Sport Medicine

            Welcome back guys! Today’s topic will be about sport medicine and its meaning as a Physical Education’s branch. Sport medicine is a branch of Physical Education that studies and establish a medical relation between physical activity and the human body. This discipline makes scientific studies of the factors that influence the performance in sports. This branch focus on people or athletes to improve their performance, to recover from injuries and to prevent future injuries. Sport medicine professionals are well known for working with professional teams in many sports but they also can work with any person that do sports just for fun.

            There many careers in the field of sport medicine, including: Athletic trainer, Medical doctor, Kinesiotherapist, Nursing, Exercise physiologist, Physical therapy, etc. Sport medicine is a rich branch when it comes to expertise and knowledge. Its professionals have to be very educated and experienced to do a great job while working with athletes or any other person. This branch is very needed around the world but it is also very competitive. If any of you guys are considering this branch, you might want to remember that you will need to be well educated to become a professional and to compete against others for jobs in society.

            Here is a video in which James Voos, the Head Team Physician for The Cleveland Browns, explains what is it like to be a sport medicine profesional:

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