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Table of Contents:

Introduction
Preface
Contributors
1 Sudden Death of Athletes 1
2 Heat Illness of Athletes 21
3 Sports Medicine and the Wheelchair Athlete 41
4 Performing Arts Medicine 63
5 Lower Extremity Sports Injuries 77
6 Psychology of Elite Women Athletes 91
7 Food Selection for Endurance Training and Competition 115
8 Performance Enhancement: Blood Boosting, Erythropoietin, and Steroids 141
9 Physiological Predictors of Marathon Run Performance 149
10 Anaerobic Threshold 173
11 Training and the Respiratory Muscles in Pulmonary Rehabilitation 185
12 Hypoxic Ventilatory Response and Performance at High Altitude 211
13 Genetic Adaptation to High Altitude 225
Author Index 263
Subject Index 279