there is ongoing debate at some places that who should be treating sports injuries of hand and wrist. a small section believes that it is a domain of sports medicine subspeciality but majority believes that sports injuries of hand and wrist be treated by hand surgeoans as they are the people who are well versed with anatomy (you rightly guessed anatomy of sports person is same as that of common man) of this region, surgeries in that area and rehablitation protocols after surgeries of these region. in January 2009 issue of journal of bone and joint surgery american it has been clearly mentioned that sports injury of hand and wrist is the domain of hand surgeons and it is dealt by them.