Exercise and Sports Medicine

Medscape and the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) present Exercise and Sports Medicine. This comprehensive site offers valuable resources to aid in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of sports-related injuries. Also featured are the latest medically relevant advancements in exercise science and the uses of physical activity for health. The convergence of sports, medicine, and exercise is a rapidly advancing specialty that integrates therapeutic and preventive use of exercise, fitness development for athletic performance, sports-injury prevention and treatment, and sports nutrition.

Sports Medicine Conditions, Diagnosis, Treatment, Follow-up, and Pictures

Multimedia: Video and SlideShows

Is Sarcopenia Inevitable as We Age? A reader comment and the inexorable changes inflicted by the natural aging process sparked today's commentary.
Medscape Internal Medicine, September 2018
Could It Be as Easy as Prescribing Good Health? Does the act of prescribing healthy behaviors affect health outcomes? Dr Ranit Mishori describes the evidence for social prescribing.
Georgetown University Family Medicine, September 2018
Vitamin D's Fractured Relationship With Bone Perry Wilson explains how Mendelian randomization can separate out the true variables that affect fracture risk, shattering some widely held beliefs about vitamin D supplements.
Medscape, September 2018
Readers Respond: Stop Stigmatizing Opioids Dr Charles Argoff shares the outpouring of responses to an earlier commentary on the proper use of opioids.
Medscape Neurology, July 2018
Exercise: The Right 'Dose' for Improved Cognition This practical advice on exercise dose could motivate adults to get up and move.
Medscape Internal Medicine, June 2018
Life and Times of Leading Cardiologists: Noel Bairey Merz A top swimmer, Dr Bairey Merz received the first female athletic scholarship in the country. She relays her journey filled with 'firsts,' a brush with star power, and a passion for women's health.
theheart.org on Medscape, June 2018
Low Back Pain: Should We Recommend Chiropractic Care? A study looked at adding spinal manipulation and other chiropractic care to the overall management of low back pain.
Medscape Internal Medicine, June 2018
Physiological Analysis of ORBITA Trial Yields New Lessons Speaking with Dr Rasha Al-Lamee, ORBITA's lead investigator, on the latest data to come out of the controversial trial.
Medscape UK, June 2018
ACP Glycemic Target Guidance: An Author Makes the Case Dr Jay H. Shubrook interviews Dr Timothy J. Wilt on ACP's updated guidance statement on pharmacologic treatment of nonpregnant patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Medscape Family Medicine, May 2018
Mitochondrial Diseases: Current State of Understanding Mitochondrial diseases can affect any system by causing any symptom in any organ by any mode of inheritance.
CHOP Expert Commentary, May 2018
Should We View Obesity as Normal and Okay? Many people say that obesity is normal. An expert says we shouldn't shame people because they're fat, but we shouldn't concede that being fat is normal either, because it is unhealthy.
Medscape Business of Medicine, May 2018
Iron Therapy Improves HF, But Not by Improving Anemia Drs Piña and Okonko discuss the surprising effects of iron isomaltoside 1000 on HF and hemoglobin in the FERRIC-HF2 trial presented at ACC 2018.
theheart.org on Medscape, May 2018