When and where can GPs refer patients with suspected overuse injuries?
Suspected overuse injuries, especially in exercising individuals, with failure of basic treatment can be referred to sports and exercise medicine specialists. Unfortunately, there is a current paucity of them on the NHS. But this is set to change as structured specialist training has already begun on the NHS this year to rectify this problem. There are, however, sports physicians practising privately in the UK, and they can be contacted through the British Association of Sports and Exercise Medicine (BASEM) Anthony Annan is a GP in Essex and a sports and exercise medicine physician.
