THE CZECH SOCIETY OF SPORTS MEDICINE
Title, status, territorial scope, residence
- The Czech Society of Sports Medicine (further referred to as
Society) is a voluntary scientific nonpolitical organization associating
doctors, university students and paramedics who are active in
the branch of sports science or are involved or interested in
sports health care.
- The Society operates in the Czech Republic.
- The residence of the Society is in Brno.
The Mission of the Society
The Society primarily
- supports broad development of theoretical and practical knowledge
in sports health care and sports science
- to an established extent participates in medical research
- organizes or cooperates on organization of various scientific
events by which it endorses rapid implementation of latest domestic
and foreign scientific results
- participates in other forms of further training in the branch
of sports science
- in accordance with legal regulations participates in scientific
activities of the Czech Medical Chamber
- carries out an advisory function for the Czech Ministry of Health
Care
- participates in formation and implementation of medical and
ethical principals, proposes legal regulations and various measures
in sports health care
- proposes modifications to the conception of sports science
- submits proposals and scientific reports in practical matters
of diagnostics, treatment, prevention, health education and professional
ethics based on special characteristics of the branch
- promotes and popularizes scientific medical knowledge among
the population with the focus on promotion of proper physical
activity
- publishes a scientific journal
- cooperates with medical societies of other branches in the CR
and with medical societies and associations with the similar orientation
from abroad
International activities
The Czech Society of Sports Medicine has been
a member of FIMS (Fédération Internationale de Médecine Sportive)
since its foundation in 1928. The Czech society TVL then belonged
to the founders. The Czech Society of Sports Medicine has been a
founder member of EFSM (European Federation of Sports Medicine)
since 1997.
The Philosophy of Sports Medicine
Characteristics of the discipline
Definition, objectives
Sports medicine is a clinical discipline concerned with physical
and sporting activities of humans in diagnostics, treatment and
prevention. It is namely focused on:
A/ People who are ill or weakened during physical activities,
and whose physical performance is limited by the disease.
- This aspect comprises namely: diagnostics, treatment and secondary
prevention of cardiovascular, bronchopulmonary, endocrine, metabolic
diseases, neurovegetative disorders, and injured motoric functions
– together with other disciplines. Physical activities in these
diseases are considered to be a secondary prevention and treatment.
- The assessment of physical abilities /sports, recreational,
working, habitual/.
- An integral part of sports medicine as of a separate extended
specialized discipline is stress functional diagnostics, i.e.
clinical evaluation of tests using physical stress.
- The objectives of the discipline include an expert prescription
of suitable physical activity as a part of a treatment, rehabilitation,
and an everyday life. This part of the discipline and functional
diagnostics constitute a main advisory assistance for other disciplines.
- Diagnostics of somatic development and its disorders
- Education of patients, optimizing of exercise schedule
- The discipline is further focused on diagnostics, treatment
and secondary prevention of diseases resulting from improper exercises
or from incorrect motoric behaviour.
B/ Healthy people
- Common people of all age groups – assessment of prerequisites
for physical activities /recreational and sports/, prevention
of diseases, examination and evaluation of physical development.
- Sportsmen involved in training and competitions – prevention
of diseases possibly due to inadequate exercises /including fight
against doping/, optimizing of training procedures /stress, recovery/
targeted on the improvement of sport performance.
Sphere of action
Sports medicine is an interdisciplinary branch. It cooperates with
other medical disciplines – internal medicine, general medicine,
paediatrics, adolescent medicine, surgery, orthopaedics, physiotherapy,
cardiology, diabetology, oncology, preventive medicine, immunology,
occupational therapy and others.
It utilizes the procedures of the above disciplines and runs advisory
examinations for them.
An integrate part of the discipline is preventive, diagnostic,
and medical care for people practising physical exercises and sports.
For other disciplines it provides advisory service for ill and endangered
people.
The journal of the Czech and Slovak Sports Medicine
Medicina Sportiva Bohemica and Slovaca
Med Sport Boh Slov is a common journal for the Czech and Slovak
Society of Sports Medicine.
Original scientific articles are published in the journal as well
as summaries, casuistry, short announcements, and various news about
sports medicine.
The residence and Chairman of the society, Secretariat:
M.D. Luboš Hrazdira PhD
Jílkova 167
615 00 Brno
tel/fax: +420 548 535 746
e-mail: cstl@centrum.cz
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