Therapeutic agents in musculoskeletal injuries.

is highly motivated to achieve excellence in his particular sport,-hence his mental attitude is good and he is generally cooperative. He, or she, does not require much urging to participate in preventive or therapeutic measures advised by the physician. Understandably, treatment of athletes for immediate injuries or during longer periods of rehabilitation takes a different pattern than that of the patient regularly seen by a physician in general practice. The great desire of an injured athlete to return to competition is an inducement to the therapist for he can count on a large degree of cooperation in the relatively slow process of rehabilitation. Here progress may be steady but not as readily apparent to a patient as recovery from an infection. As a rule the physician treating athletes is concerned largely with traumatic injuries centered on the musculoskeletal system and less frequently, injuries to internal organs. Such considerations as outlined above will