Sports Medicine: Just the Facts

Lillegard WA, Butcher JD, Rucker KS: Handbook of Sports Medicine: A System-Oriented Approach, 2nd ed. Woburn, MA, Butterworth-He ...

Section 7 SPECIAL POPULATIONS 96 THE PEDIATRIC ATHLETE Amanda Weiss Kelly, MD Terry Adirim, MD EPIDEMIOLOGY •Twenty to thirty mi ...

Diagnosis of both injuries can be made with plain radiographs. Treatment is conservative including symptom-limited weight-beari ...

CHAPTER 96 • THE PEDIATRIC ATHLETE 561 •Growth cartilage is found at the articular surface, physes, and apophyses. Also, as chi ...

9–12 months if kyphosis with Cobb angle >50°is present (Ali, Green, and Patel, 1999). STRESS FRACTURES Stress fractures occu ...

CHAPTER 96 • THE PEDIATRIC ATHLETE 563 Some discoid menisci are not diagnosed until they are torn, in which case the athlete te ...

SAFETY HEAT AND COLD ILLNESS Children are more susceptible to heat illness than adults. Children have a larger body surface are ...

CHAPTER 97 • THE GERIATRIC ATHLETE 565 and adolescents (Falk and Tenenbaum, 1996; Faigenbaum et al, 1996). In preadolescents, s ...

The long-term effects of a sedentary lifestyle are numerous including functional limitations from chronic disease, obesity, dia ...

CHAPTER 97 • THE GERIATRIC ATHLETE 567 Insidious changes occur over time in sedentary populations leading to a loss of physical ...

Falls, slips, and strains accounted for the majority of these injuries. Inflammatory overuse injuries (muscle strain) are commo ...

CHAPTER 97 • THE GERIATRIC ATHLETE 569 Management begins with making a pathoanatomic diagnosis. Examine the entire region in qu ...

activity into their normal daily lives such as walk- ing to a store or gardening. The goal should be for the person to feel ple ...

CHAPTER 97 • THE GERIATRIC ATHLETE 571 The U.S.A. Track and Field Advisory Panel recently made recommendations as to proper hyd ...

Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics, Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office. August 2000. Feigenbaum MS, Polloc ...

CHAPTER 98 • THE FEMALE ATHLETE 573 Seeman TE, Berkman LF, Charpentier PA et al: Behavioral and psychosocial predictors of physi ...

EATING DISORDERS AND THE FEMALE ATHLETE TRIAD The female athlete triadhas three components: (1) disordered eating, (2) amenorrh ...

CHAPTER 98 • THE FEMALE ATHLETE 575 Risk factors for disordered eating and the female ath- lete triad include the following: Ch ...

Urinalysis Pregnancy test Follicle stimulating hormone Estradiol Prolactin Thyroid function tests b. An electrocardiogram may a ...

CHAPTER 98 • THE FEMALE ATHLETE 577 diagnosis of exclusion. Pregnancy is the most common cause of amenorrhea in sexually active ...