Running a Sports Medicine Practice

During the past half-century, numerous major advancements in medical science and technology, performance enhancement, and injury prevention and rehabilitation have had an impact on sports medicine. While these improvements have not dramatically changed the nature of sports medicine, they have changed its practice. In a period of rapid change, the demands of modern sports medicine, combined with changes throughout the health care system, have required new ways of organizing and managing the business of a sports medicine practice.

Sports medicine is the medical subspecialty that is generally concerned with one ...