title: The general practitioner as sports physician.
abstract: General practitioners must become more knowledgeable about sports medicine in order both to treat the injured athlete and to provide better rehabilitative treatment and advice on fitness and exercise to other patients. Close involvement with young amateur athletes also helps to keep the older physician "in tune" with the younger generation. Finances remain a major problem for amateur sporting events and sports medicine groups, as well as for the individual physician volunteering his time.
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D005194:Family Practice; D005251:Fees, Medical; D006801:Humans; D012955:Societies, Medical; D013178:Sports Medicine