ABC of Sports and Exercise Medicine

The ABC of Sports and Exercise Medicine provides general practitioners with a comprehensive overview of the field of sports medicine. This highly illustrated and thoroughly revised and updated new edition:

Reflects new developments and current practice
Includes new chapters on medical care at sporting events, environmental factors of sports and exercise, benefits of exercise in health and disease, nutrition and ergogenic supplements, and the use of drugs in sport
Covers the benefits of exercise among special populations such as the disabled, obese, pregnant, children and the elderly

Covering the latest topics and including case studies of common sports and exercise medicine conditions, the ABC of Sports and Exercise Medicine is an essential practical guide for general practitioners, family physicians, junior doctors, medical students, physiotherapists, and all health professionals dealing with the treatment and prevention of sports–related injuries.

List of Contributors

PART I INJURY

1. Epidemiology of sports injury and illness
Debbie Palmer–Green

2. Immediate care in sport
Andy Smith

3. Head injuries in sport
Daniel G. Healy

4. Injury to face and jaw
Keith R. Postlethwaite

5. Eye injuries in sport
Caroline J. MacEwen

6. Management of  injuries in children
Julian Redhead

7. Management of musculoskeletal injuries in the mature athlete
Peter Brukner and Karim Kahn

8. Medical Care at Major Sporting Events
Mike Loosemore

PART II SYSTEM SPORT AND EXERCISE MEDICINE

9. Pulmonary dysfunction in athletes
John Dickinson and James Hull

10. Infections
Michael J. Martin

11. Unexplained underperformance syndrome (overtraining syndrome)
Richard Budgett and Yorck Olaf Schumacher

12. Female athlete triad
Noel Pollock

13. The athlete s heart
Aneil Malhotra, Greg Whyte and Sanjay Sharma

PART III ENVIRONMENTAL SPORT AND EXERCISE MEDICINE

14. Extreme Temperature Sport and Exercise Medicine
Michael J. Tipton

15. Diving Medicine
Peter Wilmshurst

16. Altitude Medicine
Sundeep Dhillon

PART IV SPECIAL POPULATIONS

17. Physical Activity and Exercise as Medicine
John Buckley

18. Sport, Exercise and Disability
Nick Webborn

19. Sport, Exercise and Obesity
David Haslam

20. Sport, Exercise and Children
Neil Armstrong

21. Physical Activity and Exercise in Later Life
Dawn A. Skelton and Finbarr C. Martin

PART V NUTRITION AND DOPING

22. Nutrition, Energy Metabolism, and Ergogenic Supplements
Clyde Williams

23. Drugs in sport
Roger Palfreeman

24. Psychology of injury
Andrew Lane

Index

Greg P. Whyte isProfessor of Applied Sport & Exercise Science, Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Science, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool

Mike Loosemore is a Physician, The Institute of Sport, University College London, London

Clyde Williams is Professor of Sport Science, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough