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Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine

Rehabilitation and sports medicine are closely linked clinical fields concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and recovery of musculoskeletal and physical injuries, particularly those arising from physical activity and athletic participation. Sports medicine focuses on the health and performance of phys…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 6 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 2× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2694-2283 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Rehabilitation and sports medicine are closely linked clinical fields concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and recovery of musculoskeletal and physical injuries, particularly those arising from physical activity and athletic participation. Sports medicine focuses on the health and performance of physically active individuals and athletes, addressing the prevention and management of injury and the optimisation of conditioning, while rehabilitation centres on restoring strength, mobility, coordination, and function after injury, illness, or surgery so that individuals can return to activity and competition safely. Practice integrates clinical evaluation, biomechanics, exercise physiology, and graded therapeutic exercise, and it spans the spectrum from acute injury management to long-term recovery and performance enhancement. Representative areas of study include functional approaches to preventing injuries such as ankle sprains, the epidemiology, risk factors, and outcomes of significant injuries including spinal cord injury in athletes, the management of joint and soft-tissue injury and its complications, and the application of monitoring technologies such as continuous glucose measurement to athletic performance and physiology. The fields also draw on comparative and applied exercise physiology to understand how the body adapts to training and stress. Research in rehabilitation and sports medicine combines injury surveillance, clinical and biomechanical assessment, and intervention studies, with the shared aims of reducing injury risk, accelerating and improving recovery, and supporting safe, sustainable physical performance.

Research published in this journal

6 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2018

Journal of Sports and Exercise Medicine

V. Grivas GerasimosCorresponding author
Department of Physical Education and Sport Science University of Thessaly, Greece
Sports and Exercise Medicine Cited by 1 doi:10.14302/issn.2694-2283.jsem-18-1924

How this research is being cited

The 6 articles above have been cited 2 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Sports and Exercise Medicine (ISSN 2694-2283).

Journal editorial board
Gerasimos Grivas · Greece Angelo Cataldo · Italy Guy CHERON · Belgium

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