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Sports Medicine
Overview
Sports Medicine is a branch of medicine focused on treating and preventing injuries related to sports and physical exercise. Though sports medicine doctors work with athletes and a variety of other patients who have been injured through physical activity.
Appointments with a Sports Medicine physician will require a Medical Doctor referral and will include an examination of the injury, possibly ordering of diagnostic imaging and a treatment plan, which may include physiotherapy, exercise modification, bracing, injections and more.
Sports medicine helps treat:
- Treating and preventing injuries related to sports and physical exercise
