American College of Sports Medicine
The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) is a large, nonprofit sports medicine and occupational physiology organization .
It was founded in 1954 in order to have a scientific counterweight to the then more educationally oriented National Academy of Kinesiology and American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation (AAHPER) and at the same time to assert itself independently in the field of medical science. At that time, the founders primarily looked to Germany as the leading country in sports medicine. The organization organizes a very large annual scientific congress, publishes sports medicine journals, trains and certifies sports medicine specialists. The recommendations of the ACSM have far-reaching consequences, as the entire association is behind them.
ACSM has been based in Indianapolis , Indiana since 1984 .
The founders were:
- Clifford Brownell , Ph.D.
- Ernst Jokl , MD,
- Peter V. Karpovich , MD,
- Leonard Larson , Ph.D.
- Grover Mueller , MS,
- Neils Neilson , Ph.D,
- Josephine Rathbone , Ph.D.
- Arthur H. Steinhaus , Ph.D.
- Louis F. Bishop , MD
- Albert Hyman , MD,
- Joseph Wolffe , MD
ACSM journals
The four journals of the ACSM show important contributions to research, clinical and practical application of sports medicine in the broadest sense:
- Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
- Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews
- Current Sports Medicine Reports
- ACSM's Health & Fitness Journal
Certifications
ACSM offered ten different certifications in 2016:
- ACSM Certified Personal Trainer
- ACSM Certified Group Exercise Instructor
- ACSM Certified Exercise Physiologist
- ACSM Certified Clinical Exercise Physiologist
- ACSM Registered Clinical Exercise Physiologist
- Exercise is Medicine Credential
- ARP / ACSM Certified Ringside Physician
- ACSM / NCHPAD Certified Inclusive Fitness Trainer
- ACSM / ACS Certified Cancer Exercise Trainer
- Physical Activity in Public Health Specialist
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jack W. Berryman, Roberta J. Park (Ed.) (1992): Sport and exercise science: essays in the history of sports medicine. Urbana Ill .: Univ. of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-01896-6
- ^ Arnd Krüger : The American sport between isolationism and internationalism . In: competitive sport . Volume 18. No. 1 , 1988, p. 43-47 .
- ^ Arnd Krüger : The American sport between isolationism and internationalism . In: competitive sport . Volume 18. No. 2 , 1988, p. 47-50 .
- ↑ cf. u. a. American College of Sports Medicine. Guidelines for graded exercise testing and exercise prescription. Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1980.
- ^ William F. Simpson: A Look Ahead to 2016 for ACSM's Committee on Certification and Registry Boards . In: ACSM's Health & Fitness Journal . tape 20 , no. 2 , 2016, p. 31-32 (English).