Concussion in Sports, An Issue of Clinics in Sports Medicine - E-Book (The Clinics: Orthopedics)
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He conducts both clinical and scientific research in the area of sports injuries and concussive brain injury. He has multiple medical and scientific publications and served as guest editor for the January issue of Clinics in Sports Medicine entitled, Concussion in Sports.
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Available for download now. Provide feedback about this page. There's a problem loading this menu right now. In these times of long waiting lists, shortages of specialists, and escalating health care costs, patients with musculoskeletal problems can be seen quickly and cost-effectively.
Low to High Price: Amazon Restaurants Food delivery from local restaurants. English Choose a language for shopping. A Guide for Coaches and Parents. In these times of long waiting lists, shortages of specialists, and escalating health care costs, patients with musculoskeletal problems can be seen quickly and cost-effectively.
Quite often, appropriate management with physiotherapy, bracing, orthotics, injections, and so on can eliminate the need for further consultation. For acute injuries, such as ankle sprains and knee ligament injuries, primary care sports medicine physicians can facilitate early diagnosis and management, thereby speeding recovery and preventing long-term disability. Some sports medicine physicians specialize in industrial, or workplace, medicine, while others develop special interests, such as treating musicians and performing artists.
In short, they are a valuable resource and should be recognized and used as such. What are the implications of sports medicine for practising family physicians? Many family physicians also cover shifts in emergency departments, where acute injuries make up a substantial portion of patient encounters, particularly among pediatric and adolescent populations.
How about the child who is too tired to participate in school sports? Could the fatigue and lack of fitness actually be due to undiagnosed exercise-induced asthma? How familiar are you with the benefits of exercise for building and maintaining optimal bone strength?
It is just as critical in younger patients as it is in postmenopausal women for whom you might be considering hormone replacement therapy. What are your opinions on the use of drugs and sport—could you converse knowledgeably about the health risks of steroids in professional baseball?
What about little Johnny, who comes in with his second or third concussion during his season of minor hockey?
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How will you advise him and monitor his safe return to play? In general, people are living longer and have more leisure time. Scores of older adults with osteoarthritic joints either want advice on how to become more active or wish to get back to their previous activities. They are usually extremely motivated to attend physiotherapy and comply with treatment programs. It is every bit as gratifying to help these patients as it is to deal with elite athletes.
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The risks associated with using such medications as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are substantial in these older people, who often have concomitant diseases. Viscosupplementation is an excellent adjuvant therapy. Family physicians who are familiar with these agents and are comfortable injecting joints, can offer a tremendous service to this group of patients.
It is also critical that family physicians encourage physical activity for health promotion and disease prevention.
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With television, video games, and the Internet, children have become increasingly inactive. In addition, the lack of daily high-quality physical education in many schools has contributed to the epidemic of obesity in this country. The importance of an active lifestyle, cessation of smoking, good nutrition, and regular exercise cannot be overemphasized. It is your role, and even your professional duty, to be proactive in counseling your patients for prevention and treatment of such chronic lifestyle diseases as obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and coronary artery disease.
Knowledge in the field of sports and exercise medicine is as critical for practising family physicians as it is for those who pursue it as a more specialized career choice. Current training in this area in both undergraduate and postgraduate programs, however, is frequently insufficient or even absent. Too often students emerge from 4 years of medical school fully conversant with multiple presentations and diagnoses of relatively uncommon and esoteric diseases, but woefully unprepared for the onslaught of common things that they will encounter in their day-to-day practices.
Medical students and residents should actively seek learning opportunities in sports medicine. An increase in demand for this type of training should put pressure on program directors to include it in their curricula and to use the expertise of sports medicine physicians in their community. Lectures and clinical-skills workshops on musculoskeletal examination should be mandatory in the undergraduate years, complemented later by electives and rotations in sports medicine.
Other physicians who have been out in practice for a while might also feel the need to update their skills, and wonder where to turn for information.