ABSTRACT
Sports medicine shares common ethics with standard medical practice. Do no harm and nonmalecence, principles prohibiting recommendations or actions detrimental to an athlete’s short-term and long-term health, are considered with every action taken in the training room when tending to an injured athlete. Condentiality, informed consent, and truthfulness are absolutely essential for the ethical management of any sports-related medical decision.3 Finally, benecence, the principle of performing acts or making recommendations only potentially benecial to an athlete, is the premier principle. These taken together form the foundation of ethical decision making in sports medicine and will be elaborated upon further in this chapter.
