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Abstract. In 2007, the American College of Sports Medicine, with endorsement from the American Medical Association and the Office of the Surgeon General, launched a global initiative to mobilize physicians, healthcare professionals and providers, and educators to promote exercise in their practice or activities to prevent, reduce, manage, or treat diseases that impact health and the quality of ...
he new "physical education" movement in the early 19th century in the United States. They were known then as the "Laws of Health." Until the early 1900s, "physical education" was dominated by physicians who specialized in health and exercise. However, physical education changed to a games and sports curriculum led by coaches who introduced competition and athletic achievement into the ...
Herodicus (fifth century BC: ) is the first person in the history of medicine who actually combined sports with medicine. He used to be a sports teacher, who later studied medicine and managed to succeed Euryphon in the medical school of Cnidos, one of the most prominent in ancient Greece together w ….
- Anastasios D. Georgoulis, Irini Sofia Kiapidou, Lamprini Velogianni, Nicholas Stergiou, Arthur Bolan...
- 2007
Abstract. An evolutionary perspective helps evaluate the extent to which exercise is medicine and to explain the exercise paradox: why people tend to avoid exercise despite its benefits. Many lines of evidence indicate that humans evolved to be adapted for regular, moderate amounts of endurance physical activity into late age.
Abstract. Much of the early information about exercise and medicine appeared in the ancient, medieval, and Renaissance medical literature in the context of the "six things nonnatural." These were the things that were under everyone's own control, directly influenced health, and became the central part of the new "physical education" movement in ...
- Jack W. Berryman
- 2010
The stories of athletes are most likely to be found in statistical and epidemiological investigations, and in field experiments and clinical case studies, and it is no coincidence that these are exactly the historical practices that tend to be marginalized in the traditional history of biology and medicine, which focuses on the ‘rise of the laboratory’ and the industrialization of science.
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Sep 2, 2006 · Herodicus was a sports medicine doctor, one of the oldest of Cnidos’ medical school, who is known to us by name. He combined his knowledge of physical education and medicine to develop new treatments that could benefit his patients. He formulated his own medical theory and he applied his ideas to his patients.
