Just a consideration for those thinking about sports medicine. You only have 5 days (10 half days) in a work week. If you want to be good and stay good at something, you want to make sure you are doing it enough to keep it up. This goes for spine procedures, ultrasound-guided procedures, EMG, whatever. If you want to do spine procedures, you will need to likely see neck and low back pain patients in clinic to generate procedures. The more you do of that, the less you do of true sports (essentially all joints outside of the spine). Your practice will become what you see. Great advice I once heard is that if you want to be a sports physician but offer spine procedures, more than likely your practice will fill up more and more with neck and back pain. Just ask yourself if you want to be a sports physician, a spine physician or a pain physician, and then devote your time to what you want to be.