Sports Medicine

Department of Sports Medicine

Sports medicine; increasing participation in physical activity in order to protect and improve the health of individuals in the society, making health assessments of individuals of all genders and ages, healthy or with chronic diseases, regardless of their level, making a program about participation in sports and physical activity, and application of exercise prescriptions, It is a clinical specialty that conducts theoretical and practical studies on the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of health and injury, the evaluation of the medical aspects of athlete performance, and the struggle against doping.

Süleyman Demirel University Faculty of Medicine is one of the 8 (eight) institutions that have the authority to provide specialty training in sports medicine in our country. The time required for our research assistants who receive specialization training in sports medicine to complete their specialization training in medicine is at least 4 years. There are 2 (two) academic staffs and 6 (six) research assistants in our Sports Medicine Department.

Provided Services

In our Sports Medicine Department, polyclinic and treatment unit services are provided.

 

Polyclinic Services

• Health screening is done for individuals of all ages who want to start/continue sports and regular exercise.

• Pre-season license examinations are carried out and license visas are issued for athletes competing in all sports branches.

• Individuals who want to protect and improve their health or who have a chronic disease ( obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, etc.) are prescribed and followed-up individual exercises for whom exercise is recommended.

• For individuals who want to reach a healthy body weight and fat ratio, anthropometric values such as body weight, body fat mass ratio, lean body weight and skinfold thickness can be determined, and personalized exercise programs can be suggested.

• All sports injuries such as bone, joint, cartilage, muscle, tendon, ligament, meniscus injury, ankle sprain can be diagnosed. In sports injuries, diagnostic and therapeutic interventional procedures can be applied. The treatment of sports injuries is carried out in the treatment unit of our department.

• With Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy (ESWT) diseases such as tennis elbow, golfer's elbow, Achilles tendonitis, patellar tendinitis, calcific tendinitis, and heel spurs can be treated.

 

Treatment Unit Services

In our outpatient treatment unit, where we carry out the non-surgical (conservative) treatment of sports injuries, pre- and post-surgical treatment processes under the supervision of a physician and physiotherapist;

• Electrotherapy, ultrasound, laser, vacuum, hot-cold application, intermittent treatment modalities such as pneumatic compression, exercise tires of different resistances, dumbbells and sandbags of different weights, balance boards, trampoline, treadmill, vertical cycle ergometry, rowing ergometry, strength exercises for different muscle groups can be used.

• In our unit where individual and team performances can be evaluated; sports performance tests such as aerobic and anaerobic capacity measurement, agility tests, flexibility assessment, balance tests, muscle strength measurement with isokinetic dynamometer, speed and power tests, jump tests can be performed.

 

 

 

 

 

Contact: +90 246 211 9177