Sports Medicine means many things to many people. Many different disciplines are involved in sports medicine.
Sports Medicine is the use of medicine to treat athletes. The clinical disciplines involved in that include the sports physician, the physiotherapist, the sports podiatrist, and athletic trainer and many more
Sports Medicine is also the use of sports to treat medical problems, like exercise for the cardiac patients and those with depression and other things like fibromyalgia. Those involved in this include the physician, the fitness instructor and the exercise physiologist. Riding for the disabled is another example.
Sports Medicine is also the use of medicine to enhance performance. This includes things like diet.
Anyone considering a career in sports medicine as many pathways to follow.
Sports Medicine is more than the media images of the trainer running onto teh field to treat the famous injuired athlete.
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