sport medicine

Sport science and medicine in tennis.

T ennis is one of the major global sports, with over 75 million participants worldwide. Many more follow the Grand Slams, Davis Cup and Fed Cup events, overseen by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and the professional tours, governed and managed by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) and the Sony Ericsson WTA (Women’s Tennis Association) Tour. The ITF is the world governing b...

What is sport and exercise medicine?

Sport and exercise medicine involves the provision of preventative and reactive care for all aspects of health in relation to sport and the use of exercise prescription in the management of health and disease. This article gives an overview of the specialty as it develops in the UK.

The British Association of Sport and Medicine.

Contributed by R. HAM ILTON THOMPSON, P. D., STERN, M. P., WILLIAMS, P., DUNCAN, K., HASKELL, W. L. and WOOD, P. D. Death during jogging or running. JAMA, Vol. 242, No. 12, Sept. 21 1979, pp. 1265-1267. 15 references. The activity history, medical history and autopsy results were examined in 18 cases of individuals who had died during or immediately after jogging. The coronary heart disease ris...

Creatine kinase monitoring in sport medicine.

UNLABELLED AREAS OF GENERAL AGREEMENT: Total creatine kinase (CK) levels depend on age, gender, race, muscle mass, physical activity and climatic condition. High levels of serum CK in apparently healthy subjects may be correlated with physical training status, as they depend on sarcomeric damage: strenuous exercise that damages skeletal muscle cells results in increased total serum CK. The high...

Intercollegiate board for sport and exercise medicine.

Sport and exercise medicine and the Olympic health legacy

London 2012 is the first Olympic and Paralympic Games to explicitly try and develop socioeconomic legacies for which success indicators are specified - the highest profile of which was to deliver a health legacy by getting two million more people more active by 2012. This editorial highlights how specialists in Sport and Exercise Medicine can contribute towards increasing physical activity part...