Title	ACSM's sports medicine : a comprehensive review / senior editor, Francis G. O'Connor ; editors, Douglas J. Casa [and others]
Imprint	Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2013
Connect to	http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&NEWS=n&CSC=Y&PAGE=booktext&D=books&AN=01745939$&XPATH=/PG(0)&EPUB=Y
Descript	1 online resource (xxvi, 859 pages) : illustrations

The field of sports medicine is evolving, accelerated by emerging technologies and changing health care policies. To stay up to speed and ace the Boards, you need a resource that moves at your pace. Sanctioned by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), this handy review addresses all areas of the sports medicine subspecialty board examination--with coverage that spans the full spectrum of sports medicine, from medical to skeletal conditions related to the athlete. The editors and authors include orthopedic surgeons, family physicians, pediatricians, internal medicine specialists, physiatrists, certified athletic trainers, physical therapists, psychologists, nutritionists, exercise physiologists and more, ensuring that you'll benefit from the broad spectrum of expertise embraced by the specialty

The team physician -- Ethical considerations in sports medicine -- Legal issues in sports medicine -- Orthopedic sports medicine terminology -- Basics in exercise physiology -- Articular cartilage injury -- Bone injury and fracture healing -- Nerve injury -- Muscle and tendon injury and repair -- Basic principles of exercise training and conditioning -- Basics in sports nutrition -- Exercise prescription -- Playing surface and protective equipment -- Field-side emergencies -- Mass participation events -- Catastrophic sports injuries -- The preparticipation physical examination -- Diagnostic imaging -- Musculoskeletal ultrasound -- Electrodiagnostic testing -- Exercise testing -- Gait analysis -- Compartment syndrome testing -- Exercise-induced bronchoconstriction testing -- Drug testing -- Neuropsychological testing in concussion -- Cardiovascular considerations -- Dermatology -- Genitourinary -- Ophthalmology -- Otorhinolaryngology -- Dental injuries -- Infectious disease and the athlete -- Endocrinology and sports -- Hematology in the athlete -- Neurology -- Gastroenterology -- Pulmonary -- Allergic diseases in athletes -- Overtraining syndrome -- Exercise and chronic disease -- Environmental injuries: hypothermia, frostbite, heat illness, and altitude illness -- Head injuries -- Cervical spine -- Thoracic and lumbar spine -- Magnetic resonance imaging in the upper extremity -- Shoulder instability -- Rotator cuff pathology -- Sternoclavicular, clavicular, and acromioclavicular injuries -- Shoulder superior labrum anterior and posterior tears and biceps tears -- The throwing shoulder -- Elbow instability -- Elbow articular lesions and fractures -- Elbow tendinosis -- Soft tissue injuries of the wrist and hand -- Upper extremity nerve entrapment -- Magnetic resonance imaging in the lower extremity -- Pelvis, hip, and high injuries -- Knee meniscal injuries