Includes bibliographical references and index

Epidemiology of sports injury and illness / Debbie Palmer-Green -- Immediate care in sport / Andy Smith -- Head injuries in sport / Daniel G. Healy -- Injury to face and jaw / Keith R. Postlethwaite -- Eye injuries in sport / Caroline J. MacEwen -- Management of injuries in children / Julian Redhead -- Management of musculoskeletal injuries in the mature athlete / Peter Brukner and Karim Kahn -- Medical care at major sporting events / Mike Loosemore -- Pulmonary dysfunction in athletes / John Dickinson and James Hull -- Infections / Michael J. Martin -- Unexplained underperformance syndrome (overtraining syndrome) / Richard Budgett and Yorck Olaf Schumacher -- Female athlete triad / Noel Pollock -- The athlete's heart / Aneil Malhotra, Greg Whyte and Sanjay Sharma -- Extreme temperature sport and exercise medicine / Michael J. Tipton -- Diving medicine / Peter Wilmshurst -- Altitude medicine / Sundeep Dhillon -- Physical activity and exercise as medicine / John Buckley -- Sport, exercise and disability / Nick Webborn -- Sport, exercise and obesity / David Haslam -- Sport, exercise and children / Neil Armstrong -- Physical activity and exercise in later life / Dawn A. Skelton and Finbarr C. Martin -- Nutrition, energy metabolism, and ergogenic supplements / Clyde Williams -- Drugs in sport / Roger Palfreeman -- Psychology of injury / Andrew Lane