If you are a person who uses the bicycle as a transport vehicle, or likes to do cycling as a hobby and amateur sport on the weekends, there is a possibility that one day it will fall and the clavicle is fractured which is the most common injury in the cyclists. You will go to the trauma doctor who will tell you that you should wear a bandage on 8 or a sling specially designed for that type of problem and that you will use it for two months. Time in which it takes the bone to weld. But if you are a professional cyclist, compete defending the colors of a team that pays you for doing so, then things change. The Sports Doctor will immediately put it in the operating room and put a nail that fixes the bone segments. A few days of rest and to continue competing. Most likely, the athlete will never be informed that with this, bone welding will not be the best and that his clavicle will be fragile. That is the least, the important thing is that you return to compete soon because for that you get paid and the time you are without rolling on the track is lost money. In football we have all seen how the player receives a kick, falls in pain gestures, the field is removed and the doctor in charge applies an anesthetic nebulizer or applies an ice pack. As soon as the pain deflates or subsides, he goes back to the field because it is very valuable. In the 1970 World Cup in Mexico, the German Franz Beckenbauer played with his arm in a sling because he had a broken collarbone. In 2011 the youth Julio Gómez received a blow to the head that caused an injury. He put on a bandage and continued playing, scored a goal and was the hero of the game. He went to professionalism and never stood out for his many injuries. Since 1928 Dr. Harrison Martland described in the boxers the “Punch Drunk Syndome” which is the evil of drunkenness by blows. After studying several retired boxers who ended up with serious brain injuries and that as is well known continue to date. Not counting those who have lost their lives in the ring, or shortly after the fight. By the year 2000, the American-Nigerian neurosurgeon Bennet Omalu studied the serious behavior disorders in professional football players and described the “Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy”, demonstrated by magnetic resonance studies. The doctor was harshly criticized and disqualified by large sports consortiums because it was against one of the businesses that produces the greatest stratospheric profits in a professional sport. The interviewed patients discovered a whole structure of unethical management of players with injections of anabolics, steroids, opioid analgesics and many other substances, which injure the organism but for now allow the player to return to the court and continue receiving blows. The helmets and other protections of this sport have been modified allegedly to protect them, but what has been achieved is that they hit harder, because they do not feel so much the impact. And all this has been indicated by sports doctors. Also the well-known “doping” in Olympic athletics that make them lose medals to competitors, are always prescribed by doctors. An athlete does not know what substance to inject or ingest, it is always the doctor of the association or club who indicates it. Of course, in professional sports, doping and evaluations do not work. In professionalism everything goes. That is why the use of stimulants and excitatory drugs, perhaps they are not precisely indicated by doctors, but they are tolerated. Ethical, responsible and dignified Sports Medicine, as they should all be, is the one practiced in non-professional sports clubs and in private schools or gyms. Good for amateur sports, trainers and doctors responsible and careful of health and life.
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