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• clinical branch of medicine• content: prevention, diagnostics, treatment of sportsmen, non-sportsmen and patients (improper sports activity)
• multidisciplinary character (exercise or load tests for other branches of medicine)
• first specialisation (sports medicine - only second spec.) – reassumes to
- internal medicine or pediatrics
- surgery or orthopedics
• close relation to:
- physical education and sports,
- rehabilitation,
- occupational medicine,
- cardiology (preventive),
- hygiene and epidemiology of non-infection diseases,
- functional anthropology
• the aim
- to use exercise to keep up health and physical fitness
- to provide preventive examinations to sportsmen
- to provide primary prevention of CHD to sportsmen or nonsportsmen
