Nairobi, May 22 -- Sports medicine is critical in fighting the doping menace in Kenya. Dr Lutomia Mark Lumbasi is a sports medicine physician and vice chairman of East African Arthroscopy Association, a group of surgeons interested in video scope-assisted joint surgery, and a lecturer at the department of surgery at Egerton University's School of Medicine. He spoke to our writer Francis Mureithi on the challenges sports physicians face in the era of increased doping in sport:
Q: What does a sports physician treat?
A: Acute injuries such as ankle sprains, joint injuries, dislocations and non-surgical fractures, overuse injuries including stress fractures, tendonitis, general trauma, head, chest, abdomen, ligaments.
Q: As sports medicine d...