ABSTRACT

Sports Medicine (or Sports Medicine and Sports Science) is as an umbrella term comprising Sports Medicine proper as well as Sports Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Physiotherapy, and the Sports Sciences. The latter can be subdivided into five disciplines (Figure 1). Sports Physicians, unlike Sports Orthopaedic Surgeons, deal mostly with the non-surgical aspects such as the management of injuries that are treated non-surgically, exercise testing, exercise prescription, anti-doping, and the management of medical conditions related to sports and exercise.