PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - R. J. Timpson
TI  - The general practitioner as sports physician
DP  - 1977 Sep 17
TA  - Canadian Medical Association Journal
PG  - 644--646
VI  - 117
IP  - 6
4099  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/117/6/644.short
4100  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/117/6/644.full
SO  - CMAJ1977 Sep 17; 117
AB  - General practitioners must become more knowledgeable about sports medicine in order both to treat the injured athlete and to provide better rehabilitative treatment and advice on fitness and exercise to other patients. Close involvement with young amateur athletes also helps to keep the older physician "in tune" with the younger generation. Finances remain a major problem for amateur sporting events and sports medicine groups, as well as for the individual physician volunteering his time.