Sports Medicine Today

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Abstract
The supervision of team athletes or individuals engaged in recreational sport by physicians, coaches, trainers, physiologists and many other types of specialists can be conveniently divided into 4 areas: preparation or conditioning, prevention of illness or injury, diagnosis and treatment of illness and injury and rehabilitation and return to sports activity. Although in any one of these areas at any particular time one or the other of the supervisory personnel may play the principal part in dealing with the athlete, the common and ordinarily the most effective, approach is that applied by several such specialists working with the athlete as a team. A most important member of this team is the athlete, who must play an active rather than a passive role.

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