Caring for the Professional Basketball Athlete: A Conceptual Framework

Abstract

The field of sports medicine has experienced a tremendous amount of growth that is evident by the expansion of degree options, as well as types of clinicians being employed in the professional basketball setting [8,9]. The early beginnings of sports medicine saw the mainstay of the team consisting of one physician and one athletic trainer. The role of the physician was to function as the leader of the team while the athletic trainer