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