At St. Luke’s International Hospital Center for Integrated Sports Medicine, we examine and treat athletes of all ages and levels, from pure sports lovers to professional players.

Sports have various roles in our lives. By helping to maintain our health, enhancing our physical strength, giving us joy and a purpose, sports fulfill us emotionally and help prevent the onset of lifestyle-related diseases.

As sports have become popular and various sports are performed around the world, they are no longer a special pastime intended only to gain skills in a specific type of sport, or to participate in international competitions, limited only to a certain group of young people, but all citizens including young children and elderly people now actively participate in sports.

Despite these positive roles on the one hand, sporting activities are also associated with injuries and diseases that not only prevent continued participation in sport, but also inhibits enjoyment of the fun and refreshing excitement that lies at the heart of all sports. The sustained injuries and inabilities depend on the kind of sport and the level of competitiveness, and professional medical care is needed to select the optimal examination and treatment methods case by case. Even though there may only be one injury, its treatment may sometimes involve cooperation by various departments and divisions.

To quickly and smoothly reach an accurate diagnosis and provide the best treatment, it is necessary for the concerned departments and divisions to close work together on a daily basis. Teams consisting of professionals from various clinical and affiliated health departments are formed at this Center and aim not only to treat the obvious wound, injury or disease, but to simultaneously take a comprehensive approach keeping the wish to return to sports foremost in mind.

Please contact this Center if you are bothered by sports-related injury, disability or disease, if you have to make a tough choice about having surgery or other treatment, or when symptoms of unknown cause prevent active participation in sports, and any other similar instances. The latest medical technology will be applied to make an accurate diagnosis and provide the most appropriate treatment to each patient with a view on return to or continuance of sporting activities.

KITAMURA Nobuto,
Director, Center for Integrated Sports Medicine