Sports Medicine

How Sports Medicine First Originated

500 BCE

Heordicius, a Greek trainer and doctor was the first person ever to treat a diease with exercise

First Team Doctor

200

Galen was the first person to be a doctor on a team of gladiators. He helped the injured gladiators in battles.

The Canon of Medicine Published

1025

Ibn Sina, or more known as Avicenna, he had a big impact on medicine and their advancements. The Canon of Medicine was one of the main books in Europe between 11th - 17th Century. He also wrote the Book of the Cure!

De Art Gymnastica

1569

An Italian doctor named Gerolamo Mercuriale wrote a book De Art Gymnastica which throughly explains how exercise influences your entire wellbeing and medicine.

Metabolism meeting activites

1611

Santorio Santorio was the director of medicine theory at Padua University. He spent about 30 years studying the metabolism and pulse after various activites and recorded them. A fun fact is that he also invented the thermometer in 1612.

Start of occupational medicine

1682

Bernardino Ramazzini is another Italian doctor who is also known as one of the founders of occupational medicine. He published a book called De Morbis Artificum Diatriba. He saw how workers' health were negatively affected by motion and posture.

How Exercise Influences Circulation

1800

August Bier was a German physician who was the first person to conduct spinal anesthesia and Arlie V. Bock who had lots of circulation education and blood reaction to exercise both wrote a book about how exercise influenced circulation. Side note: I couldn't find a picture of Arlie V. Bock.

First Athletic Trainer in Harvard

1881

When athletic training first started in the States, James Robinson was hired in Harvard University to help football teams prepare and get in good shape for their games. The first athletic trainers actually had no technical training.

The End of Hiatus

1896

After more than a century of slow progress in sports medicine. It rised back again in 1896, Olympic games were starting again. Athletes were starting to be more aware of the fact their body needs to be safe and protected.

German Meeting about Sports Medicine

1912

The meeting in German was a big contribution to Sports Medicine because they helped encourage the start of Sports Medicine companies.

First Textbook of Sports Medicine

1917

Samuel E. Bilik worked at the University of Ilinois as a part-time athletic trainer. Later in his years, he became a physician. He wrote a major important textbook about Athletic Training.

First Journal about Sports Medicine

1922

The French Society of Sports Medicine published the first journal of Sports medicine.

Creation of Congress of Sports Medicine

1928

After the German meeting, a small group formed what was called the International Congress of Sports Medicine which help avoid injuries caused by sports.

Cramer Chemical Company

1932

Frank and Chuck Cramer launched a company called the Cramer Chemical Company. From then on, they issued a pamphlet called The First Aider.

Start of NATA (National Athletic Trainers Assocation)

1950

NATA was formed back in Kansas City in Missouri to bring out the real professional quality of athletic medical care.

Initiation of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)

1954

This company was made to show that health issues correlated with our lifestyle choices. They also encouraged the education and research about sports medicine.

First Approved Athletic Training Program

1959

At this date, NATA validated the first athletic training program and from then on, multiple colleges and universities were accepting them too at an undergraduate level.

Official Physician Group in the Olympics

1968

J.C. Kennedy was the one who formed the group which is now recognized as the Canadian Academy of Sports Medicine.

Athletic Trainer Certification

Jun 6, 1969

This meeting, the Professional Advanced Commitee passed the instructions of how to get certified as an athletic trainer to NATA directors.

Establishment of AOSSM (American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine)

1972

This was started for orthopedic physicians to get educated on how to not only take care but avoid athletic injuries.

BOC (Board of Certification)

1989

This was made as a credential organization. In present time, you would have to pass their exam in order to be certified as an athletic trainer.

American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM)

1990

This is a large organization that has over 3000 doctors who are devoted to research, learn about Sports Medicine and inform others aswell.

Approval as an actual profession

1990

In 1992, the American Board of Emergency Medicine officially acknowledged sports medicine as an occupation and subfield.

Start of NATA Education Council

1997

This was created to help decide the abilities that people should learn in recognized athletic training programs.

The Lystedt Law

2009

This law says that suffering a concussion will not allow you to play in the game without getting approval by a certified professional. This happened because of a 13-year-old boy named Zachary Lystedt who had gotten a concussion in football, but continued playing and unfortunately, got into a coma. This law was passed in 2009 in Washington.