Abstract
Sports medicine focuses on helping athletes improve their athletic performance, recover from injury, and prevent future injuries or disorders. Sports orthopedic surgeons learn surgical indications, surgical procedures, postoperative rehabilitation protocols, and conservative treatment of these sports-related injuries. In addition, nontechnical skills such as situation awareness, decision-making, communication skills, teamwork, and leader skills are also mandatory for sports orthopedic surgeons.
In this chapter, fundamentals of being a sport surgeon are introduced in order to care athletes comprehensively.
It is essential that sports orthopedic surgeons learn surgical indications, surgical procedures, postoperative rehabilitation protocols, and conservative treatment of these sports-related injuries. An orthopaedic sport surgeon has to complete a fellowship program after orthopedics residency. The sports medicine fellowship program provides orthopedic surgeons to focus specifically on sports medicine and hone their clinical or surgical skills in that area. Continuous education, training, assessment, or decision-making is the key to achieving excellent long-term clinical outcomes. orthopedic sports surgeons can also play the role of sports physician, for which leadership and communication skills are essential.
Sports medicine as a speciality is still in the early years of subspecialty, and standards vary widely around the world. Therefore, to treat injured athletes to a high level and to improve performance, sports orthopedic surgeons most constantly study the latest knowledge and improve their personal skills in communication, teamwork, and leadership.
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Araki, D., Kurosaka, M. (2017). Fundamentals of Being a Sport Surgeon. In: Karahan, M., Espregueira-Mendes, J., Akan, H. (eds) Motor Skills Training in Orthopedic Sports Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53229-4_1
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