Sports Medicine is a medical field that specializes with physical fitness, treatment and prevention of injuries related to sports and exercise. It was introduced around the early Greek and Roman era when the first modern Olympic Games took place. The Greek felt they could do something to help heal and prevent injuries that the athletes were receiving. Now in sports medicine, certain injuries can only be assessed and treated by specific physicians. These physicians can include physical therapists, athletic trainers, and strength and conditioning coaches. Although sports physicians are most commonly seen by athletes after they are hurt so they can be treated, there are some physicians that are seen before an injury occurs so that they can learn how to prevent injuries.
In ancient Greece and ancient Rome, Herodicus first combined sports with health. He is the reason that people realized that exercise and a good diet help better our health. With these realizations, sports training and athletic competitions became very popular and led to the first Olympic Games that took place in Athens, Greece in 1896. These competitions made coaches and fans realize how important and needed it was to stretch and warm up before training events. They wanted to find ways to prevent injuries and also treat them immediately when they occurred during events. The phrase sports medicine was not thought of until the 1928 Olympics in Switzerland which was where the First International Congress of Sports Medicine had their first meeting and became an organization. The First International Congress of Sports Medicine is an international board that is associated with all five continents and promotes research to help optimize health, strength, nutrition, and perfo...
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... and motivation to prepare athletes for competitive events and gain strength to get back to competing. Many times, they will conduct training camps, skill improvement courses, clinics, preseason workouts and tryouts, and training programs based on teams and individuals in specific sports.
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Due to the increase of popularity of the interscholastic athletic activities on the past few years, several researches process, recommendation, and manuals have been developed by diverse organizations such as the American college of sports medicine, and the national athletic trainer association. These organizations and their members have been working extensively to develop awareness over the importance of providing high quality medical service which can improve the medical outcome of the patient. At the same time, these organization developed regulations to standardize the medical service offered by the sport medicine team; especially by athletic trainers.
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Imagine going up for the perfect lay-up, you make the shot but when you land you twist awkwardly and land on your knee. Laying on the ground, you feel the pain surging through your knee, the first line of defense is an athletic trainer, however if this accident happened when you fell on a wet kitchen floor you could expect much the same care from a physical therapist Athletic Trainers are the first to respond to sport related in game injuries, and provide care after injuries. In contrast physical therapist are not only there to fix accidental injuries, and treat chronic bone and joint they help with plans of care and rehabilitation for athletes and non-athletes after injuries. Physical Therapy play a important role in todays healthcare. Physical Therapy are experts of improving and storing motion , they contribute to their patients ‘ quality of life by keeping them healthy , fit , active and in medications . The first school of Modern Physical Therapy opened in Boston, MA , So Physical Therapy have been around for a long time. The Physical Therapy Association Organized by Mary McMillan. It later became the American Physical Therapy Association.World War ll brings changes to Physical Therapy was done at hospitals as patients recovered from injuries , surgeries or other ailments.
As with any sport, injuries occur quite frequently in the NBA. How these injuries are handled varies by team. Sometimes it is all about how serious it is and if it can get worse through playing through it. A lot of it is determined by how the player feels and how much the organization really wants and needs them on the court. Like if the team really needs a win or even just won’t accept the player to not play due to the crowd expecting them. Then if the player doesn't feel comfortable enough to play, like Andrew Bynum last year with his knee. Are injuries and recoveries ever truly handled appropriately by the players and the organizations? Circumstances determine whether or not injuries and recoveries are handled appropriately in the NBA.
The number of girls and women participating in all levels of sports has risen greatly in recent years, and the way they play has changed too. Women's sports used to be played by a slow defensive style. Today, the sports are played with speed, precision, and power. With these changes have come increased injuries, and female athletes have higher injury rates than men in many sports. Knee injuries have been rising in female sports. Anterior crutiate ligament (ACL) injuries have become the most common injury in the knee to female athletes. Females are four times more susceptible to injury then men.
Sports medicine involves athletes who are constantly training to be in the best physical shape they can be in. It involves athletes with rehabilitation and supplements that they can take to help either recover faster or to help them perform better on their playing field. A lot of high caliber athletes such as olympians are involved in sports medicine, because it is able to get you back into your sport, faster and with less likelihood of re-injury. Many doctors have extensive trauma experience and are able in most cases to help restore normal function as well as give pain relief. The most important aspect of treating trauma is the technology to help prevent the injury from becoming a permanent or recurring problem. The purpose of a sports medicine center is to be able to provide all the necessary treatments un...
