Sports Medicine is a multidisciplinary area within medicine that focuses on the diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and prevention of injury and illness arising from participation in sport and exercise.
Sports physicians are qualified medical doctors who have undergone extensive post-graduate training and obtained qualifications in sport and exercise medicine. Sports physicians are qualified in the assessment of and non-operative treatment of injuries. The sports physician will also coordinate any further investigations required in the assessment of an injury and, if required, facilitate referral to other specialists. Within the Sports Institute the sports physicians are also ideally placed to advise on the prevention of illness and to provide prompt expert medical care when this is required. Sports physicians operate best as part of a multi-disciplinary team and in SNISI our sports physicians work closely with coaches and the rest of their colleagues in the sports medicine, sports science, strength and conditioning, nutrition, performance and lifestyle teams advising on a wide range of medical issues. These include Concussion and, more recently, on issues around COVID-19.
