Sports Medicine Clinics Editing and Proofreading Services

A physiotherapist writes to a coach: the athlete may return to full participation, monitoring symptoms and progressing as tolerated. The coach reads this on a Thursday with a squad session starting in eleven minutes. Full participation means what, exactly — contact? Jumping? Two sessions in a day? The letter has transferred a clinical decision to somebody with no clinical training and eleven minutes.

We edit what sports medicine and rehabilitation clinics produce — clearance and discharge letters to coaches and clubs, staged return-to-training documentation, referral and imaging request letters, athlete-facing rehabilitation information, insurance and funding reports, medical room protocols for clubs, screening and pre-participation documentation, and the correspondence that manages a disagreement between a club and a clinician. Our editors work on letters read by people who are not clinicians.

The clearance letter to a coach is where clinical judgement either survives contact with a training pitch or does not, and its failure is advice written in clinical language for a non-clinical reader. A coach cannot act on "as tolerated". We work through these so the permission is expressed in the coach's own units — sessions, minutes, drills, loads, contact or no contact — since a coach schedules in these and translating from clinical prose is not their job; so what is prohibited is listed as specific activities rather than as a caution, because a restriction the coach cannot picture is one they will breach without noticing; so the progression is written as stages with what has to happen before each, given that a letter granting full clearance in one step is either premature or is describing the end of a process the coach never saw; so the observable signs that should stop the session are named in plain terms, as this is the only monitoring a coach can actually do; so the review point is fixed with a date and who decides, since an athlete drifting back to full training without a decision is the commonest route to a re-injury; so anything the athlete has been told is stated so that the two accounts match, because an athlete who has heard something different will negotiate; so the clinician's contact and availability is given for the Thursday-afternoon question; and so the letter says what it is not authorising. Letters written this way keep athletes available.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including clinical correspondence, athlete information and club documents. We are editors rather than clinicians, and we offer no clinical advice and no view on diagnosis, rehabilitation, clearance or any athlete's fitness. What we can do is make the letter usable by the person who has to act on it.