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For Medical Professionals

Research

The Orthopedic & Sports Health Research Division of MedStar SportsHealth is a newly formed collaborative effort of MedStar SportsHealth and the MedStar Research Institute. Our purpose is to enhance patient outcomes and improve sports safety by performing innovative research in orthopedics and sports medicine.

Collectively, we develop and submit research protocols in the areas of orthopedics and sports medicine. Our highly trained professional staff conducts clinical research in the areas of injury prevention and control, injury epidemiology, biomechanics, rehabilitation and kinesiology for the purpose of improving physical performance, reducing the risk of injury in sports/exercise, clinical drug trials and sports equipment evaluation.

Learn more about our current research efforts.

Medical Guidelines

A medical guideline (also referred to as a clinical guideline, or a clinical protocol) can be defined as a document with the intent of helping to guide decisions and identify criteria regarding diagnosis, management, and treatment of a specific medical condition. Medical guidelines are often based on an examination of current evidence within the paradigm of evidence-based medicine.

Additional objectives of medical guidelines are:

to help standardize medical care,
to raise the quality of care provided, and
to reduce risk (particularly to the patient & the health care provider)

It has been widely accepted that the use of guidelines by health care providers is an effective way of achieving these objectives. The clinical guidelines provided in this section briefly identify, summarize and evaluate the best evidence and most current data concerning the prevention, diagnosis, prognosis and therapy for the condition described.