Last reviewed: 5 Oct 2024
Last updated: 22 Sep 2023

Summary

Details

  • Objectives of examination
  • Timing and frequency
  • History
  • Physical examination
  • Clearance for sport
  • Medicolegal considerations
  • Implementation issues
  • Fulfilling the PPE objectives
  • Controversies
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Contributors

Authors

Philip H. Cohen, MD
Philip H. Cohen

Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine

UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine

Los Angeles

CA

Disclosures

PHC has served as a sports medicine lecturer for MCE Conferences and has received travel and hotel reimbursement for these presentations.

Peer reviewers

James C. Puffer, MD

Professor

University of Kentucky School of Medicine

President and Chief Executive Officer

American Board of Family Medicine

Lexington

KY

Disclosures

JCP declares that he has no competing interests.

Margot Putukian, MD

Director of Athletic Medicine

Princeton University

Princeton

NJ

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MP is an author of a reference cited in this topic.

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