How Are Sports Injuries Diagnosed?

The aim of treating sports injuries is to return the athlete to sports with the best possible performance in the shortest time possible without causing the injury to persist or recur. Treatment is primarily divided into conservative and surgical treatments.

Medical and physical therapies are parts of conservative treatment. Regardless of the method used to treat injuries to the musculoskeletal system, the desired outcome is to maintain the player's flexibility and joint range of motion while ensuring that the player can return to sports as soon as possible without decreasing muscle strength or resistance. If surgical treatment can return the athlete to sports in a shorter time or with better performance than conservative treatment, it should be preferred. Advances in surgical techniques in sports traumatology over the past five years can be summarized as chondroplasty, free cartilage transplantation, the easy application of arthroscopy to different joints, and new techniques in meniscal suturing and ligament surgery.