1. Sports Medicine Broad medical field encompassing
performance enhancement
And
Injury care and Management

2. Performance Enhancement
Exercise Physiology
Biomechanics
Sport Psychology
Sports Nutrition
Strength and Conditioning

3. Injury Care and Management
Practice of Medicine
Athletic Training
Sports Physical Therapy
Sports Massage Therapy
Sports Dentistry
Osteopathic Medicine
Orthotists/Prosthitists
Chiropractic

4. Field in allied health professions
Athletic Training
Field in allied health professions
Concerned with prevention, management, evaluation, and rehabilitation of injuries related to physical activity

5. Athletic Training Goals Prevention Evaluation and Treatment
Rehabilitation

6. Athletic Training Steady INCREASE in athletic injuries
DECREASE in catastrophic injuries

7. Sports Medicine Team Goal – To combat and manage athletic injuries
Team Members
Athlete
Coach
Athletic Trainer
Doctor
High School – Athletic Director, Parent

8. Athlete

9. Coach

10. Athletic Trainer

11. Doctor Preserve the health and safety of the athlete
Advise on conditioning
Report on fitness
Final determination of fitness (Clearance)
Medical coverage
Education
Supervise the Athletic Trainer

12. Parent

13. Athletic Director
School Level
County Level

14. Legal Concerns Liability
State of being legally responsible for the harm one causes another person

15. Legal Concerns Assumption of Risk
An individual, either by expressed or implied agreement, assumes the danger and relieves the other individual of legal responsibility to protect him or her, thus agreeing to take their own chances.

16. Legal Concerns
Tort
Legal wrong committed against the person or property of another
TWO KINDS
Act of OMISSION – Failure to perform a legal duty
Act of COMMISSION – commits an act that is not legally his/hers to perform

17. Legal Concerns Negligence Medical Diagnosis
Creation of “unreasonable risk of harm to others”
Medical Diagnosis
Can only be made by a licensed physician
Difference between DIAGNOSIS and EVALUATION