Description

Adolescent Medicine: State of the Art Reviews is the official journal of American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Adolescent Health.

This issue provides the adolescent physician with comprehensive, practical and up-to-date information regarding diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic sports injuries, sports concussion, the pre-participation physical evaluation (PPE), mental health concerns, the female athlete, bone health, nutrition, travel, performance enhancing substances, injury rehabilitation, the role of the team physician and injury prevention in youth sports.

Topics in Sports Medicine and Sports Injuries include:

Being a team physician
The preparticipation physical evaluation
Concussions in adolescent athletes: evaluation, management, and return to play guidance
Select musculoskeletal injuries: diagnosis, prevention, and rehabilitation
Overuse and overtraining injuries
Female athlete triad
The care of adolescent dancers
Mental health and pressure in adolescent sports
Performance-enhancing substances
The traveling adolescent athlete
Extreme sports and adolescent athletes