Injuries are a common occurrence in professional sports. In many cases, these injuries are due to overuse of a part of the body when participating in a certain activity.
Sports injuries can be treated by orthopaedic surgeons and sports medicine physicians (90% of all sports injuries are non-surgical).
Sport injury surgeons are orthopaedic surgeons who have under gone further subspecialty training (fellowship training) in surgical sports medicine. This is typically one year in duration (sometimes two) and usually has a research component involved with the clinical and operative training.
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