Hospice (Palliative) care patients are those are suffering from a terminal illness. Instead of trying to treat the problem in the hopes that it will go away, the aim of palliative care is to enhance the patients’ quality of life and offer treatments that reduce pain and psychological difficulties. This kind of treatment can begin at any stage in an illness or disease, and it often includes psychiatry and pain and stress-reduction techniques.

Sports medicine is a branch of medicine that works with athletes and others who play sports or take part in physically demanding activities that may result in injury or other overuse-related problems. Therefore, it is closely related to physical therapy. Since athletes can experience certain issues that may be uncommon in the rest of the population, the doctors who specialize in this field have advanced knowledge of the body and issues that may arise from participating in various physical activities.