| Do you like sports? Are you into one? Are you a | | | | fitness activities, exercise programs for schools |
| big fan? If YES then you might find Sports | | | | and health clubs, and special conditioning programs, |
| Physical Therapy as a hot choice for a career. | | | | while also teaching people in general some special |
| Sports Physical Therapy is among the fastest | | | | knowledge and skills on injury prevention and |
| growing specialty areas in physical therapy. Widely | | | | strength, endurance, or agility training. |
| know as Sports Medicine, sports physical therapy | | | | The Sports Medicine term for Sports Physical |
| has been an age-long practicum for human | | | | Therapy is in fact not secluded to the treatment |
| athletes. Competitors' sports therapists ranging | | | | of only athletes. Sports Physical Therapy is a |
| from football to gymnastics have utilized a variety | | | | treatment of anyone involved in physical exercise. |
| of approaches to help maintain physical fitness | | | | Sports physical therapy is more accurately |
| and to assist in the recovery process of their | | | | defined as healthcare for anyone who plays |
| athlete-patients when injury occurs to a joint, | | | | sports as well as those who perform exercise. |
| muscle, ligament, or tendon. But did you know | | | | This means that sports physical therapy, aside |
| that the earliest sports physical therapy | | | | from its primary focus on acute/chronic injury |
| practitioners are professional athletes themselves? | | | | prevention, also includes management of medical |
| Being a great athlete requires knowing how to | | | | problems caused by exercise, treatment of |
| take care of your body. That's how sports med | | | | chronic disease with exercise, and even specific |
| developed. Athletes attended to their physical | | | | exercise needs for children or women. |
| health as well as to those of their team mates. | | | | Aside from hospitals and clinics, sports physical |
| Today, sports physical therapy has evolved into a | | | | therapists also work for community health |
| distinctive specialty as it now focus on the | | | | centers, consulting groups, nursing homes, |
| effects of any form of exercise or physical | | | | rehabilitation centers, private sports medicine |
| activity aside from basic prevention or | | | | clinics, fitness centers, sports facilities, |
| enhancement of physical performance to help | | | | organizations for the handicapped, government |
| injured athletes recover. | | | | health agencies, home health agencies, and |
| The field has grown expansively as more and | | | | schools, including high schools and colleges. Many |
| more people in general, not just athletes, starts | | | | sports physical therapy practitioners are also |
| to become aware of their health as reflected in | | | | technically self-employed in a private practice |
| their fit bodies. The role of the sports therapists | | | | even though they work in much the same way |
| has become more and more important as they | | | | and setting. But forget that you can work |
| are called upon to help people achieve optimal | | | | privately for a 'Beckham' - you're making more |
| health and peak physical performance by designing | | | | people fit! |