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 Sports medicine or sport medicine is an interdisciplinary specialty of medicine which deals with the treatment and preventive care of athletes, both amateur and professional. Despite this wide scope, there has been a tendency for many to assume that sport-related problems are by default musculoskeletal and that sports medicine is an orthopaedic specialty. There is much more to sports medicine than just musculoskeletal diagnosis and treatment.
Illness or injury in sport can be caused by many factors – from environmental to physiological and psychological. Consequently, sports medicine can encompass an array of specialties, including cardiology, pulmonology, orthopaedic surgery, exercise physiology, biomechanics, and traumatology. Continued...
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Fitness and Sport 
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The ability to play any sport depends on your aerobic capacity, strength, and flexibility. Improving all of these gives you the power to meet the demands and challenges of each activity. It also ensures that your body is in tip-top condition to enjoy your chosen endevour. Concentrating on your overall health and fitness is imprortant. But as each individual athletic activity calls for particular skills, Sport-Specific Training section will give you recommendations and easy guidelines to follow. 
Today everybody seems to talk about staying active and getting fit. In fact, fitness has become such a common word that we all think that we know what it means. But if you really put your mind to it, you may have a hard time figuring out what to do when you decide to improve your fitness. Basically, we refer to feeling physically good which usually comes as a bonus for being physically active, eating nutritious healthy foods, staying away from smoking, drinking and unnecessary drugs, sleeping well and controlling your stress levels. Sounds simple, but Active Living goes way beyond that. 
