Table of Contents

PART A FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES
1 Sports and exercise medicine: the team approach
2 Integrating evidence into shared decision making with patients
3 Sports injuries: acute
4 Sports injuries: overuse
5 Pain: why and how does it hurt?
6 Pain: the clinical aspects
7 Beware: conditions that masquerade as sports injuries
8 Introduction to clinical biomechanics
9 Biomechanical aspects of injury in specific sports
10 Training programming and prescription
11 Core stability
12 Preventing injury
13 Recovery: the science and the art
14 Clinical assessment: moving from rote to rational and rigorous
15 How to make the diagnosis: tips for better history taking, physical examination and investigation
16 Patient-reported outcome measures in sports medicine
17 Treatments for musculoskeletal conditions
18 Principles of sports injury rehabilitation
19 Return to play
PART B REGIONAL PROBLEMS
20 Sports concussion
21 Headache
22 Face, eye and teeth
23 Neck pain
24 Shoulder pain
25 Elbow and arm pain
26 Wrist pain
27 Hand and finger injuries
28 Thoracic and chest pain
29 Low back pain
30 Buttock pain
31 Hip-related pain
32 Groin pain
33 Anterior thigh pain
34 Posterior thigh pain
35 Acute ankle injuries
36 Anterior knee pain
37 Lateral, medial and posterior knee pain
38 Leg pain
39 Calf pain
40 Pain in the Achilles region
41 Acute ankle injuries
42 Ankle pain
PART C SPECIAL GROUPS OF PARTICIPANTS
44 The younger athlete45 Military personnel
46 Periodic medical assessment of athletes
47 Working and travelling with teams
48 Career development

About the Author

Peter Brukner, MB BS, DRCOG, FACSM, FACSP, FASMF is a sports physician and Associate Professor in Sports Medicine at the Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine, University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the founding partner of the Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre, a past president of the Australasian College of Sports Physicians, and an Olympic Team Physician.



Karim Khan, MD, PhD, FACSP, FACSM, Dip Sport Med (CASM) is Professor, Department of Family Practice, and Associate Member, Departments of Physical Therapy and Orthopaedics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Karim combines an active clinical sports medicine practice with a prolific research program related to tendinopathies, bone health, and exercise prescription for health.