Author(s): Peter Brukner; Karim Khan

Sports Medicine

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)