Sports Medicine
Thesis
Sports Medicine is valuable to the medical field because it helps mentally and physically injured athletes play safely again. Sports medicine will help us explore new injures and encounter new medicines to heal them.
Background
Most Sports medicine doctors are orthopedic surgeons, who have extensive training on physiology and musculoskeletal disorders. To become a Sports Medicine doctor it takes four years of education, four years of medical school, four years of orthopedics training, and a year of sports medicine fellowship. Sports medicine specialists focus on fitness not only medical, but also lifestyle-oriented; not only working only with injured athletes, but also with any physically active individual. Sports Medicine …show more content…
They are also now helping the athletes heal through therapy. The most advanced changes in sports medicine is technology. Some of the specific helpful technology. The M.R.I machines (1977) allows you to examine the muscles, Arthroscopic Surgery (1960s) a minimally-invasive approach to joint diagnosis and treatment with few compliments that uses a tube like device with a camera to visualize the joint on a screen with little to no recovery time, also different forms of injectables such as prp's (Platelet-rich plasma) can repair tendons ligaments cartilage and nerves (1987) used in open heart surgery and now in many fields including sports medicine. The x-ray machine (1895) produces an image that looks at the bones under the skin. Weather you are a sports medicine doctor or a physical therapist you see most injuries occur from football, lacrosse, and track and field. Most sports injuries don’t require surgery. It depends on your age and extent of damage to know if you can recover from the injury.
Impact
Sports medicine has many impacts on the world today, allowing injured athletes and patients to play and move again safely. Research has helped us encounter new ways to heal injuries. In fact, sports medicine has helped with all kinds of dysfunction of the body in motion Since the second half of the 20th century, it is no longer acceptable for Americans to grow fat and
Thesis
Sports Medicine is valuable to the medical field because it helps mentally and physically injured athletes play safely again. Sports medicine will help us explore new injures and encounter new medicines to heal them.
Background
Most Sports medicine doctors are orthopedic surgeons, who have extensive training on physiology and musculoskeletal disorders. To become a Sports Medicine doctor it takes four years of education, four years of medical school, four years of orthopedics training, and a year of sports medicine fellowship. Sports medicine specialists focus on fitness not only medical, but also lifestyle-oriented; not only working only with injured athletes, but also with any physically active individual. Sports Medicine …show more content…
They are also now helping the athletes heal through therapy. The most advanced changes in sports medicine is technology. Some of the specific helpful technology. The M.R.I machines (1977) allows you to examine the muscles, Arthroscopic Surgery (1960s) a minimally-invasive approach to joint diagnosis and treatment with few compliments that uses a tube like device with a camera to visualize the joint on a screen with little to no recovery time, also different forms of injectables such as prp's (Platelet-rich plasma) can repair tendons ligaments cartilage and nerves (1987) used in open heart surgery and now in many fields including sports medicine. The x-ray machine (1895) produces an image that looks at the bones under the skin. Weather you are a sports medicine doctor or a physical therapist you see most injuries occur from football, lacrosse, and track and field. Most sports injuries don’t require surgery. It depends on your age and extent of damage to know if you can recover from the injury.
Impact
Sports medicine has many impacts on the world today, allowing injured athletes and patients to play and move again safely. Research has helped us encounter new ways to heal injuries. In fact, sports medicine has helped with all kinds of dysfunction of the body in motion Since the second half of the 20th century, it is no longer acceptable for Americans to grow fat and