The following electronic only articles are published in conjunction with this issue of BJSM.

Abdominal pain in long distance runners: case report and analysis of the literature

F C Dimeo, J Peters, H Guderian

Abdominal pain is a common complaint among participants in endurance sports. It may be severe, recurrent, and resistant to treatment. There is no direct evidence of the cause of this phenomenon. This report is of a long distance runner who had severe pain in the upper right abdominal quadrant during strenuous exertion. The symptom had been …