The future of sports medicine.

The future of sports medicine.

A SMARTT future for sports medicine

With an expert Editorial team [1], we shall present quality research that reaches a wide readership amongst professionals working in different disciplines. By bringing together research from the fields of sports medicine, arthroscopy, rehabilitation, therapy and technology, which may previously have been found in a range of journals, we hope to provide a single home for the cross-fertilization ...

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...

The reformation of sports medicine.

O n October 31, 1517, Martin Luther protested the role of the church in society by posting his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. These theses were widely disseminated and led to a reformation in religious practice that echoes to this day. Currently, we are at a crossroad of sport and exercise medicine (SEM) as a specialty. There are many threats to its viability and an i...