Australians want to exercise more, but change can be challenging. Persistent, gentle, evidence-based support can help these resolutions become reality.
This article focuses on the assessment and management of sport-related concussion in general practice, including guidance for returning patients to sport.
A low dietary energy intake relative to exercise energy demands may result in an array of medical issues.
Accurate diagnosis and treatment of diving-related otological injuries by general practitioners can have profound positive effects on a patient’s long-term outcomes.
This article discusses three common presentations of foot pain following exercise: stress fractures, plantar fasciitis and arthritis.
Knowledge of common injuries and a clear understanding of an athlete’s goals are the bases for successful injury management.
This article reviews the management of common sport-related knee injuries, including injuries to the collateral and cruciate ligaments, the menisci and the extensor mechanism.
Issues confronting the athlete and their primary care physician are the potentially serious risks, responsibilities and challenges facing those involved with sport and physical activity.
This reference book is designed to be used to find medication doses and guidance for other management easily and promptly.
Lifestyle medicine has arisen as a relatively new (adjunct) discipline to assist conventional approaches to clinical care in dealing with lifestyle and environmental disease.
Lifestyle medicine adds to conventional medicine by closely examining environmental and distal determinants and individual behaviours that influence disease.
Readers express their thoughts on books they have reviewed for AJGP.
General practitioners are frontline workers for psychological medicine. This issue presents the latest updates on mental health topics relevant to general practice.