Sports medicine : physical fitness and rehabilitation

Sports medicine is a branch of medicine that deals with the physiology of the human organism when subjected to stress; it teaches the adaptation and the reactions of the human machine to varying degrees of physical exercise; it indicates the pleasures and pitfalls of games and instructs what should be done to encourage the widest possible participation in sports together with the least danger of injury. The fruits of sports medicine are beneficial also outside the field of sport; all non-sportsmen indistinctly, of whatever age group, can reap such fruits.peer-reviewe