The modern neurological sports medicine physician—the neurosurgeon

Sports medicine, preventive medicine, and modern life. (Independent views)

Sport is one of the essential elements of life today. Ifs value in the prevention of illness should not be under estimated. Sports medicine also has an important part to play in the selection, guidance and supervision of competitive athletes, but it is concerned, above all, with public hygiene and the prevention of ill-health. Sports medicine, like occupational medicine, has an increasing role ...

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...

Aretism: An Ancient Sports Philosophy for the Modern Sports World