Sports Medicine

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What is Sports Medicine

Sports Medicine is a branch of medicine practice concerned with the treatment of injuries resulting from athletic activities, treatments usually include selective movement prescription(SMP) & manual therapy. 

Exercise is one of the key elements to maintain and improve our health. The application goal of sports medicine is to gain benefits from exercise and sports practice, as well as preventing and managing injuries among participants. Just like other medical sciences approaches to prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation, sports medicine is the basic foundation for comprehensive, integrative, & progressive continuous care for optimal wellbeing. 

One of the key elements to maintaining an optimal wellbeing is exercise & varied movements. Just as other medical sciences practices in medicine(pharmacology, surgery etc) sports medicine is a basic foundation for comprehensive, integrative & continuous care for recovery of injuries & preventative goal oriented programme.

Sports medicine healthcare providers have special training to restore function to injured patients so they can get moving again as soon as possible. They are experts in preventing injury in active people. Sports medicine healthcare providers do work with professional athletes, but they also treat children and teens involved in sports and adults who exercise for personal fitness. Plus, they treat people who have physically demanding jobs, like construction workers.

Sports medicine practitioners go through additional special training in biomechanics, exercise prescription, physiology, anatomy, & may include associated surgery(observations only) in some schools.

Where to go for Sports Medicine in Singapore

• SBF Centre
• Sport Singapore
• Movement & Sports Medicine Centre(MSMC)
• Changi Sports Medicine
  

Where to find reputable training in Sports Medicine

1. Australian College of Sports and Exercise Physicians 
2. Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
3. International Fitness Professional Association
   
4. The American Board of Pediatrics
   
5. American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
   
6. Integrated Training Institute