title: Dermatologic aspects of sports medicine.
abstract: The skin lies at the interface of the athlete and the sports milieu and is subjected to many sports-related dermatoses. Direct traumatic injuries, such as friction blisters, black heel, piezogenic papules, and traumatic subungual hematomas, occur regularly. Environmental insults such as sunburn, cold-induced injury, and contact dermatitis plague the sportsman. Cutaneous infections such as "athlete's foot," otitis externa, herpes simplex, and warts occur because of a favorable microenvironment, occurring with sweating and occlusion as well as close interpersonal contact. Sports participation may uncover or exacerbate latent dermatoses such as occurs in acne mechanica and exercise-induced anaphylaxis. The sportsman is best served if the physician considers him as an athlete-patient.
mesh_terms: D001265:Athletic Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology; D001768:Blister / Q000453:epidemiology; D003877:Dermatitis, Contact / Q000453:epidemiology; D005533:Foot Dermatoses / Q000453:epidemiology; D005627:Frostbite / Q000453:epidemiology; D012867:Skin / Q000293:injuries; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012874:Skin Diseases, Infectious / Q000453:epidemiology; D013178:Sports Medicine; D013471:Sunburn / Q000453:epidemiology