Physicians working in the world of competitive sports face unique ethical challenges, many
of which center around conflicts of interest. Team-employed physicians have obligations to …

The ethics of sports medicine is an important emerging area within biomedical ethics. The
professionalization of medical support services in sport and continuing debates around issues …

… In their article “Sports Medicine and Ethics” Testoni and colleagues (2013) essentially …
Although guidelines do not always prescribe or proscribe medical behaviours, deviation from the “…

… This is considerably challenging due to the complexity surrounding sports medicine and
ethics. Despite developing scientific evidence regarding management of specific …

It is often claimed that the ethical challenges of sports medicine are unique. 1–4 Although
claims to uniqueness may be overstated, 5 the peculiarity of sports medicine is clearly shown …

The relationship between sport, medicine and health in our society is becoming increasingly
complex. This important and timely study explores this relationship through an analysis of …

… ACSM’S Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription, 9th edn. ACSM 2013. … Sports
Medicine, ACSM’s Guideline for Exercise Testing and Prescription, Pescatello, LS (ed.), 9th edn., …

… The nature and intensity of the injury to an athlete may be different from commoner injury;
therefore, the medicines required in Sports are quite different from other injury medicines. As …

… Physicians can be held liable if they prescribe medication to allow early re-entry to competition
while the athlete is still in recovery, if the medication is designated as a prohibited PES.…

This paper explores the ways in which the environment of elite-level and, in particular,
commercial sport produces expectations and pressures on sports doctors that may compromise …