Sports medicine? The ultimate folly

Ethics in sports medicine--the sports physician.

There are problems about the limitations of medical skills, both generally and in the individual case. In sport every coach and athlete is almost uninterested in present knowledge and its limits. The coach only starts looking for new aids at the borders of the present knowledge. Therefore, the doctor is in the land of speculation, risk, research and new ground, new theory and new fact. In pract...

Musculoskeletal medicine/sports medicine.

S aturday afternoon, five o clock, and its football time in the casualty waiting room. A colourful zoo of mud splattered jerseys, with makeshift splints, slings, and sodden ice packs. In a world of trauma and triage, musculoskeletal injuries take their place at the back of the queue. Weekend warriors limping home with this month’s NSAID and a double Tubigrip. And not just Saturday, for everyday...

Sports Medicine

tory text. The major negative criticism of this book is that many subjects are treated so simply in order to be lucid that the author failed to convey the confusion and controversy that still exists on the subject; this, however, can be more aptly handled by a lecturer in a biochemistry course using this book as a foundation upon which he builds his lectures. In many cases, the author discussed...

Sports medicine meets musculoskeletal medicine.

BACKGROUND Sports medicine is a popular topic pervading the media and has a clear core focus of treating athletes and promoting exercise. While there is considerable overlap with musculoskeletal medicine, the latter is less well known and less well defined, focusing more on spinal pain problems. OBJECTIVE This article highlights some of the similarities and differences between sports medicine...

The future of sports medicine.