Athletic Training plays a big role in the world today. Many people are on the go whether it is for sports or every day activities. Athletic Trainers can help with athletes of any age or industrial workers performing physical tasks or even an average citizen in recreational athletics. They help prevent injuries and help recognize injuries and treat them. They also help rehabilitate injuries that result from physical activity (Athletic Training Association). They are usually first on the scene of an injury (Campus Explorer). Athletic Trainers are health care professionals that work along the side of certified physicians. They also work for other health care professionals, coaches, or parents (Athletic Training Association). While working full time for a sports team, they are faced with tough decisions that could affect the players’ health or career. They must also be able to make fast decisions under pressure. A trainer working for a team can advance their job by switching teams or even becoming an Athletic Training director (Campus Explorer). Athletic Trainers are certified in prevention, clinical evaluation and diagnosis, immediate care, treatment, rehab and reconditioning, organization and administration and professional responsibility (Athletic Training Association). They help athletes prepare for practices, competit...
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Why is Sport Medicine Important? Sports medicine is important to schools, trainers, coaches and most of all it should be important to anyone who is an athlete. That includes any athlete no matter their skill level; it could be a beginner or a professional. Sports injuries can happen to anyone, but getting injured is not fun and some of these injuries can affect your life for a short or long term period. Sports injuries need to be treated appropriately because they cause a great deal of damage to your body. This can ruin your sports chances later on in life, not to mention that it can also lower your quality of life. If an athlete gets injured, they should get help from someone who is specialized in sports injuries so t...
To achieve a degree in Athletic Training, there are many tasks and skills to be learned. The Education Council under the National Athletic Training Association put together an education program filled with a set of guidelines of what has to be taught to graduate with a degree in Athletic Training. Before you can learn and understand Athletic Training, you must know the Anatomy and Physiology of the human body. This includes bones, muscles, levels of organization, tissue levels, systems of the body, skeletal structure, articulations, integrative functions, sensory function, blood, and embryology (Martini, 2001). Besides Anatomy and Physiology, the methods of taping is also extremely critical to this career. Before you can understand what each taping techniques are used for, you must also know about sports injuries. Athletic Training is all about the prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and evaluation of athletic injuries. Another skill that must be learned in the Athletic Training Education Program is how to provide immediate emergency care. That includes everything from background information to actually being able to save an athlete’s or any one else’s life. You must be aware of legal considerations, how and when to approach a victim, the human body systems, examining the victim, basic life support, bleeding and shock, identifying wounds, sudden illnesses, injuries, and how to care for them; also you must be aware of cold and heat related injuries, and how to rescue and move victims (Thygerson, 2001). Other information to be learned includes nutrition, health, and professional development. There are several other topics of Athletic Training; however, there are just to many to s...
Article Summary: This article is to inform athletic directors and coaches on why strength and conditioning program are vital assets to any school athletic program by teaching sports specific lifts as well as proper technique by training enzymatic pathways not muscles.
High school and college athletes who have a history of concussion are 2 to 5.8 times more likely to experience another concussion compared to those who have no prior history of injury . Guskiewics et al. suggest that the increase of risk for another injury was higher during with the initial days after the first concussion. With repetitive exposure to concussions, the symptoms grow stronger each time. Although the symptoms disappear some time after the injury, symptoms can appear years later related to the damage done by the many concussions.
Injuries often happen in sports and playing, and the kids gettin hurt are younger than they should be. Children as yound as seven and eight years old, are getting injuries bad enough for it to affect their futures. Even so, lessening this is possible if you just try.
Injuries occur in all four of the major sports in the U.S. The four major sports here in the U.S are Football, Baseball, Basketball, and Hockey. Injuries are something that are supposed to happen here and there but in Football it has become a very common thing. The National Football League is looked upon a big audience which includes kids and adults. According to the NFL, there is an average of 6 injuries per game dating back to 2014. Injuries vary from Concussions, ACL tears to MCL tears. For the most part concussions is the most common injury in football. This worries many parents because their son maybe interested in joining their local football league but because the rate of injuries that they witness on Television it may worry the parents.