The coming of age of sports medicine

BMJ 1997;314:621 (1 March)

Editorials

The coming of age of sports medicine

Growing demand must be matched by specialist accreditation and recognition

Recent proposals are set to change the way sports medicine isperceived and practised in Britain. Sports medicine is not newbut has been practised away from mainstream medicine as a hobbyor in the domains of private practice and physiotherapy. Therehas been no formal accreditation or recognition of the specialtyand little or no provision for sports medicine within the NHS.Its Cinderella status in Britain reflects the struggles of anemerging discipline within the confines of the traditional medicalparadigm. But this position is not universal. Other countrieshave successfully produced models of education and practiceof sports medicine to suit their own healthcare systems.

The term sports medicine is emotive as it has connotations ofcare limited to the sporting elite. This is wrong. More accuratelydescribed as sport and exercise medicine, the specialty coversthe entire spectrum of human performance and reflects the totalmedical . . . [Full text of this article]

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Editorial should have mentioned National Sports Medicine Institute of the UK: Neil Townshend
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