For example, St. Elizabeth, the Dayton hospital that developed BodyCues, began advertising its sports medicine center in December.

Far more worrying, some tours make painful and expensive diversions to jade factories, gem exhibition halls and Chinese medicine centres.

A sports science and medicine centre is purpose built and is available for use by governing bodies for physiology, sports injury/rehabilitation and physiological testing.

The title could be bestowed to individual medical doctors and nurses but also to health care structures as general hospitals, sanatoriums, maternity wards or preventive medicine centres.

The hospital is the focus of a plan for a national nuclear medicine centre.

Budget tours to the Great Wall with agonising side trips to jade factories and Chinese medicine centres.

He wrote best-selling books, saw patients daily at his alternative medicine center in Manhattan and had a regular radio show.

Despite this, only about 2 percent of sports medicine centers have psychologists available to help patients, Dr. Kaforey said.

Some of its most notable departments are the Cyberknife, reproductive medicine center, stem cell research, and joint replacement center.

It is the first private hospital in Singapore to perform open heart surgery and to establish nuclear medicine centre.