Treatment of neck injuries.

Spinal cord injuries are uncommon in sports. Planning and practice for their occurrence, however, remains an essential component of Sideline Medical Team preparedness. Evaluation of cervical nerve injury, cervical cord injury, and cervical disc disease can be complex.

Arthrocentesis and therapeutic joint injection: an overview for the primary care physician.

Athrocentesis and therapeutic joint injection is a safe and useful primary care procedure. Fluid collection and analysis from effused joints is important to establish a cause and therefore inform appropriate management. Therapeutic joint injection can give patients significant, rapid, localized pain relief.

Sports pharmacology and ergogenic aids.

Primary care physicians working with athletes need to ask about drug or supplement use. A basic knowledge of ergogenic substances may help to establish rapport with athletes using these agents. Physicians should be aware that doses used by athletes are far in excess of the ones reported by the literature, and that new substances are constantly being introduced.