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Descriptor English: Sports Medicine
Descriptor Spanish: Medicina Deportiva
Descriptor medicina deportiva
Entry term(s) medicina del deporte
Scope note: Campo de la medicina que se ocupa de la forma física y del tratamiento de lesiones sufridas por la práctica de ejercicios físicos y de actividades deportivas.
Descriptor Portuguese: Medicina Esportiva
Descriptor French: Médecine du sport
Entry term(s): Medicine, Sport
Medicine, Sports
Sport Medicine
Tree number(s): H02.403.830
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013178
Scope note: The field of medicine concerned with physical fitness and the diagnosis and treatment of injuries sustained in exercise and sports activities.
Annotation: use for the discipline (education, history, etc) only; SPORTS is available for the activity; policy Manual 30.15
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ED education
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
OG organization & administration
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Public MeSH Note: 80; was SPORT MEDICINE 1963-79
Online Note: use SPORTS MEDICINE to search SPORT MEDICINE 1966-79
History Note: 80; was SPORT MEDICINE 1963-79
Entry Version: SPORTS MED
Related: Athletic Injuries MeSH
Protective Devices MeSH
DeCS ID: 13563
Unique ID: D013178
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1980/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2010/06/25
Sports Medicine - Preferred
Concept UI M0020389
Scope note The field of medicine concerned with physical fitness and the diagnosis and treatment of injuries sustained in exercise and sports activities.
Preferred term Sports Medicine
Entry term(s) Medicine, Sport
Medicine, Sports
Sport Medicine



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