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Sports Medicine
Sports medicine specializes in preventing, diagnosing and treating injuries related to participating in sports and/or exercise, specifically the rotation or deformation of joints or muscles caused by engaging in such physical activities. Because of the competitive nature of sports, a primary focus of sports medicine is the rapid recovery of patients, which drives many innovations in the field.

Sports Medicine has grossly misled athletes today. Athletes are educated wrong and suffer because of this inadequate education. The only time an athlete would ever consider seeing their sportsmed provider is when they’re injured. This would suggest there is absolutely nothing beneficial that can be done for an athlete prior to an injury.

There are 4 basic flaws with today’s Sports Medicine industry:

We wait until an athlete is injured before we do anything.
We only look at the site of injury.
Our treatment goals are “to eliminate symptoms”.
We allow insurance guidelines to dictate what care is provided.

As athletes, we have much greater, more demanding and continual needs that should never be based only on symptoms nor governed by the insurance industry. Structural Management and Functional Movement guidelines are much more suited to the needs of athletes;

Examine biomechanics prior to season and make corrective recommendations.
Begin taking corrective measures immediately.
Never let symptoms be the call to action. The ultimate goal is maximum biomechanical improvements, and once that has been achieved, structural and functional maintenance becomes a lifetime mission.

What athlete has any other goal than a long and healthy career? We must think differently, act differently and be different if we want results better than what the masses are getting. We must act today in doing the things that are now available to us in an effort to improve conditioning and prevent injuries. And, if you become injured, the first call should never be to your primary. They are just not prepared to deal with you or your structural and functional needs.