From the origin to the present : the history of sports and exercise medicine

Abstract

The dawn of sports and exercise medicine (SEM) dates back more than one century, when the first medical investigations on trained or untrained individuals were collected in the Sports Laboratory in Dresden, Germany, managed by Arthur Mallwitz, during the 1st International Hygiene Exhibition, from May to October 1911. One year later the 1st Congress for the scientific investigation of Sports and Physical Exercises was held in Oberhof, Germany, with topics about the physical education, woman and physical fitness, cardiovascular adaptations to the training and doping. The first SEM Association was founded during this meeting and it was called the “German Committee for Scientific Investigation of Sports and Physical Exercises”.