Orthopaedic sports medicine

Orthopaedic sports medicine
Orthopedics is a large part of sports medicine, and knee injuries a common theme. Here a subject is having the anterior-posterior laxity of his knee tested.
SystemMusculoskeletal
Focus
Sports
especially athletics
Significant diseases
Significant testsMusculoskeletal tests
SpecialistOrthopaedic sports physician
GlossaryGlossary of medicine

Orthopedic Sports Medicine is a combined subspecialty of orthopedic medicine and sports medicine. The word orthopaedic derives from "ortho" which is the Greek root for "straight" and "pais" which is the Greek root for child. During the early history of orthopaedic medicine, orthopaedists used braces, among other things, to make a child "straight."[1]

  1. ^ "About the AAOS." American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.http://www.aaos.org/about/about.asp Archived 2015-11-07 at the Wayback Machine
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