文档介绍：IFeatured CME Topic: Sports Medicine
Exercise Physiology and Its Role in Clinical
Sports Medicine
Russell R. Pate, PHD, and J. Larry Durstine, PHD
back to the early 20* century. In 1927 the Harvard Fatigue
Annotation: Increasingly, the greater sports medicine world has Laboratory was fotmded, and for the eeding two decades
been able to turn to exercise physiology for information that targets researchers at that facility conducted numerous studies that ad-
the capabilities of our recreational petitive athletes. Func- vanced our knowledge of the physiologic and metabolic re-
tional physiologic deficits can be quantitated. Erasure of those def- sponses to exercise. "Alumni" of the Harvard Fatigue Labora-
icits can be documented. Sports-specific physiologic qualities can tory were subsequently responsible for developing exercise
help direct coaches in their training program, and in choosing ath- physiology research laboratories in several prominent US utii-
letes for their short- and long-term event participation. versities. From those rather humble origins exercise physiology
has grown dramatically, so that it is now a focus of academic
ver the past three decades exercise physiology has as- training and research in most major universities in the United
Osumed an increasingly prominent role in clinical sports States and many around the world. The American College o