sports medicine

I want to know who is more qualified to practice sports medicine: a pmr physician or a family practice doctor with a specialty in sports medicine?

Depends if you want to concentrate on the primary care of athletes across the lifespan (FP) or are more interested in a specialist approach to rehabilitation of sports injuries (PM&R). I do know that there is a perceived bias among specialists in terms of referring patients to FP-SM. Orthopods and neurologists don't like to "refer down the food chain." They would rather work with physiatrists whose training they perceive as being on true "specialist" level.

Thanks for the reply