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Sports Medicine Australia is Australia’s peak national umbrella body for sports medicine and sports science. It was established in 1963 as the Australian Sports Medicine Federation. Its current membership includes sports medicine and health professionals, sports trainers, sporting clubs and community members. Its activities cover elite sport to community grass roots sports. It has branches in each Australian state. ==History== It was formed in 1963 by the amalgamation of the Australian Sports Medicine Association and the Australian and the Australian Federation of Sports Medicine.〔 Australian Sports Medicine Federation was established as a result of 1956 Melbourne Olympics medical services. Australian Sports Medicine Federation was a New South Wales breakaway group of Australian Sports Medicine Federation. Membership was originally restricted to medical doctors but now it has been widened to include a range of practitioners including: orthopedic surgeons, sports physicians, doctors, physiotherapists, optometrists, dentists, podiatrists, dietitians, psychologists, sports scientists, nurses, teachers, academics, soft tissue therapists and chiropractors.〔 Some of these membership groups have established their own organisations – Australasian College of Sports Physicians, Sports Dietitians Australia, Australian Association for Exercise and Sports Science, Sports Doctors Australia, Australian Physiotherapy Assoctation National Sports Physiotherapy Group but work with SMA particularly in relation to joint conferences. Brief summary of major historical developments: *1963 – Australian Sports Medicine Federation established〔 *1964 – ''Australian Journal of Sports Medicine'' first published. Now called ''Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport''.〔 *1965 – inaugural Australian Sports Medicine Federation Conference, Adelaide, South Australia〔 *1974 – hosted FIMS Conference, Melbourne, Victoria〔 *1982 – Launched the Australian Sports Trainers Scheme and published the ''Survey of Drug Use in Australian Sport’'〔 *1983 – ''Sport Health'' magazine first published〔 *1984 – Established National Office in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory *1986 - hosted XXIII FIMS World Congress in Sports Medicine, Melbourne, Victoria *1989 – Published ''Guidelines for Safety in Sport''〔 *1999 – 5th International Olympic Committee World Congress on Sports Sciences, Sydney, New South Wales *2010 – National Office becomes a virtual office with staff members being located in state offices.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sports Medicine Australia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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