Sports medicine

Sports medicine includes theoretical and practical medicine. It examines the influence of exercise, training and sports, as well as lack of motion in the healthy and ill people of all ages to make the findings of the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of the sportsmen and useful.

This description of Wildor Hollmann (1958 ) was adopted as the official definition by the World Federation of Sports Medicine ( FIMS ) in 1977 and is in the English version: " Sports medicine embodies theoretical and practical medicine Which examines the influence of exercise, workout and sports, as well the lack of exercise, healthy and unhealthy on people of all ages to produce results did are conclusive to prevention, therapy and rehabilitation as well as beneficial for the athlete himself ".

Characteristics

Unlike most medical specialties, sports medicine has no diagnostic or organ -related, but examines the importance of physical activity for health and performance. The main concern is the study of the effects of physical activity and lack of exercise on the body.

Generally speaking: Sports medicine deals with the medical issues of exercise and sport.

Qualifications

In Germany, " Sports Medicine " as part of a multidisciplinary medical auxiliary training is provided ( additional designation Sports Medicine ). Before the reunification of the two German states existed in the GDR, the Subject sports medicine with the qualifications State recognition as a sports doctor (who have completed appropriate training ) and a specialist in sports medicine (with four years of training time and testing), but this was not continued as field training.

Appropriate qualifications were previously in the USSR ( Tallinn University ) and in Czechoslovakia ( Prague and Bratislava). Similar arrangements have been made in Italy and Norway. Currently, 18 European countries lead a doctor specializing in sports medicine ( specialization ), its launch is planned in other countries. The specialist training takes between 2 and 5 years. Sports Medicine courses or training opportunities ( subspecialisation ) are offered in almost all European countries.

Sport -specific disease images

Typical athlete diseases and injuries are tennis elbow, tennis elbow, runner, jumper and footballer knee, the skier's thumb, the boxer nose, cauliflower ear and fatigue fractures.

The sudden cardiac death in sports will often perceived as a disease caused by athletes. However, the athletic stress triggers cardiac death resulting from heart disease or pre-damage, only from.

Other diseases whose name is often taken from the English language are: athlete 's foot, athlete's nodules, athletic triad, bikini bottom, exercise induced anaphylaxis, jogger 's kidney ( Pseudonephritis athletica ), jogger 's nipples, runners anemia, march hemoglobinuria, mogul skier 's palm, runner's rump, swimmer 's ear, tinea corporis ( gladiatorum ) and turf toe.

Literature and sources

  • H.-H. Dickhuth / F. Mayer / K. Röcker / A. Berg (ed.), sports medicine for physicians. German doctors -Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7691-0472-1. ( Textbook based on the Training System of the German Society for Sports Medicine and Prevention ).
  • H. Deimel / G. Huber / K. Pfeifer / schoolboys K. (Eds.), New ways active in prevention and rehabilitation. German doctors -Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7691-0540-7. ( New aspects of exercise and sports therapy).
  • Sport and Exercise Science: Essays in the History of Sports Medicine ( Sport and Society ), hrg. by Jack W. Berryman and Roberta J. Park, University of Illinois Press, 2000.
  • Hollmann, W.; Tittel, K.: History of German sports medicine, printing house Gera 2008, ISBN 978-3-9811758-2-0.
  • Joseph Keul, Daniel King, Hermann Scharnag: History of Sports Medicine: Freiburg and development in Germany, Heidelberg 1999: Karl F. Haug Fachbuchverlag, ISBN 3-8304-2027-7.
  • Angelika Uhlmann: "Sport is the general practitioner at the bedside of the German people " Wolfgang Kohlrausch (1888-1980) and the history of German sports medicine, Frankfurt am Main 2005: Mabuse Verlag, ISBN 3-938304-13-8.
  • Dr. Marco Prümmer / Yvonne Sagittarius: New ways of Sports Medicine - More power. PRINCE PRINT Print Media GmbH & Co KG, ISBN 978-3-00-033152-7
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