While communities around the world make the easy choice of leaving out large sections of their populations from sports, sports medicine practitioners, scientists, and medical doctors in the field of sports science pursue a different choice.

Pioneering work in the areas of neuromuscular disorders, musculoskeletal disorders, bionics, human kinesiology, injury prevention, biochemistry, and orthopedics have been re-writing the above statistics, and equalizing the starting line.

Overcoming Obstacles details why we should be optimistic of a future world where athletic excellence and peak sports performance are a life choice you choose to make and not necessarily a gift you have to be born with!