- Writing for a Sports Medicine Journal -
As a sports medicine doctor, I am responsible for the health and care of the 60 athletes on the Pittsburgh Steelers professional football team. One of my biggest areas of concern is the processes that some athletes use to tolerate a higher degree of pain than other athletes who do not cope with pain as well at a similar degree. I intend to write these findings for a journal known as The Physician and Sports Medicine. The following article on pain tolerance and athletes will be written in the format required by The Physician and Sports Medicine journal. The style is known as the American Psychiatric Association (APA) style and will include a title; abstract; sections headings; text; and references as required by this style:
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PAIN TOLERANCE: MYTHS & REALITIES IN ADULT & YOUTH ATHLETES
The decision to allow and athlete to play football with pain and injury involves a plethora of medical and ethical questions. This is even more true when the athletes are young children. This discussion will focus on the issues that should be considered when a physician must when to tell an athlete it is time to quite playing professional sports. Also included will be the special considerations physicians need to address when interacting with athletes who are young children, since they are at even greater risk for harm due to their body’s incomplete and developing nature. A conclusion will address the implications for physicians and coaches who must deal with adult and young athletes.
One of the toughest decisions a physician for a professional or recreational athlete must make is deciding when an injury, or pain level, is such that an athlete must begin tapering off their sports career or quitting the offending sport altogether. Medical advice on this issue in modern professional sports is comprised of many issu...