# Sports Medicine

Skill · Healthcare and Medical

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/sports-medicine

Sports medicine is a branch of medicine focused on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of injuries and conditions related to physical activity and athletic performance, covering issues like sprains, fractures, concussions, and overuse injuries. Sports medicine physicians, orthopedic surgeons, athletic trainers, and physical therapists work with athletes ranging from weekend warriors to professional and Olympic competitors to optimize recovery and performance. The field also encompasses exercise physiology and injury-prevention strategies.

Related skills: [Physical Therapy](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/physical-therapy), [Athletic Training](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/athletic-training), [Rehabilitation](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/rehabilitation), [Kinesiology](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/kinesiology), [Orthopedics](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/orthopedics), [Exercise Therapy](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/exercise-therapy), [Human Musculoskeletal System](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/human-musculoskeletal-system), [Shoulder Pain](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/shoulder-pain), [Injury Recovery](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/injury-recovery), [Exercise Physiology](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/exercise-physiology), [Injury Prevention](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/injury-prevention), [Kinesiology Taping](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/kinesiology-taping)

## Open roles requiring Sports Medicine (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.