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ShareSports medicine or sport medicine is an interdisciplinary subspecialty of medicine which deals with the treatment and preventive care of athletes, both amateur and professional.
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The sports medicine "team:" includes specialty physicians and surgeons, athletic trainers, physical therapists, coaches, other personnel, and, of course, the athlete.
Sports medicine has always been difficult to define because it is not a single specialty, but an area that involves health care professionals, researchers and educators from a wide variety of disciplines.
Its function is not only curative and rehabilitative, but also preventative, which may actually be the most important one of all.
For more information about the topic Sports medicine, read the full article at Wikipedia.org, or see the following related articles:
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