[Outpatient sports clinic, first impressions].
OBJECTIVE
To review the first year of the outpatient sports clinic in Utrecht University Hospital (AZU), and to demonstrate the feasibility of such a sports clinic.


METHODS
Retrospective study (period: April 1993-March 1994).


METHODS
University Hospital Utrecht, the Netherlands.


METHODS
The patients attended the sports clinic either on referral or on their own initiative. The specialist directly entered the patients' data onto a registration form.


RESULTS
Over a period of one year 461 consultations where given to 271 patients. The patients' average age was 31 years. The commonest sports were soccer, running and tennis. The lower limb was the commonest site of injury (79%) and overuse injuries predominated. For 57% of the patients therapy was instituted, which consisted in 67% of the cases of physiotherapy and in 13% of operative intervention.


CONCLUSIONS
The outpatient sports clinic appears to be visited in particular by senior athletes with chronic complaints caused by surmenage injuries or with residual complaints following acute injuries. Future intramural sports medicine will have to deal not only with treatment of injuries as presented at the sports clinic, but also with prevention of chronic complaints resulting from acute injuries in this group of athletes.
Keizer
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Maasland Ziekenhuis, afd. Orthopedie, Sittard.
Hammacher
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Backx
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Langenhorst
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AM
Hendriks
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ER
Mosterd
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D000328:Adult; D000554:Ambulatory Care Facilities / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D001265:Athletic Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013178:Sports Medicine
Het klinisch sportspreekuur, de eerste ervaringen.