Sports Medicine

Sports medicine is a medical subspecialty concerned with physical exercise and the prevention and treatment of injuries associated with sports. Physicians are specialist medical doctors who completed medical school, appropriate residency training with a primary specialization in sports medicine or 'sports and exercise medicine.

Some of the sports medicine organizations include

• American College of Sports Medicine
• American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine
• American Medical Society for Sports Medicine
• National Athletic Trainers' Association
• Canadian Athletic Therapists' Association
• American Medical Association
• International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Sports Medicine
• International Association for Dance Medicine and Science
• British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine