Sports Medicine (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation) Physician
1,661 active US providers register Sports Medicine (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation) Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.02% of every provider in the registry, and the 318th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 2081S0010X
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
- Specialization
- Sports Medicine
- Active providers
- 1,661
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
A physician who specializes in Sports Medicine is responsible for continuous care related to the enhancement of health and fitness as well as the prevention of injury and illness. The specialist possesses knowledge and experience in the promotion of wellness and the prevention of injury from many areas of medicine such as exercise physiology, biomechanics, nutrition, psychology, physical rehabilitation, epidemiology, physical evaluation and injuries. It is the goal of a Sports Medicine specialist to improve the healthcare of the individual engaged in physical exercise.
Definition quoted verbatim from the NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set, version 25.1. Not paraphrased.
Where they are
Counted by practice location, not by mailing address or by licence state. A provider practising across a state line is counted where they practise.
| State | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| California | 179 | |
| New York | 160 | |
| Florida | 138 | |
| Texas | 115 | |
| New Jersey | 68 | |
| Pennsylvania | 63 | |
| Arizona | 60 | |
| Washington | 52 | |
| Georgia | 48 | |
| Ohio | 47 | |
| Illinois | 46 | |
| North Carolina | 44 | |
| Massachusetts | 44 | |
| Maryland | 40 | |
| Colorado | 39 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
1,293 of these are people and 368 are organisations, so 22% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2017, and 460 registered in the last five years, 28% of the current population.
That is close to the pace of the registry as a whole.
Where the practices are
By practice-location city. City counts are noisier than state counts, because a large employer files one address for many providers.
- NEW YORK, NY63
- PHOENIX, AZ21
- SEATTLE, WA20
- CHICAGO, IL19
- HOUSTON, TX18
- SACRAMENTO, CA15
- SAN DIEGO, CA12
- SAN FRANCISCO, CA11
- BROOKLYN, NY11
- BRONX, NY11
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Sports Medicine (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation) Physician most often carry these secondary taxonomies as well. This is the closest thing the registry has to a map of which specialties overlap in practice, and it is not published anywhere else.
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation.
- Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine Physician524
- Spinal Cord Injury Medicine Physician277
- Neuromuscular Medicine (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation) Physician276
- Pain Medicine (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation) Physician3,674
- Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Physician22,389
Looking up a specific provider
These counts come from the monthly NPPES file. To check one provider, use their NPI: the lookup reads the live registry and shows whether the identifier is still active, which the monthly file cannot tell you about the last few weeks.
Counts from npidata_pfile_20050523-20260712.csv, built 2026-08-09. Primary taxonomy only, deactivated identifiers excluded.