Meryl Wheeler goes by the name of “non-physician expert” and she explains that after an injury a patient books online, sees an athletic therapist especially trained for this setting, before closing with a sports physician consultation. Patients who needed a surgeon got an operation 5 months earlier in this system than in Canada’s regular publicly funded one. Food for thought?
Link: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/calgary-knee-clinic-delivers-quicker-cheaper-elite-level-care/article4180511/
The Canadian Academy of Sport & Exercise Medicine is a BJSM member society - casem-acmse.org/
