What Is Sports Medicine?

For years high school students struggle to find a career that they believe will have a life long interest in. "Sooner or later you'll realize that the real fulfillment is in helping others. All of the rest is just temporary." (Elie Tehari) Sports medicine is a fairly diverse field in which there are many areas that a college graduate may create a career from, once they have soaked in all the information needed to be competitive in said areas, which focus primarily on recovery of athletes and private customers. In this essay I will explain an expanded variety of sources that give insight to specific jobs titles into a particular field. An in depth look into what sports medicine is, highest and lowest salaries, growth and future of the field,
By definition, sports medicine is " is an area of medical practice concerned with the treatment of injuries resulting from athletic activities. A physician practicing sports medicine focuses on sports-related medical services. This may include preventative measures such as conditioning and injury prevention, as well as treatments such as osteopathic manipulation rehabilitation, or injections. Sports medicine physicians will often treat athletes with back pain due to strain and injury placed on the back from various sports including bicycling, weight lifting, running, and golf. Many in the field would consider it to be more, consider this practice to be much more than treating an athlete, they would argue that it is helping to change patients' lives for the better, so that they may live a longer more active life. In the broad variety of the Sports medicine field careers, Kinesiotherapy has drawn my attention for because on average 1.35 Million youths have serious sports related injuries that end up in an emergency rooms. Many cases will go untreated and live their lives with an injury for 15 years as many Americans do
(Michelle Healy, USA Today, 2012) Which leads to the case that jobs will always be created as the population of the earth grows rapidly each and every year. The predicted job outlook concludes that the careers are likely to grow at a much faster rate between 2014 and 2024. "According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), exercise physiologist jobs (eleven thousand five hundred jobs as of 2014) were predicted to grow faster than average at 11%, between 2014 and 2024. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the job market for exercise physiologists is extremely competitive. However, the demand for exercise physiologists may increase as hospitals realize the importance of preventive care, exercise and rehabilitation for treating chronic diseases and injuries. The Buero of labor statistics also states that the average annual pay for a kinesiotherapist is the same as an exercise physiologist, averaging out at about forty-seven thousand three hundred and forty-seven dollars or twenty-two dollars and fifty cents per hour. The majority of these workers on average, make between thirty-one thousand, five hundred and forty dollars and seventy-three thousand, eight hundred and forty-three dollars annually with a beginner's wage sitting around a mere thirty-one thousand dollars every year. A majority of kenesiotheapist (exercise physiologist)