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Sports medicine – the rising prospects of medical tourism industry

Athletic activities often result in injuries or illnesses and the treatment of such injuries is called sports medicine. Sports medicine becomes an important component of the medical tourism industry when injured athletes and sports personalities travel to other destinations to obtain best treatments that will help them return to their sport. Sports medicine is a branch of orthopedic surgery and involves super specialists who master in treating athletic injuries.

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The treatment involves invasive surgeries and arthroscopic measures. Fibroptic instrumentation of the joint is done to make a conclusion about the way injury happened. Sports injuries can be direct or a result of traumatic injury during sport, the treatments are done accordingly. Sports injuries relate to spine, hand/wrist, ankle and foot. Since the stakes involved are too high, all sports personalities wish to seek treatment from the best of medical centers around the work under the guidance of super specialists in the field.

Medical tourism and sports medicine

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Sports medicine embodies the concept of medical tourism, as sports personalities identify most qualified and experienced specialists to take care of their athletic injuries. The passion for the sport makes them reach out to the best of medical professionals. The goal is to return to their sport as soon as possible. Sports medicine is an ideal approach to practice medical tourism.

Post-surgery physical or occupational therapy team has to have effective communications with the treating surgeon to have optimal results. The extreme specialization of orthopedics as a branch has created the need to look out for the subspecialists in the field to perform a particular type of surgery. This has also largely added to need of advanced medical tourism travel.

ISSPORTH

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International Society of Sports Traumatology of Hand was founded in Europe and today constitutes of members from around 50 or more countries. It was founded to manage the surgeries of hand and upper extremities. This society aims to educate people about the importance of hand surgeries specific to athletic and sports injuries. It effectively propagates about the need of involving super specialist hand surgeons in the treatment process.

ISSPORTH is a promoter of medical tourism as well. This concept encourages sports persons to seek treatment from an appropriate specialist and can have the surgery done at the host country of the tournament, and then returning to the home country with continued training.

ISSPORTH has earned many a praises for creating an iPhone application that helps the coach and the athlete to find the nearest ISSPORTH member, hand surgeon for catering to the surgical ailment. Just a single click on a smartphone dials the appropriate number, sends an email to the center.

International Coordinator for the medical sports travel

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Medical travel involving sports injuries require the attention in facilitation of the care of the athlete abroad. Treatment options have to be duly discussed with the trainer or the coach before any commitment to the travel is made. Extensive evaluation of radiographs, nerve studies and MRIs has to be conducted before any particular treatment plan is prepared. It is role of the international coordinator or the facilitator to collect all the necessary data, arranging for the lodging and stay, scheduling the travel and looking after the demands of the athlete.

Today sports medicine has become a field that has tremendously added to the dimensions of the medical tourism industry. Increasing sports culture in the world has added yet another charm in public regarding their specific athlete or sports personalities, which makes them even more cautious about their returning to their sport after an injury.

Summary

Sports medicine has largely added to the medical tourism industry, and helps athletes seek treatments from the best of specialists from around the world.

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