When we sat down to design ‘‘the one sports medicine textbook’’ for graduating family medicine residents and all sports fellows, we really did not imagine creating something 650 pages long. Sports medicine seemed a relatively simple thing, just muscles and bones and people hurting themselves. But as we tried to compile a single text describing the philosophy, examinations, treatments, procedures, and special considerations inherent in our daily practice, we soon gained a firsthand appreciation for how big the field is and how long it takes to walk across it
