As a 3rd year Sports Rehabilitation student i disagree with this comment that a sports rehabilitatior lacks knowlege of anatomy, one of my close friends is a 3rd year Physio student her course spends 3 months learning musculoskeletal injuries where as Sports rehab spend 3 years learning this.
A Sports Rehabiliator not only prescribes exercises for rehabilitation, we diagnose, treat and rehabilitate.
in December 2007 my fellow students and i attended the a orthopedics course in which there was mainly phyisos and junior doctors, the lack of knowlege of the physios in imusculskeletal diagnosis was not to be disrespectful, but shocking.
i think it is unfair to compare the professions as the only overlap they have is the musculskeletal injury management. i believe anyone who saw us at work would agree that we are just as competant as a sports specific physiotherapist.