Sport and exercise medicine

Sport and exercise medicine (SEM) is a new specialism in the UK NHS. As the NHS long-term plan leans towards a focus on preventive health and streamlining budgets, using SEM physicians in promoting exercise medicine as part of the holistic treatment of patients, and in creating active hospitals, to encourage people to move more and reduce ‘pyjama paralysis’, can be a way for NHS Trusts to achieve these goals. SEM physicians would improve the healthcare burden of musculoskeletal conditions on public services.
Source: Medicine - Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Tags: Sports and medicine Source Type: research