Sports Medicine - Introductory lesson

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Sports Medicine - Introductory lesson

• Sports medicine - branch of clinical medicine
• Goal - knowledge how the body performs and
  respond to physical activity and sport
• - how various body systems adapt to bouts and to
  long-term exposure to exercise traning

• Clinical practice
• use of exercise to keep up health and physical
  fitness
• assessment of physical fitness in sportsmen
  (patients)
• prescription of sports activity (competitive
  sportsmen, patiens)
• special care to top sportsmen
• special exercise examination for other branches
  of medicine (e.g. cardiology, pneumology)
• sports injuries (prevention,assessment of
  exercise abilities after injury or disease)
• primary prevention of coronary heart disease
• investigation in exercise physiology

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Organisation of Sports Medicine teaching
programme

• Lectures according time table schedule
• Practicals - physical examination of sportsmen
• - exercise testing of sportsmen
• Seminars - noninvasive laboratory investigation
  of cardio/pulmonary functions
• - prescription of exercise in various health
  disorders
• - clinical pearls in sports medicine