Comprehensive Study of Sports Medicine
Contents: 1. Introduction to sports medicine. 2. Training in sports medicine. 3. Sports and exercise physiology. 4. Nutrition for sports--a comprehensive study. 5. Muscles and muscle management. 6. Sports injuries. 7. Medical care of the athletes. 8. Drugs and tobacco. 9. Energy systems of the body. 10. Emergency procedures in sports. 11. General medicinal problems among athletes. 12. Measurement and evaluation of sports performance. 13. General infections affecting athletes.
Sports medicine is concerned with the care and potential performance of the players. It requires a comprehensive approach. Credit of establishing principles of care was given to Herodicus of Selymbria at the time of Socrates and Claudius Galen in 131 AD. They emphasized training, diet, massage and a medical approach to athletics. Galen\'s contribution to scientific medicine as monumental. He placed the clinical instructions of Hippocrates on a sound experimental, basis, for fifteen hundred years, his works dominated medical knowledge. He was a true sports medicine practitioner, because of which sometimes he is called as father of sports medicine. Today, sports medicine has evolved into a respected discipline with dedicated associations, colleges, institute and literature in most countries. (jacket)
Sports medicine is concerned with the care and potential performance of the players. It requires a comprehensive approach. Credit of establishing principles of care was given to Herodicus of Selymbria at the time of Socrates and Claudius Galen in 131 AD. They emphasized training, diet, massage and a medical approach to athletics. Galen\'s contribution to scientific medicine as monumental. He placed the clinical instructions of Hippocrates on a sound experimental, basis, for fifteen hundred years, his works dominated medical knowledge. He was a true sports medicine practitioner, because of which sometimes he is called as father of sports medicine. Today, sports medicine has evolved into a respected discipline with dedicated associations, colleges, institute and literature in most countries. (jacket)
