Football

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Footballs Impact on Sports Medicine
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• Who will treat the
• bumps and bruises...

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Football Sports Medicine

• Football - an inherently dangerous sport -
  injuries are bound to happen
• As the number and severity of injuries increased
  the need for trained medical staff increased

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Football Sports Medicine

• What factors have increased the risk of injury
  over the years?
• Early 1800s
• no rules
• no pads
• no helmets
• no refs
• 50 players on the field
• Result - MANY serious injuries and deaths

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Factors that have impacted the risk of injury

• The Late 1800s...
• rules changed in 1880
• some made the game safer and others made it more
  dangerous
• referees hired to to watch for penalties
• and hopefully reduce the number of
• injuries

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Factors that have impacted the risk of injuryThe
Early 1900s

• 1902 AMA declared football to be as hazardous as
  war with almost as many casualties
• President Roosevelt vowed to abolish football
• As a result of political pressure football
  changed dramatically in 1902
• new rules
• officials introduced to the game
• helmets and padding required

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Medical Response to Changes in the Game

• 1950s - doctors not sympathetic to football
  players
• bed rest, crutches or canes or just stop playing
• Coaches and Doctors did not work well together
  coaches began to discourage athletes from going
  to the doctor

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Medical Response to Changes in the Game

• Orthopedic surgeons were concerned about how many
  football players they were seeing
• New associations founded to focus on athletes
• The new specialty of SPORTS MEDICINE was born in
  the 1960s

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Medical Response to Changes in the Game

• NATA founded in 1950
• ACSM - 1953
• AAOS - 1964
• AOSSM - 1971
• All of these organizations focused on athletes
  how to treat injuries and also reduce their risks

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Medical Response to Changes in the Game

• As you can see the field of Sports Medicine has
  grown and changed in response to the needs of
  football players and coaches
• Have other sports impacted the development of
  Sports Medicine? Thats what you will find
  out...