American College of Sports Medicine

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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:

ACSM journals

The four journals of the ACSM show important contributions to research, clinical and practical application of sports medicine in the broadest sense:

Certifications

ACSM offered ten different certifications in 2016:

Individual evidence

  1. 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
  2. ^ Arnd Krüger : The American sport between isolationism and internationalism . In: competitive sport . Volume 18. No. 1 , 1988, p. 43-47 .
  3. ^ Arnd Krüger : The American sport between isolationism and internationalism . In: competitive sport . Volume 18. No. 2 , 1988, p. 47-50 .
  4. cf. u. a. American College of Sports Medicine. Guidelines for graded exercise testing and exercise prescription. Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1980.
  5. ^ 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).

Web links