Several studies have examined the provision of medical care in a variety of competitive sport settings. These are important contributions, but the majority of this work has focused on elite sports that tend to have a group of medical health professionals as part of the team, with little attention given to sports that lack access to such services. This lack of dedicated medical support may result in athletes being more likely to engage in ‘team-doctoring’ – a term used to describe athletes seeking medical advice from teammates and coaches. This concept is yet to be theorised and empirically described. In this paper, we begin to define, explore and contextualise the process of team-doctoring in relation to sociocultural interactions, beliefs embedded within the combat sport subculture and the critical role it plays in shaping fighters’ perceptions of health and injury. In so doing, we demonstrate that team-doctoring is the process whereby apparent medical knowledge is (mis)understood, recommended, transferred, interpreted and developed within a somewhat coherent team.

多项研究检查了各种竞技运动环境中的医疗保健。这些都是重要的贡献，但是这项工作的大部分都集中在精英运动上，这些运动倾向于由一组医疗保健专业人员组成团队，而很少关注那些无法获得此类服务的运动。缺乏专门的医疗支持可能会导致运动员更有可能从事“团队医生”活动-这个术语用来形容运动员向队友和教练寻求医疗建议。该概念尚待理论化和经验描述。在本文中，我们开始定义，探索和背景化与社会文化互动相关的团队医生的过程，格斗运动亚文化中蕴含的信念及其在塑造战士对健康和伤害的观念中所起的关键作用。通过这样做，我们证明了团队医生是一个过程，在这个过程中，在一个有点连贯的团队中，（误）理解，推荐，转移，解释和发展了明显的医学知识。