Sport has existed for thousands of years, and therefore, sports medicine, a branch of medicine that specializes in the prevention and treatment of injuries associated with exercise and sports, is practiced. Although many professional sports teams have been working with doctors for many years, sports and exercise medicine did not become a separate segment of health care until the end of the twentieth century. However, it is practiced in some way from an early civilization.
Start of sports medicine
The Atharva Veda method used by Hindus is the first recorded use of exercise for treating sports injuries. The Chinese book Kung Fu, created around 1000 BC, also mentions physiotherapy. Only in the fifth century BC did we see a mention of therapeutic exercises in the Western world. This practice was associated with Herodice, who is considered to be the teacher of Hippocrates, who is considered the Father of Medicine. Hippocrates himself also recommended to engage in the treatment of diseases.
Practice becomes an adaptation
Coaches, who also served as trainers, became lamps by the fifth century BC. The first textbook on sports education was written in about 444 BC. Iccus of Tarentum, himself a former champion of Pentathlon. The Romans continued this practice, releasing several textbooks over the next 700 years. Milo of Croton was perhaps one of the most famous trainers of the time, and the first recorded progressive exercise on resistance, the removal of the bull on his birthday, is attributed to him.
The rivalry between coaches and doctors assigned doctors to the role of treatment until the second century AD, when for the first time the role of the team doctor was noted. The pontiff Maximus appointed Claudius Galen of Pergamum and Rome as a doctor for the gladiators in Pergamum. Claudius published his appeal and finds, and then became a doctor of the famous emperor Marcus Aurelius. When the Roman Empire fell, additional training was limited in the western world. The Byzantine Empire and Islamic culture have retained their heritage for many years.
Dr. Edward Hitchcock brought sports medicine to America when he became the first instructor in physical education and hygiene at Amherst College in 1854. He is considered the first sports doctor and team doctor in the United States. Other early interns included doctors. Edward Nichols, Mal Stevens and August Thorndike, who published the first general text of the practice in this country. Today, doctors use chiropractors and other advanced methods of treating physical activity.
