Domhnall MacAuley & Thomas Best 
Evidence-Based Sports Medicine [PDF ebook] 

Section 1: Prevention.
1 Is it possible to prevent sports and recreation injuries? Asystematic review of randomized controlled trials, withrecommendations for future work.
Jennifer M. Hootman.
2 Evidence-based preparticipation physical examination.
Peter J. Carek.
3 Does stretching help prevent injuries?.
Ian Shrier.
4 What effect do core strength and stability have on injuryprevention and recovery?.
Bryan Heiderscheit and Marc Sherry.
5 Do foot orthoses prevent injury?.
Karl B. Landorf and Anne-Maree Keenan.
6 Who should retire after repeated concussions?.
Paul Mc Crory.
7 What recommendations should be made concerning exercising witha fever and/or acute infection?.
Christopher A. Mc Grew.
8 Should you play sport with a congenital or acquiredabnormality of a solid abdominal organ?.
Abel Wakai and John M. Ryan.
9 What type of exercise reduces falls in older people?.
M. Clare Robertson and A. John Campbell.
10 Is there a role for exercise in the prevention ofosteoporotic fractures?.
Gladys Onambele-Pearson.
Section 2: Acute injury.
11 What is the role of ice in soft-tissue injurymanagement?.
Chris Bleakley and Domhnall Mac Auley.
12 Compression.
Andrew Currie and Matthew W. Cooke.
13 NSAIDs and pain management in sports.
Weiya Zhang.
Section 3: Chronic conditions.
14 Benefits of regular exercise in the treatment and managementof bronchial asthma.
Felix S.F. Ram and Joanna Picot.
15 What is the role of exercise in the prevention of backpain?.
Joanne Dear and Martin Underwood.
16 How should you treat spondylolysis in the athlete?.
Christopher J. Standaert and Stanley A.Herring.
Section 4: Injuries to the upper limb.
17 How evidence-based is our examination of the shoulder?.
Anastasia M. Fischer and William W. Dexter.
18 How effective are diagnostic tests for the assessment ofrotator cuff disease of the shoulder?.
Jeremy Lewis and Duncan Tennent.
19 How should you treat an athlete with a first-time dislocationof the shoulder?.
Marc R. Safran, Fredrick J. Dorey, and Duncan Hodge.
20 Are corticosteroid injections as effective as physiotherapyfor the treatment of a painful shoulder?.
Daniëlle van der Windt and Bart Koes.
21 How should you treat tennis elbow? An updated scientificevidence-based approach.
Alasdair J.A. Santini, Michael J. Hayton, and Simon P.Frostick.
Section 5: Injuries to the groin and knee.
22 How reliable is the physical examination in the diagnosis ofsports-related knee injuries?.
Anthony Festa, William R. Donaldson, and John C.Richmond.
23 What is the optimal treatment of acute anterior cruciateligament injury?.
Graham Bailie and Ian Corry.
24 What is the most appropriate treatment for patellartendinopathy?.
Jill L. Cook and Karim M. Khan.
25 How do you treat chronic groin pain?.
Peter A. Fricker and Greg Lovell.
Section 6: Injuries to the lower leg.
26 How evidence-based is our clinical examination of theankle?.
C. Niek van Dijk.
27 Can we prevent ankle sprains?.
Roald Bahr.
28 How should you treat a stress fracture?.
Kim Bennell and Peter Brukner.
29 What is the best treatment of subcutaneous rupture of the Achilles tendon?.
Deiary Kader, David J. Deehan, and Nicola Maffulli.
30 How to manage plantar fasciitis.
Gerald Ryan.
Multiple-choice question answers.
Index

Domhnall Mac Auley Visiting Professor, Faculty of Life and
Health Science, University of Ulster, Ireland; Specialist in Sport
and Exercise Medicine; Assistant Editor BMJ
Thomas Best Professor and Pomerene Chair in Family
Medicine, Chief, Division of Sports Medicine, The Ohio State
University, Columbus, Ohio, USA