Presidential address of the american orthopaedic society for sports medicine: success in your sports medicine career with a purpose-driven life.

摘要

So, what about the importance of sports medicine history? Well as history dictates, if you don't know where you have been you certainly don't know where you are going. So let's look back in time at the development of sports medicine and the team physician.Herodicus reportedly was the first team physician and the original Father of Sports Medicine. He was a Thracian physician of the 5th century,bc, who rendered his fundamental theories on the use of therapeutic exercises for the maintenance of health and treatment of disease. Reportedly, Hippocrates' father sent him to the Isle of Crete to study sports medicine from Herodicus. Noteworthy was the fact that he was both a physician and an athletic trainer.