Sports and Exercise Medicine is a relatively new specialty in the UK. Sports medicine doctors specialise in the diagnosis and management of acute and chronic soft-tissue and bony musculoskeletal injuries. They can arrange rapid and appropriate investigations (such as MRI, ultrasound and xrays), perform joint injections and co-ordinate an appropriate treatment, rehabilitation and return-to-exercise plan.
Only a small percentage of musculoskeletal and soft tissue injuries need surgery. However, the majority of injuries need an accurate diagnosis and a definitive treatment plan. Sports medicine can provide this.
Our Sports & Exercise Expertise includes:
- The medical management of acute and traumatic musculoskeletal injuries, training and overuse injuries (both exercise and work-related) and tendinopathies
- Lower limb
- Hip and groin pain: sportsman's hernia, hip impingement, adductor strain
- Knee pain: patellofemoral pain syndrome, runners knee (Illiotibial band syndrome), patella tendinopathy (jumpers knee)
- Exercise related lower leg pain: medial tibial stress syndrome (shin splints), stress fractures, chronic compartment syndrome
- Foot and ankle: posterior heel pain, Achilles tendinopathy, plantar fasciitis
- Upper limb and shoulder
- Shoulder impingement
- ACJ injury
- Tennis and golfers elbow
- Spine
- Low back pain
- Sciatica