As a physician, sports medicine is a subspecialty of family medicine, internal medicine, emergency medicine, physical medicine/rehab, pediatrics, or orthopedic surgery. This being said, sports medicine is not a residency, it is a fellowship. A physician must complete a residency in one of the aforementioned specialties prior to applying for and initiating sports medicine specific training. The previously listed residencies last from 3-5 years depending on the individual specialty, and in turn adding additional qualification in sports medicine would require 1 additional year of fellowship level training. In doing so, one would obtain a variety of procedural and diagnostic skills, as well as gain an increased familiarity with specific musculoskeletal imaging.

The study of sports medicine and sports science involves applying medical and scientific principles to sports, exercise, and the ability of the body to perform physically. These two fields are broad and can lead to many different educational and career opportunities.

knee joint

Alot!

Like many other disciplines in medicine, sports medicine is becoming more complicated. While you might get by with high school math, the leading edge of this field is involved in injury prevention and the forces that cause them. This involves vector analysis. Still, not really super-advanced math, but complex enough if you don't do it every day.

yes you do. what you need for sports medicine is a 6 year doctors degree in a sports medicine related field, such as athletic training. Once you complete that then you can sit for your boards test and become a certified. The more experience you have the better chances you have at getting a great job. Sports medicine is a highly competitive field. If you really want to be one, study hard

All individuals taking part in various sports are prone to different sports injury. Some of the common injury is the calf injury, thigh injury and the hamstring injury.

False

It is important to address sports injuries very early primarily because you don't want the injury to worsen, spread, or grow in intensity. If the athlete continues to play/exercise/work with the injured part of the body without any kind of proper treatment, the injury could get worse pretty fast.

tendonitis

A concussion

History, Observation, Palpation, Special Tests

It doesn't necessarily act as a brace but it's more for short term support. All it does is counter act with the tendons and support them. That is why you have to make sure it is done correctly or you could hurt yourself more

R: Rest

I: Ice

C: Compression

E: Elevation

Resting the injured body part lets your body go to work on the healing process, also you are not re-injuring the body part.

Icing causes vasoconstriction which will help the swelling go down.

Compression, and Elevation also help with swelling.

if you create less risk like make sure to jump over the person if they are sliding try run away from bungle but still play the games and when shooting a goal NEVER EVER stand in front of the goal

yes, though it depends in which context

Sports medicine doctors typically work anywhere from eight to ten hours per day. They also sometimes work Saturdays and Sundays.

The simple answer here is no. An area of injury may bruise before, during, or after swelling. Depending on the location of the injury, the mechanism of injury, and the time of injury. If the injury is superficial in location, such as a blunt trauma to the skin overlying the thigh, it is common for bruising to occur in conjunction with the swelling. However, these two injury markers are not always present together. For instance, a knee injury will often cause inflammation and swelling of the joint, without any external evidence of bruising. Generally speaking, bruising is a superficial response to injury.