Dr. Matthew D. Marsh is a Sports Medicine Family Doctor in Brooksville, FL with specialized training and skills in preventing and treating illness and injury in children and adults who lead physically active lifestyles. As a sports medicine family doctor, Matthew D. Marsh, MD performs pain and mobility assessment, treatment plan development, and mobility restoration treatment.

Family sports medicine is a medical specialty that focuses on the treatment of illness and injury in children and adults who participate in physically active lifestyles, occupations, or athletics. Important diseases and conditions treated by sports medicine family doctors include chronic joint and back pain, muscle sprains, nerve damage or dysfunction, hamstring injuries, torn ACLs, herniated spinal discs, knee injuries, and those resulting from athletics.

Includes physical injuries. Medical tests, procedures, and treatments provided by Sports Medicine Family Doctors include MRI, X-ray, and CT scan imaging, corticosteroid pain injection, prescribing medication, nerve pain block injection, mobility assessment, medical massage, acupuncture, physical therapy rehabilitation. , and referrals to other specialists as needed.

A family medicine doctor is trained to be responsible for ongoing care in the field of sports medicine, not only for the enhancement of health and fitness but also for injury and disease prevention.

A sports medicine physician must have knowledge and experience in health promotion and injury prevention. Knowledge about specialized areas of medicine such as exercise physiology, biomechanics, nutrition, psychology, physical rehabilitation, epidemiology, physical assessment, injuries (treatment and prevention and referral exercises), and the role of exercise in promoting a healthy lifestyle required for practice. of sports medicine.

Sports medicine physicians need special education to provide knowledge to improve the health care of a person engaged in physical exercise (sports), whether as an individual or in team participation.