Sports plays a huge role in contemporary society. It is both for enjoyment reasons and also improving fitness and wellness. For kids it shows working together and it has a lot of life lessons with regards to being successful and losing. Sadly, sports participation carries a variety of disadvantages. Cheating and drug use to increase results may occur. Sporting injuries might also happen. Even with regard to a simple sports activity such as running, about a half of runners will get an injury every year. The medical discipline of sports medicine has developed to cope with sport injuries to help keep people in sports activity rather than quitting due to an injury. When more and more people may be kept in sports activity the more those people and society on the whole will enjoy the rewards that sporting participation should bring.
Every clinical speciality provides a sports medicine subspecialty due to the experience that are required to manage athletes. Podiatry offers the speciality called podiatric sports medicine. Within this discipline podiatrists are active in the treatment of and prevention of sports injuries in a range of sports. They use a variety of treatment solutions to take care of a wide range of injuries in athletes. Among the original podiatry practitioners who have been active in sports medicine and brought importance to the speciality was Dr Steven Subotnick, DPM. Steven is referred to as the ‘running foot doctor’ having released a book by the same name. Steven has been recently interviewed on the Facebook livestream, PodChatLive pertaining to his experiences back in the day of podiatric sports medicine. PodChatLive is a weekly chat show where the hosts interview and chat with a different guest during each episode. The video of every episode is on YouTube and the audio edition is additionally on the common podcast websites. During the talk with Steven Subotnick they talked over his thoughts about podiatric sports medicine and also highlighted the backstory to where we are at this time and exactly how we got here. Dr Subotnick also provided a number of very useful clinical pearls based on all his experience.