Abstract
Sports medicine is a broad field derived from many basic and clinical disciplines. It takes cares of areas of pre-participation sports assessment, injury prevention, evaluative management and rehabilitation related to athletic and recreational injuries. Injury aetiology models have evolved over the previous decades highlighting multiple factors which contribute to injury of athletes. Injury prevention exercises and return to play criteria have been developed that take these factors into consideration. In this chapter, an overview of the general aspects of sports medicine is given.
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Achenbach, L. (2020). General Aspects of Sports Medicine. In: Krutsch, W., Mayr, H.O., Musahl, V., Della Villa, F., Tscholl, P.M., Jones, H. (eds) Injury and Health Risk Management in Sports. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-60752-7_10
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