Sports Medicine 2026 has a new website.

Registration is open!

For information and to register, please go to: 

learn.hms.harvard.edu/sportsmedicine

Sports Medicine 2026 is a live online CME course, using live streaming, electronic Q&A, and other remote learning technologies. 

Overview

In the past year, there have been a number of very significant clinical changes that affect the way we diagnose, treat, and rehabilitate sports injuries incurred by elite athletes, weekend warriors, and patients with active lifestyles.

This comprehensive update provides education for state-of-the-art approaches to the diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, and prevention of sports injuries. The course creates a unique opportunity to hear about these changes directly from world-renowned physician-specialists (physiatrists, orthopedists, radiologists); team physicians and athletic trainers for the Boston Red Sox, New England Revolution, and New England Patriots; and physical therapists on the cutting edge of rehabilitation.

Education is practical, coupling updates with guidance on how to incorporate knowledge into practice to improve:

• Treatment outcomes for acute and overuse injuries of the spine, knee, hip, foot, and ankle, along with upper extremity conditions of the shoulder, neck, elbow, hand, and wrist
• The effectiveness and expediency of physical evaluations
• Appropriate diagnostic imaging and interpretation
• Rehabilitation and safe return to play
• Non-surgical management of injuries
• Decisions when to refer patients for surgery
• Multidisciplinary team-based treatment with physicians, physical therapists, and athletic trainers
• Injury prevention
• Regenerative medicine and minimally invasive techniques for the management of injuries
• Treatment of athlete populations, including those who participate in baseball, cycling, crew, dance, and Para sports

The format is engaging, and attendees are encouraged to pose questions in sessions as well as one-on-one with the national and international experts who will be delivering the updates and education at this event.

Reasons to Attend

Unique to this program is its immersive, fast-paced, 360-degree educational experience. You will learn about changes and advances in sports medicine from three critical, interrelated perspectives:

• Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
• Musculoskeletal Radiology
• Orthopedics

Educational highlights include:

• The most effective methods, both surgically and non-surgically, to manage injuries to tendons, joints, muscles, and ligaments in athletes and differences in approach for less active populations
• Updates on shockwave, platelet-rich plasma and ultrasound-guided procedures
• Advances in evaluation and treatment of ankle injuries
• Pain management for in-season athletes
• Strategies to optimize diagnosis and treatment of elbow injuries in throwing sports and Para athletes
• Updates in neurorehabilitation, including sports dystonia, concussion management, and vestibulo-ocular rehabilitation
• Optimizing the management of meniscus injuries
• Guidance for point-of-care ultrasound for evaluation and treatment of sports injuries in the clinic and during sideline coverage
• Optimized approaches for interpreting images and making decisions about operative vs. conservative management
• Clinical strategies to account for age, gender, and patient conditions, along with accounting for athlete perspective to optimize care
• Comprehensive evaluation and management of fatigue in the athlete 

Optimized for Remote Education

The 2026 program has been enhanced for distance learning. In addition to being live streamed, all sessions will be recorded and made available to participants for online viewing for 90 days after the end of the course.