Dr. Piero Volpi is an Orthopedic Surgeon and Sports Medicine Specialist and Director of the Knee Surgery and Sport Traumatology Unit at Humanitas Clinical Institute IRCCS, Milan. He played professional football from the beginning of the 1970s until 1985 while maintaining his medical studies. He is now Head of Medical Staff FC Internazionale Milan, Italy, and is also Responsible Physician of the Italian Association of Football Players (AIC), an instructor on medical issues for FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association), Vice-president of the Antidoping Commission, and a member of the SLA Commission of FIGC. Dr. Volpi was a Teaching Professor on the Residency Program in Sports Medicine at the University of Milan from 1993 to 2000; since 2001 he has been Teaching Professor on the Residency Program in Orthopedics and Traumatology at the university and has acted as tutor in matters relating to sports trauma and reparative surgery of the knee. During the past 10 years, with his team, he has treated numerous professional athletes across various sports, especially football, and has performed more than 5000 knee and ankle arthroscopies, 3000 knee and ankle ligament surgical procedures, more than 1000 joint replacements, and about 1000 tendon repair and cartilage treatment procedures. He is the author of more than 200 publications (30% in international journals) and has delivered numerous presentations at national and international scientific meetings.

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Part I General Aspects.- 1 Future in Arthroscopy and Sport Medicine.- 2 Injury risk in the Olympic Games.- 3 Tennis: Epidemiology and Injury Mechanism.- 4 Rugby: Epidemiology and injury mechanism.- 5 Basket: Epidemiology and Injury Mechanism.- 6 Football Epidemiology and injury mechanism.- 7 Return to Sport.- Part II Tendon and Muscle.- 8 Groin pain.- 9 Achille tendinopathies.- 10 Achille tendon rupture.- 11 Patellar and quadriceps tendinopathy.- 12 Patellar tendon rupture.- 13 Hamstring Injuries.- 14 Return to Sport after muscle tendon lesion.- Part III Shoulder.- 15 Shoulder imaging evaluation.- 16 Shoulder management the first anterior shoulder dislocation.- 17 Shoulder superior labral repair.- 18 Shoulder anterior instability.- 19 Shoulder Instability with Bony Lesions.- 20 Shoulder Microtraumatic and Atraumatic Instability.- 21 Shoulder posterior Instability.- 22 Shoulder rotator cuff repair.- 23 Treatment of the acute traumatic acromionclavicular dislocation.- 24 Return to sport after shoulder arthroscopy.- Part IV Elbow.- 25 Thrower¿s Elbow.- 26 Biceps and triceps tendon lesions.- 27 Medial Epicondylitis.- 28 lateral Epicondilytis of the Elbow.- 29 Elbow instability.- Part V Wrist.- 30 Wrist legament injuries.- 31 Wrist tendon lesions.- 32 Wrist Fractures.- Part VI Hip.- 33 Hip Imaging evalutation.- 34 Hip anterior femoroacetabular impingement.- 35 Hip tears of acetabular labrum.- 36 Return to Sport after hip arthroscopy.- Part VII Knee.- 37 Medial meniscus.- 38 Lateral meniscus.- 39 Cartilage treatment.- 40 Management of collateral ligament injuries (medial and lateral).- 41 Anterior Cruciate Ligament .- 42 Revision Anterior Cruciate Ligament.- 43 Posterior cruciate ligament.- 44 Posterolateral instability.- 45 Patellar Instability.- 46 Anterior Knee pain.- 47 The Knee Arthritic in Athletes .- 48 Management adolescent ACL lesion.- 49 Management the first patellar dislocation.- Part VI Ankle.- 50 Chronic ankle instability.- 51 Ankle Impingement (anterior and posterior).- 52 Ankle osteochondral lesions.- 53 Ankle arthritis in athletes.- 54 Return to sport after ankle lesions.- Part VII Miscellanea.- 55 Viscosupplementation in Athletes .- 56 Use of PRP in Sport Medicine.- 57 Use of Scaffold in Sport Medicine.- 58 Use of the braces.