Musculoskeletal rehabilitation and sports medicine. 4. Miscellaneous sports medicine topics.
This self-directed learning module highlights new advances in this topic area. It is part of the chapter on musculoskeletal rehabilitation and sports medicine in the Self-Directed Physiatric Education Program for practitioners and trainees in physical medicine and rehabilitation. This article discusses physiatric duties as a team physician, preparticipation physical examinations, ergogenic aids, heat-related illness, pediatric sports injuries, female sports injuries, and sports medicine topics pertinent to geriatric and physically or mentally challenged athletes. New advances covered in this section include use of creatine, guidelines for the preparticipation examination, sudden cardiac athletic death, pediatric and female anterior cruciate ligament injuries, the female athlete triad, spine screening in Down syndrome athletes, and "boosting" in athletes with spinal cord injury.[1]References
- Musculoskeletal rehabilitation and sports medicine. 4. Miscellaneous sports medicine topics. Smith, J., Wilder, R.P. Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation. (1999) [Pubmed]
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