Clinics in Sports Medicine

CLINICS IN SPORTS MEDICINE FOREWORD The Interface Between Sport Psychiatry and Sports Medicine

ports psychiatry—are you crazy? No, but sometimes our athlete patients need a little professional help. Drs. Ian Tofler and Eric Morse have put together an outstanding issue for Clinics in Sports Medicine that I think will provide some new insights for most of us who take care of athletes. They have successfully recruited experts in their area to share everything from interviewing to treatment ...

CLINICS IN SPORTS MEDICINE Upper Extremity Stress Fractures

tress fractures occur typically in the lower extremity, caused by impact loading from running, walking, or jumping. In one large series, Matheson and colleagues [1] reported on 320 stress fractures, in which 90% occurred in the lower extremity. However, upper-extremity stress fractures are now being recognized more frequently. These fractures occur either as a result of repetitive loading at th...

A profile of patients attending sports medicine clinics.

OBJECTIVES To describe the sociodemographic profile of sports injury patients who attend sports medicine clinics for treatment and to describe their reasons for choosing to attend such clinics. METHOD Data were collected as part of a fully audited injury surveillance system implemented within sports medicine clinics. The study was conducted within five allied multidisciplinary sports medicine...

Sports injury clinics.

Why sports injury clinics?