Table of Contents

1 Epidemiological studies of sports injuries.2 Immediate care.3 Head injuries in sport.4 Injury to face and jaw.5 Eye injuries in sport.6 Groin pain.7 Management of injuries in children.8 Exercise induced asthma.9 Infections.10 Unexplained underperformance syndrome (overtraining syndrome).11 Female athlete triad.12 The athlete's heart and sudden cardiac death.13 Environmental factors.14 Sports performance in a polluted environment.15 Diving medicine.16 Sport and disability.17 Nutrition, energy metabolism, and ergogenic supplements.18 Diet, obesity, diabetes, and exercise.19 Benefits of exercise in health and disease: challenges to implementing the evidence.20 Active in later life.21 Physiotherapy, sports injuries, and the reacquisition of fitness.22 Providing a "one stop shop" for sports medicine.23 Drugs in sport

About the Author

Gregory Whyte, Department of Science and Research. Bisham Abbey National Sports Centre. Mark Harries, Olympic Medical Institute, Northwich Park Hospital, Harrow Clyde Williams, Professor of Sport and Excercise Medicine, School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Loughborough University