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Services  - Sports Medicine

Sports Medicine

Sports Medicine is the...

• Medical care and welfare of the exercising population
• Planning rehabilitation after MI to medical support of a world class athlete
• Diagnosis and management of clinical problems related to sports and exercise
• Diverse specialty covering many fields of medicine
  • Exercise and muscle physiology
  • Injury recognition, management and rehabilitation
  • Effects of exercise on human biological systems such as prevention of disease
  • Assessment of physical and functional capacity
  • Environmental medicine
  • Medical care of sports teams at home and abroad
  • Medico legal issues, ethics, drugs in sport
  • Implementation of physical training and pre-participation screening
  • Exercise in the elderly
  • Exercise in children and adolescents
  • Exercise in the female athlete
  • Overtraining-underperformance syndrome
  • Sports psychology
  • Sports radiology

But also covers

• Posture related injuries
• Repetitive strain
• Overuse injuries
• Non-specific muscle soreness
• General improvement in fitness and health

Overlaps with

• Orthopaedics
• Neurology
• Rheumatology
• Accident and Emergency Medicine
• General Practice (Family Practice)
• General Medicine
• Occupational Health
• Physiotherapy
• Rehabilitation
• Podiatry
• Biomechanics
• Sports psychology
• Dietetics
• Pharmacology

It is the Sports Medicine Specialists role to co-ordinate the respective roles of the multidisciplinary professionals providing such a service...!

As an Integrated service we are attempting to incorporate as many of these services and specialists as possible.