Sport and exercise medicine: a timely specialty development. Academy of Sport Medicine

摘要

The new UK Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine could not have been established at a better time. Not only does it come close on the heels of London's successful bid for the 2012 Olympics, with all the interest in sport and exercise that this great event is bound to generate, but it also coincides with widespread recognition that everyday physical activity can play a crucial part in the promotion of health, prevention of disease, and management of patients with long-term conditions.