A influência da medicina na constituição da ciência do treinamento desportivo : apontamentos históricos

Abstract

This monography is a bibliography research, which tries to understand the medicine influence on the sports training science constitution. By means the verification of a scientific demand inside of the training, since the technique has become insufficient to overcome the opponent (MOLLET, 1979), we have analyzed the historical relations between sport, training, physical exercise and medicine, by introducing discussions about the building and institutionalization process of a practice called sports medicine. We have also tried to show important studies on the physiology field that provided a scientific base in such area of medicine which in order to meet the physical demand of major competitions, it begins to offer support to the sporting performance through practices indications to the trainer job on athletics physical preparation. Through the procedures such as physical evaluation on laboratory, monitoring, diagnosing, preventing and treatments of athlete’s injuries, as well as important researches by physiologists and physicians throughout the history, it allowed the insertion of medicine on the training sphere. Therefore, the sports medicine has been established to deal with aspects that promote the increase of sporting performance whereas worrying to avoid and to treat the athlete's possible injuries, and it currently handles with issues related to the health maintaining of the population