Sports Medicine 2025 -LIVE STREAMING

The Comprehensive 2025 Sports Medicine Update

State-of-the-Art Approaches to the Diagnosis, Treatment, Rehabilitation, and Prevention of Sports Injuries

This Harvard Medical School CME program, which is among the highest-rated HMS CME courses, provides a special and timely opportunity to hear directly from world-renowned physician specialists (physiatrists, orthopedists, radiologists), team physicians and athletic trainers for the Boston Red Sox, New England Revolution, and New England Patriots, and physical therapists on the cutting edge of rehabilitation. They will provide education on the most significant recent clinical changes that affect the diagnoses, treatment, and rehabilitation of sports injuries, and how to incorporate them into practice to improve:
• Treatment outcomes for acute and overuse injuries of the spine, knee, hip, foot, and ankle, along with upper extremity conditions of the shoulder, neck, elbow, hand, and wrist
• The effectiveness and expediency of physical evaluations
• Appropriate diagnostic imaging and interpretation
• Rehabilitation and safe return to play
• Non-surgical management of injuries
• Decisions to refer patients for surgery
• Multidisciplinary team-based treatment with physicians, physical therapists, and athletic trainers
• Injury prevention
• Regenerative medicine techniques for the management of injuries
• Treatment of athlete populations, including those who participate in CrossFit, running, lacrosse, mixed martial arts, and wilderness sports

Reasons to Attend

Unique to this program is its immersive, fast-paced, 360-degree educational experience. You will learn about changes and advances in sports medicine from three critical, interrelated perspectives:
• Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
• Musculoskeletal Radiology
• Orthopedics

Educational highlights include:
• The most effective methods, both surgically and non-surgically, to manage injuries to tendons, joints, muscles, and ligaments in athletes and differences in approach for less active populations
• When and how to utilize cutting-edge regenerative sports medicine treatments
• Advances in evaluation and treatment of shoulder conditions, highlighting considerations for management of rotator cuff injuries
• Accounting for sex differences in risk factors and optimal management of sports medicine conditions
• Strategies to optimize diagnosis and treatment of elbow injuries, including ulnar collateral ligament sprains
• Updates in head and neck trauma, including concussion management
• Optimizing joint function following ACL injury, including cutting-edge strategies on cartilage preservation, imaging, advanced rehabilitation, and injury prevention
• Guidance for point-of-care ultrasound for evaluation and treatment of sports injuries in the clinic and during sideline coverage
• Optimized approaches for interpreting images and making decisions about operative vs. conservative management
• Clinical strategies to account for age, gender, and patient conditions, along with accounting for athlete perspective to optimize care
• Strategies to optimize health of Para sport athletes

Optimized for Remote Education
The 2025 program has been enhanced for distance learning. In addition to being live streamed, all sessions will be recorded and made available to participants for online viewing for 90 days after the end of the course.