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

43 Foot pain

PART C SPECIAL GROUPS OF PARTICIPANTS

44 The younger athlete

45 Military personnel

46 Periodic medical assessment of athletes

47 Working and travelling with teams

48 Career development