Definitions
History
The Athlete's Circle of Care
Sports Medicine Roles
100

A health care specialist who designs special diets with the goal of enhancing athletic performance.

What is sports nutritionist

100

 When was the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) founded?

What is 1954

100

Who should be first notified once an injury occurs?

What is the coach?

100
This profession works with spinal manipulation.

Chiropractor 

200

A midlevel health care practitioner who works under the supervision of physicians to provide diagnostic and therapeutic care.

What is Physician Assistant

200

Sports medicine today focuses on what?

What is physical performance and body condition?

200

Who is responsible for notifying the parents of an injured athlete? 

What is the athletic trainer?

200

Promotes health and healing and helps manage stress

What is a message therapist.
300

A health care specialist who provides conservative management of neuromusculoskeletal disorders and functional clinical conditions.

What is Chiropractor 

300

Sports medicine began developing into a recognized field in the early twentieth century through what?

What is physical training and rehabilitation of military veterans.

300
A team physician should work directly with who? 

What is the family physician? 

300

This profession is to use a team approach for treatment

What is an athletic trainer?

400


Provides education and credentials for fitness, sports performance, and sports medicine professionals.

What is National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM)

400

Modern competitive sports have indisputably gone above and beyond the athletic activities of the past in terms of business value, strength of athletes, and the level of importance placed on success.

What business value, strength of athletes, and the level of importance placed on success.

400

Who is considered to be in the athletes circle of care?

What is all individuals involved in care of the athlete?

400

They provide diagnostic and therapeutic patient care.

What is physician assistant.

500

A specialist who designs and implements safe, effective strength and conditioning programs.

What is Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist

500

When was one of the first known meetings aimed at the desire to understand and extend the limits of human performance?

What is The Sports Physician’s Congress, held in Germany in 1912.

500

Who in the athletes's circle of care deals with their long term health?

What is a family physician?

500

Who should teach athletes to distinguish between the discomfort and the pain of injury

What is the parent.

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