Carter Neil
International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De Montfort University, Leicester, GB.
Gesnerus. 2013;70(1):17-35.
This article, by focussing on athletes' training methods and treatments for sporting injuries, examines the origins of sports medicine in Britain from around 1850 to 1914. Although, the phrase 'sports medicine' had not yet been invented, the article explains how the development of sports medicine during this period was shaped by a wider historical context. Difficulties over defining sports medicine, for example, stemmed from its status as a holistic practice in an increasingly professionalised medical world. Moreover, ideas concerning the training of athletes reflected both contemporary shifts in medical thinking, especially physiology, and a power struggle between orthodox and unorthodox medical practitioners. During this period, an increasingly competitive sporting world, also gave rise to the sporting injury and the need for specialised treatments. However, rather these treatments further mirrored contemporary medical practices.
本文聚焦于运动员的训练方法和运动损伤治疗，审视了1850年左右至1914年英国运动医学的起源。尽管“运动医学”这一术语当时尚未出现，但本文解释了这一时期运动医学的发展是如何受到更广泛的历史背景影响的。例如，界定运动医学的困难源于其在日益专业化的医学领域中作为一种整体实践的地位。此外，有关运动员训练的观念既反映了当时医学思维的转变，尤其是生理学方面的转变，也反映了正统和非正统医学从业者之间的权力斗争。在这一时期，竞争日益激烈的体育界也导致了运动损伤以及对专门治疗的需求。然而，这些治疗方法进一步反映了当时的医疗实践。
