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The ACSEP was originally formed as the Australian College of Sports Physicians (ACSP) in 1985 by a group of doctors with vocational interest in sports medicine. [28] Some of the original sports physicians in Australia were GPs who took an interest in sport and eventually chose to practise full-time in this area. [29]
A seminal series of consensus papers has been the international guidelines on the management of concussion in sport. [ 53 ] [ 54 ] [ 55 ] These consensus statements have been seen on the positive side as being sports medicine leaders moving the management of concussion in a more conservative direction over time and encouraging a standard set of ...
This has led Cricket Australia to plan out an updated concussion policy and guidelines [9] The principles are based on the International Consensus Conferences on Concussion in Sport (the Zurich Guidelines) and involve the player suspected of being concussed answering a set of questions to determine whether he has to leave the field. While ...
Sport management is the field of business dealing with sports and recreation. [1] Sports management involves any combination of skills that correspond with planning, organizing, directing, controlling, budgeting, leading, or evaluating of any organization or business within the sports field. [ 2 ]
Government involvement in sport up until the 1970s was fairly limited with local governments playing a major role through the provision of sporting facilities. [1] However, this changed over the next two decades with an Australian Bureau of Statistics survey in 2001–2002 finding that approximately $2 billion was spent on sport by three levels of government – 10 per cent from the Australian ...
The college is a signatory to the Cairns Consensus Statement of Rural Generalist Medicine endorsed by 23 national and international medical organisations. [1] ACRRM has a current national membership of around 4,500 including fellows , registrars , practitioners, junior doctors and students.
Sports Medicine Australia is Australia's peak national umbrella body for sports medicine and sports science. It was established in 1963 as the Australian Sports Medicine Federation . [ 1 ] Its current membership includes sports medicine and health professionals, sports trainers , sporting clubs and community members.
The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) is a high performance sports training institution in Australia. [3] The institute's 66-hectare (163-acre) headquarters were opened in 1981 and are situated in the northern suburb of Bruce , Canberra .