Journal Writing

- Writing for a Sports Medicine Journal -

As a sports medicine doctor, I am responsible for the health and care of the 60 athletes on the Pittsburgh Steelers professional football team. One of my biggest areas of concern is the processes that some athletes use to tolerate a higher degree of pain than other athletes who do not cope with pain as well at a similar degree. I intend to write these findings for a journal known as The Physician and Sports Medicine. The following article on pain tolerance and athletes will be written in the format required by The Physician and Sports Medicine journal. The style is known as the American Psychiatric Association (APA) style and will include a title; abstract; sections headings; text; and references as required by this style:

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PAIN TOLERANCE: MYTHS & REALITIES IN ADULT & YOUTH ATHLETES

The decision to allow and athlete to play football with pain and injury involves a plethora of medical and ethical questions. This is even more true when the athletes are young children. This discussion will focus on the issues that should be considered when a physician must when to tell an athlete it is time to quite playing professional sports. Also included will be the special considerations physicians need to address when interacting with athletes who are young children, since they are at even greater risk for harm

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curs during both athletic activity and routine activities. Pain is brought on by routine activities. (Thornton, 1990: 140) Where the first two pain levels are concerned, an athlete is normally able to continue to play their sport and continue workouts. However, there are two criteria which must be met for this to occur. First, the injury must be of such a nature that it does not raise the chances that an athlete will be further injured. Second, the injury must be of such a nature that the athlete's continuing to play will not create additional deterioration to his condition or injury. Traditional methods of dealing with pain for minor injuries are things like chemical coolants, ice, ultrasound, heat, massage, aspirin or ibuprofen. However, gone are the days when pain-relief would come through drugs and injections so the athlete could tolerate pain. As one sports physician says, "we would never use any drugs that would in any way decrease an athlete's awareness of his or her surroundings�studies show that if you prolong anti-inflammatory measures, you can block the body's healing response. We're really reluctant to allow football players to abuse anti-inflammatory drugs," (Thornton, 1990: 140). Past theory in this area

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