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Our Sports Injuries section has information on hundreds of sports injuries and related conditions. Each injury has a brief description of the injury with symptoms, injury diagnosis, initial treatment and rehabilitation. Many common injuries have related pages which detail rehabilitation, strengthening, stretching, sports massage, sports taping and interviews with leading sports injury professionals. .

The Sports Medicine or "Deportología" is a multidisciplinary specialty, formed in turn by various medical fields, for whose integration is required in addition to the academic phase and hospital assistance to the athlete, both in the field of sports, in training or competition, and in the laboratory of morphological and physiological assessments. Like every medical specialty is based on three pillars: support function, the function of teaching and research function, putting further emphasis on preventive medicine and respecting the guiding principles of medical ethics.

Principles of medical practice

An often overlooked aspect in the practice of medicine concerning the qualities humanitarian and medical ethics. According to the American Board of Internal Medicine, the essential humanitarian qualities that a doctor should possess are:-The integrity: is the personal honesty and reliability in the evaluation and demonstration of their own abilities and skills-Respect: the ability to accept and recognize innate preferences and rights of others. These cognitive and mental attitudes that recognize the dignity and freedom of the patient, compassion is the recognition that the suffering and illness engender special needs health and wellness without generating excessive emotional commitment that can destroy the professional responsibility by the patient. Beyond the definition, the special nature of medical practice requires a great respect for the patient as an individual and as a human being, taking into account the nature of trust placed in the physician-patient bond. Therefore it is the responsibility of the professionals have, in addition to good treatment, humane attitudes and maintain ethical conduct as "informed consent" regarding practices, tests and treatments, "not perform unnecessary procedures or referrals" and "make timely referrals to other specialists "when handling exceed the possibilities of the treating physician," respect for the confidentiality of medical information "," handle the truth "at all times, and" prioritize patient needs "in case of conflicts interest.

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Sports Injuries

We have hundreds of sports injuries explained with treatment, rehab, strengthening exercises and more.

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