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Handling the Rough Game: The Slow Evolution of Sports Medicine

In 1980, a torn ACL could end a professional athlete's career. Today, minor surgery and proper rehabilitation can get a player back on his feet before the season's end. In 1980, an on-field brain injury could be overlooked. Today, a hit to the head can sideline a player for weeks as he recovers from a concussion.

The 1985 Chicago Bears, a team known for its hard hits and merciless nature, were welcomed to the White House for the 25th anniversary of their Super Bowl XX victory last week. In the years since the team's glory days, not much has changed in the game or the injuries players suffer, but the treatment of football injuries has evolved considerably.

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“Let us teach sports in school that people can play their whole life,” Gladwell said. “I’m opposed to football being the central sport in schools. It’s the ultimate non-sustainable sport. The longer you play football, the less capable you are of exercising past your physical prime. This is an argument for tennis. It’s an argument for running. It’s an argument for a whole different set of priorities in schools.”

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Doctors love the specialty and can join it with as little as a year of training after their residency, as compared with the more typical two to four years for other specialty training. They see a large group of patients eager for treatment, ranging from competitive athletes to casual exercisers to retirees spending their time on the golf course or tennis court. The problem is that most sports injuries, including tears of the hamstring ligament like Ms. Basle’s, have no established treatments.

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Resources

5 of the Biggest Issues in Sports Medicine

Here four orthopedic surgeons and sports medicine physicians discuss five of the largest issues affecting the field of sports medicine.

Sports Science Exchange

Review the latest research in sports nutrition from many of the world’s most renowned researchers and practitioners.

SportsMD.com

We now have one of the industries most trusted sports medicine content library created by leading sports medicine doctors and specialists. We have over 1,000 sports medicine doctors and specialists enlisted in our directory and opening up their appointments to our SportsMD audience.

Stop Sports Injuries

The comprehensive public outreach program focuses on the importance of sports safety-specifically relating to overuse and trauma injuries. The initiative not only raises awareness and provides education on injury reduction, but also highlights how playing safe and smart can enhance and extend a child's athletic career, improve teamwork, reduce obesity rates and create a lifelong love of exercise and healthy activity.

The Science of Sport

You can pick up your local paper or read the sports news on the internet, and they will tell you WHAT happened. Our aim is to fill in the blanks, and try to explain HOW, WHY, WHERE and WHEN it happened, to give that level of insight that we hope can't be found anywhere else!

Federation Internationale de Medecine du Sport

FIMS aims primarily to promote the study and development of sports medicine throughout the world, and to assist athletes in achieving optimal performance by maximising their genetic potential, health, nutrition, and high-quality medical care and training.

International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education

Today the Council presents itself as an international organisation with a distinct scientific profile as far as its goals, structure, membership, and working bodies are concerned.

International Federation of Sports Medicine

FIMS aims primarily to promote the study and development of sports medicine throughout the world, and to assist athletes in achieving optimal performance by maximising their genetic potential, health, nutrition, and high-quality medical care and training.

International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery & Orthopaedic Sports Medicine

ISAKOS advances the worldwide exchange and dissemination of education, research and patient care in arthroscopy, knee surgery and orthopaedic sports medicine.

International Sports Sciences Association

The International Sports Sciences Association (ISSA) is a distance education institution and certifying agency committed to our students' fitness education and professional goals. Our highly acclaimed online Personal Trainer Certification program has been designed so that our students can turn their passion for fitness into a paycheck.

Korey Stringer Institute

The mission of the Korey Stringer Institute is to provide first-rate information, resources, assistance, and advocacy for the promotion of prevention of sudden death in sport via health and safety initiatives.

National Academy of Sports Medicine

Since 1987, the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) has been a leader in certification, continuing education, solutions and tools for health, fitness, sports performance and sports medicine professionals.

National Center for Sports Safety

NCSS was founded to promote the importance of injury prevention and safety on all levels of youth sports through education and research. The NCSS focuses on decreasing the number and/or severity of injuries through developing and teaching sports safety courses and collecting, analyzing and researching injury data.

Nicholas Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma

NISMAT brings you the most comprehensive and current medical information and references available. Here, you’ll learn about injury treatment and prevention. Training tips and exercise programs. Physical therapy, sports physiology, nutrition, and so much more.

The Physician & Sportsmedicine

Your source for primary care sports medicine clinical and personal health articles and for helpful resources like our Sports Medicine Clinics and Fellowships lists. But we're also your link to the rest of the sports medicine community.

Topend Sports

Sports medicine professionals are vital in maintaining any athlete near the top of their sport - from returning quickly back to the field after any injury, to preventing injuries from occurring in the first place.

Youth Sports Medicine Specialist

Paul Stricker is a specialist in pediatric and adolescent sports medicine who is enthusiastic about the opportunities for young people to have a positive experience with sports and exercise. He was among the first group of physicians to be Board-Certified in both Pediatrics and Sports Medicine.

American Academy of Podiatric Sports Medicine

The American Academy of Podiatric Sports Medicine serves to advance the understanding, prevention and management of lower extremity sports and fitness injuries. We believe that providing such knowledge to the profession and the public will optimize enjoyment and safe participation in sports and fitness activities.

American College of Sports Medicine

Advancing health through science, education and medicine

American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine

We are the premier global sports medicine organization, represented by orthopaedic surgeons and allied health professionals who provide care for athletes.

American Sports Medicine Institute

Our mission is to improve the understanding, prevention, and treatment of sports-related injuries through research and education.

Sports Medicine Australia

We provide expert information, advice and commentary on a diverse range of issues. These range from government policy and funding for Sports Medicine and community activity through to sports health, gender equity, participation of the aged in sport, safe sport for children, to drugs in sport problems.

Sports Medicine New Zealand

SMNZ is a non-profit making multidisciplinary organisation for health professionals, groups and individuals interested in community health, with special reference to the principles of sports medicine and exercise science.

United States Sports Academy

The United States Sports Academy is an independent, non-profit, accredited, special mission sports university created to serve the nation and the world with programs in instruction, research and service.