I totally agree with the premise of the article. Having superficially investigated some controversial sports medicine treatments, such as platelet-rich plasma injections (only recently removed from the prohibited substance list), which mainly have an anecdotal evidence base; it seems much of the practice is, in fact, not evidence based. The drive of athletes to return from injury faster promotes action and not reaction from physicians; therefore making a RCT very difficult as few would be prepared to enter through risk of receiving the placebo. However, sports and exercise medicine is a fast-paced field in its infancy and it will be very interesting to see what the Danish Sports Medicine symposium yields.
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I totally agree with the premise of the article. Having superficially investigated some controversial sports medicine treatments, such as platelet-rich plasma injections (only recently removed from the prohibited substance list), which mainly have an anecdotal evidence base; it seems much of the practice is, in fact, not evidence based. The drive of athletes to return from injury faster promotes action and not reaction from physicians; therefore making a RCT very difficult as few would be prepared to enter through risk of receiving the placebo. However, sports and exercise medicine is a fast-paced field in its infancy and it will be very interesting to see what the Danish Sports Medicine symposium yields.
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