I t's a cause for celebration! Sports medicine is no longer the deprived and despised orphaned child of the orthopaedic community. From its humble beginnings in the late sixties and early seventies, sports medicine and its practitioners have been viewed as being on the fringe of academic orthopaedics. Those of you in your fifth decade and better may remember when university orthopaedic departme...

Background: As children spend roughly 30 hours per week at school, the associated benefits of physical activity (PA) can be developed within physical education (PE) lessons, break times and after school activities. Therefore, the main aims of this investigation were to (i) investigate the differences between males and females PA levels across the tarmac area during lunch time, (ii) investigate ...

Background Over the past few decades, there has been a trend toward an increasing subspecialization in orthopaedic surgery, with orthopaedic sports medicine being one of the most competitive subspecialties. Information regarding the application and interview process for sports medicine fellowships is currently lacking. Purpose To survey orthopaedic sports medicine fellowship program directors...

1Department of Sport and Exercise, College of Health, Massey University, Palmerston North, 4410, New Zealand 2Applied Sports, Technology, Exercise and Medicine Research Centre, College of Engineering, Swansea University, Swansea, UK 3Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, UK 4Campus du Moulin de la Housse, University of Reims Champagne-Ar...

All physicians are faced at some time with fundamental challenges while striving to respect the principle canons which define a physician's ethical code. These canons are: 1. Primacy of patient interests, 2. Patient confidentiality, 3, Informed consent, and 4. Maintenance of a high standard of care. Athletes, because of their focus on performance, often present unique situations which lead to e...

Quantifying human body composition has played an important role in monitoring all athlete performance and training regimens, but especially so in gravitational, weight class and aesthetic sports wherein the tissue composition of the body profoundly affects performance or adjudication. Over the past century, a myriad of techniques and equations have been proposed, but REVIEW ARTICLE Sports Med 2...

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