Featuring more than 950 photographs and drawings - including 500 in full color - this text offers step-by-step instructions on techniques for performing common and complex sports medicine procedures in the upper and lower extremities. Noted experts who have developed or perfected these techniques guide the reader in stepwise detail through each procedure. Where appropriate, the book covers both open and arthroscopic techniques for each injury or problem. The coverage includes the most current and cutting-edge techniques as well as traditional tried and true procedures in operative sports medicine.