The sport has been around for thousands of years and so has the practice of sports medicine, branch of medicine focuses on the prevention and treatment of injuries related to exercise and sport . Although many professional sports teams have staff years, medical sports medicine and exercise will not become a separate segment of health care until the end of the twentieth century. However, it has been practiced in some way since the beginning of civilization.
The beginnings of Sports Medicine
The method Atharva - Veda practiced by Hindus is the first use of exercise for the treatment of sports injuries . Chinese Kung Fu book , created about 1000 BC, also mentions the physical treatment . It was not until the fifth century BC , we have seen mention of therapeutic exercise in the western world . The practice has been associated with Herodicus , believed to be a teacher of Hippocrates, who is considered the father of medicine . Hippocrates himself also recommends exercise to treat the disease.
The practice becomes an artifact
Coaches, who also served as coaches , became established fixtures in the fifth century BC . The first athletic training manual was written about 444 BC by UCCI Taranto , himself a former champion pentathlon. The Romans continued the practice, the release of several training manuals in the next 700 years . Milo of Croton was certainly one of the most famous coaches of the era and the first year of the progressive resistance recorded , raising a bull on the day he was born , is assigned.
The rivalry between coaches and doctors relegated to the role of treatment until the second century of our era, which emphasized the role of the physician of the first team . Appointed Pontifex Maximus Claudius Galen of Pergamum and Rome as a gladiator Pergamon doctor . Claudio published their treatments and outcomes , and became famous physician of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. When the Roman Empire fell , the additional learning was limited in the western world . The Byzantine Empire and the Islamic culture preserves the heritage of many years.
Dr. Edward Hitchcock sports medicine has brought to the United States where he became the first instructor of physical education and health at Amherst College in 1854. It is considered the first sports medicine doctor and medical equipment in the United States . Other early practitioners include Drs. Edward Nichols , Mal Stevens, and Augustus Thorndike, who published the first comprehensive text on the practice in this country. Today , doctors use cutting-edge treatments and other physical activities of chiropractic health care .
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