title: Give your sports physicals a performance boost.
abstract: Cover the 12 components of the preparticipation physical evaluation (PPE) recommended by the American Heart Association to screen young athletes for potentially life-threatening cardiovascular disease. Perform a genitourinary exam as part of the PPE for young men; assess young women for the criteria associated with the female athlete triad. Perform auscultation while the patient is squatting and while doing the Valsalva maneuver to determine whether any murmurs you detected on examination are associated with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
authors: Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - Robert Wood Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA. womackja@umdnj.edu
authors: Jason
authors: J
authors: Womack
mesh_terms: D001828:Body Image; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000592:standards*; D008487:Medical History Taking; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D010808:Physical Examination / Q000592:standards*; D011482:Protective Devices; D013177:Sports; D013178:Sports Medicine / Q000592:standards*