Main description:

Brukner & Khan's Clinical Sports Medicine, the world-leading title in sport and exercise medicine. To accommodate the rapid advances in the profession, this fifth edition has been expanded into two volumes. The first volume, Injuries, is the essential guide to all aspects of preventing, diagnosing and treating sports-related injuries. This second volume, The Medicine of Exercise, focuses on the health benefits of exercise and discusses the current medical issues in sport.

The six sections of The Medicine of Exercise are: * Physical activity and health (6 chapters) * Managing medical problems (16 chapters) * Exercising in challenging environments (5 chapters) * Exercise medicine for specific groups (5 chapters) * Performance and ethics (5 chapters) * Practical sports medicine (3 chapters)

Contents:

Table of Contents for Volume 1

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

Table of Contents for Volume 2

PART AEXERCISE AND HEALTH
Chapter 1Physical inactivity: A major public health problem
Chapter 2Benefits and risks of physical activity
Chapter 3Prescribing physical activity: The clinical assessment
Chapter 4Prescribing physical activity: The written prescription
Chapter 5Prescribing physical activity: Motivational interviewing
Chapter 6Nutrition for health

PART BMANAGING MEDICAL PROBLEMS
Chapter 7Obesity
Chapter 8Diabetes mellitus
Chapter 9Sudden cardiac death in sport
Chapter 10Cardiovascular symptoms
Chapter 11Respiratory symptoms during exercise
Chapter 12Gastrointestinal symptoms
Chapter 13Haematuria and other urinary symptoms
Chapter 14Neurological conditions
Chapter 15Rheumatological conditions
Chapter 16Osteoarthritis
Chapter 17Osteoporosis and bone health
Chapter 18Infections
Chapter 19The tired athlete
Chapter 20Cancer
Chapter 21Physical activity in the prevention and treatment of depression
Chapter 22Anxiety disorders

PART CENVIRONMENT
Chapter 23Heat
Chapter 24Cold
Chapter 25Altitude
Chapter 26Underwater
Chapter 27Physical activity and the built environment

PART DSPECIAL GROUPS
Chapter 28Children and adolescents
Chapter 29Female-specific considerations in sport: anatomy, physiology, injuries, and performance
Chapter 30Transgender and intersex
Chapter 31Older people
Chapter 32The person with disability

PART EPERFORMANCE AND ETHICS
Chapter 33Nutrition for performance
Chapter 34Drugs and the Athlete
Chapter 35Genetics in exercise and sport
Chapter 36Medico-legal issues
Chapter 37Harassment and abuse

PART FPRACTICAL SPORTS MEDICINE
Chapter 38Emergencies
Chapter 39Medical coverage of endurance events
Chapter 40Multi-sport endurance events