Author(s): Narinder Kaur

Abstract:
Sports medicine is a branch of medicine that deals with physical fitness, treatment and prevention of injuries related to sports and exercise. Sports Medicine is a connection between science and practice in the promotion of exercise and health and in the scientific assessment, study and understanding of sports performance. Sports injury prevention and treatment, exercise for health, drugs in sport and recommendations for training and nutrition come under sports medicine. The goal of sports medicine is to help people engage in exercise safely and effectively in order to achieve their training goals. Exercise or sports science is the study of the principles of physiology, anatomy, and psychology as they relate to human movement and physical activity and thereby to sports medicine. Exercise science mainly deals with clinical research including the impact of performance-enhancing drugs, physiological responses to exercise and comparative effectiveness of exercise techniques.

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