemed to be geared more on the medical side but I didn't mind it.

Honestly, it's not what I expected: overview chapters on the biology of tissues and basic concept of mechanics represent a good bases for the understading of injury mechanics. However, the biomechanical description of the mechanism of injury is qualitative. Some very good hints. For the rest, the term "biomechanics" is overstated. The presence of "case study" paragraphs derived from the scientific literature are wellcome. As the latest available edition dates 2008, the book is a little bit obsolete now (as the scientific literature has clarified many concepts about injury mechanism in 10 years). Nevertheless, it is still a very good textbook for sports science degrees.

Ordered for my son. Was delivered directly to him very quickly. Quality as as described. Would order from this vendor again....but it's his LAST YEAR OF GRAD SCHOOL so probably won't be ordering any textbooks for a llllllloooooonnnnnnnggggggg time! Can you tell I'm excited about that?

Textbook required for a class

Quality was like new when I received it.The textbook itself is very detailed, easy to read print, good diagrams.

one of the best books I've ever purchashed :)

The authors Whiting and Zernicke are to be congratulated for this high-quality reference book. As someone who testifies often in civil litigation cases regarding the physical mechanics of motor vehicle and premises accidents and the associated mechanisms of human injury, I found this book to be a superb addition to my technical library. For the uninitiated in injury mechanics, it begins impressively with a low-gear, historical, and introductory manner, and takes the reader though many basic mechanical concepts. The book then covers a wide assortment of human injuries and their causal mechanisms. I observed that the book is very well-formated with titles, sub-titles, text, add-in framed articles, effective anatomical line drawings, and illustrative photographs. While the book is technical in nature, I noted that it was written to be appreciated by those outside the technical area of injury biomechanics. I readily recommend this book to anyone interested in the mechanisms of human injury.