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There Are No Facts, Only Interpretations

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My concerns with regard to sports medicine and its future is the discrepancy between the sophistication and quality and detail of the investigations available to us, and their interpretation. The investigations can be sub divided into two broad categories: those that study structure, which are sophisticated imaging techniques, and those that study function, which are very elaborate performance assessment tools.

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O’Byrne, J.M. (2020). There Are No Facts, Only Interpretations. In: Devitt, B., Karahan, M., Espregueira-Mendes, J. (eds) The Future of Orthopaedic Sports Medicine . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28976-8_28

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