Includes bibliographical references and index.

Epidemiological studies of sports injuries / Colin W. Fuller -- Immediate care / Mark Fillett -- Head injuries in sport / Paul McCrory -- Injury to face and jaw / K.R. Postlethwaite -- Eye injuries in sport / Caroline J. MacEwen -- Groin pain / O.J.A. Gilmore -- Management of injuries in children / John Aldridge -- Exercise induced asthma -- Mark Harries, John Dickinson -- Infections / Geoffrey Pasvol -- Unexplained underperformance syndrome (overtraining syndrome) / Richard Budgett -- Female athlete triad / Karen Birch -- The athlete's heart and sudden cardiac death / Gregory P. Whyte ... [et al.] -- Environmental factors / Mike Tipton -- Sports performance in a polluted environment / Geraint Florida-James, K. Donaldson, Vicki Stone -- Diving medicine / Peter Wilmshurst -- Sport and disability / J. Webborn -- Nutrition, energy metabolism, and ergogenic supplements / Clyde Williams -- Diet, obesity, diabetes, and exercise / Patrick Sharp -- Benefits of exercise in health and disease: challenges to implementing the evidence / John Buckley -- Active in later life / Archie Young, Susie Dinan -- Physiotherapy, sports injuries, and reacquisition of fitness / Caryl Becker, Lynn Booth -- Providing a "one stop shop" for sports medicine / Richard Godfrey -- Drugs in sport / Roger Palfreeman.

All age.