Introduction
Book Title
Translational Sports Medicine
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Editors
Eltorai A, Bakal JA, DeFroda S, Owens BDdddd
Description
Imagine a multitrack train system, each track with its own train heading toward the same destination. Each train has a train engineer who has a different educational background and has a vague idea that if they follow the track they are on, they will reach their destination. Because of their different educational backgrounds, the train engineers have better knowledge of certain parts of the journey and not so much on other parts. Each train has different baggage, engines, conductors, and different kinds of resources on board all with similar qualities. However, none of the train engineers know that each train is heading toward the same location. Each train represents different background groups of people with diverse skills biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering, medicine, and public health. Translational medicine is the multistep process of bringing all these unique backgrounds into a more streamlined process in the form of diagnostics, medical procedures, devices, and behavioral changes.
First Page
3
Last Page
4
ISBN
9780323912594
Publication Date
2023
Publisher
Academic Press
City
Cambridge, MA
Disciplines
Orthopedics | Sports Medicine | Surgery
Recommended Citation
Chang J, Guettler J. Introduction. In: Eltorai A, Bakal JA, DeFroda S, Owens BD, editors. Translational sports medicine. Cambridge (MA): Academic Press; 2023. p. 3-4. doi:10.1016/B978-0-323-91259-4.00030-8. (Handbook for Designing and Conducting Clinical and Translational Research).
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