Sports Medicine

Although a relatively new branch of medicine, sports medicine deals with physical fitness, the prevention and treatment of sport and exercise-related injuries. The goal of specialists in sports medicine is to aid those engaging in exercise and sport, do so safely and effectively to achieve their training goals while preventing injury.

Sports medicine combines general medical education with the specific principles of sports science, exercise physiology, orthopaedics, biomechanics, sports nutrition and sports psychology. For that reason, our team at the Tshwane Orthopaedic Sports and Rehabilitation Centre are made up of orthopaedic surgeons, sport physicians, sports psychologists, sports dieticians, physiotherapists and massage therapists, orthotists and biokinetictists. Together, the team has extensive expertise and experience musculoskeletal medicine allowing them to treat physical conditions of athletes other physically active individuals including acute trauma fractures, sprains, strains, and dislocations as well as chronic overuse injuries like tendonitis, degenerative diseases and overtraining syndrome.