The Use of Sports Medicine

One of those very multidisciplinary clinical disciplines is the Sports Medicine.  In sports medicine there are clinical specialists. There a sports medicine specialists in medicine, orthopaedics, podiatry, physiotherapy, dentistry, dietetics, chiropractic, osteopathy and many others. All of them shared one thing which is very common and that is treating the athletes as their patient. The other side of sports medicine is the use of sports as treatment – this includes exercise for cardiac patients; special Olympic; and exercise for the treatment of many other disease processes such as diabetes and arthritis. In every sports team there is a sports medicine specialists that is available to call on to treat the athletes or player.

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30 January 2010 | Health

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