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The American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) is a large sports medicine membership organization, representing over 3000 physicians in the United States, established in 1991. [1] AMSSM includes members who serve as team physicians at the youth level, NCAA, NFL, MLB, NBA, WNBA, MLS, and NHL, as well as with Olympic and Paralympic ...
William Osler Abbott (1902–1943) — co-developed the Miller-Abbott tube; William Stewart Agras (born 1929) — feeding behavior; Virginia Apgar (1909–1974) — anesthesiologist who devised the Apgar score used after childbirth
The team physician for a sports team is the physician who is in charge of coordinating the medical staff and medical services for a sports team. They are also subject to activities involving team building. [1] [2] [3] The goal of a team physician is to improve performance and overall health.
The American College of Sports Medicine was founded in 1954 [2] as the "Federation of Sports Medicine" in New York City at the Hotel Statler on April 22, as part of the afternoon program of the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation (AAHPER). The following year, the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) was ...
Space medicine doctors (37 P) Sports physicians (1 C, 3 P) Surgeons (8 C, 9 P) T. Teratologists (11 P) Toxicologists (4 C, 8 P) Tropical physicians (1 C, 2 P) U ...
The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) is a public academic health science center in Galveston, Texas, United States. It is part of the University of Texas System. UTMB includes the oldest medical school in Texas, [5] and has about 11,000 employees. [6] As of April 2024, it had an endowment of $763 million. [7]
Texas Tech University, often referred to as Texas Tech or TTU, is a public, coeducational, research university located in Lubbock, Texas. Established on February 10, 1923, and originally known as Texas Technological College , the university is the leading institution of the Texas Tech University System and has the seventh largest student body ...
Sports medicine is a branch of medicine that deals with physical fitness and the treatment and prevention of injuries related to sports and exercise. Although most sports teams have employed team physicians for many years, it is only since the late 20th century that sports medicine emerged as a distinct field of health care.