| Abstract | | Within the framework of comprehensive health care of athletes, sports medicine is concerned with both sports and medicine. Through knowledge of specific biomechanics of particular sports disciplines, it aims to alleviate or prevent possible damage to health resulting from intensive sports training. Already in the ancient Greece and Italy, there were individual physicians who investigated, described and learnt about specific responses bf the organism to strain, and treated pathologic conditions resulting from intensive movement and sports activity. However, the beginnings of a real development of sports medicine in Europe date in the break of the 19th and 20th century. In Slovenia, an organised development of sports medicine, follow-up of specific sports-related health problems as well as the treatment of injuries and overuse syndrome related to sports began after World War 11, when the Institute of Sports Medicine and the Central Sports Clinic were established in Ljubljana. By publishing the book "Osnove športno-medicinskega nauka" (The Basics of Sports Medicine Teaching) in 1950 and the journal "Športno-medicinske objave" (Sports Medicine Reports) in the years 1953-55 and 1967-85, A. Šef set a basis of modern sports medicine in Slovenia. Nowadays, sports medicine, along with the specialist field of occupational and traffic medicine, has found its legal place in the system of Slovene preventive medicine.
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| Summary | | Medicina športa, ki v okviru kompleksnega zdravstvenega varstva športnikov deluje na področju medicine in športa, skuša ob poznavanju specifične biomehanike posameznih športnih panog omiliti oz. preprečevati možno škodo na zdravju, ki jo lahko povzroči intenzivna športna vadba. Kljub temu da so že v antični Grčiji in Italiji obstajali posamezni zdravniki, ki so raziskovali, opisovali in spoznavali posebne odgovore organizma na obremenitve ter zdravili patološka stanja, pogojena z intenzivnim gibanjem in športno aktivnostjo, se je pravi razvoj medicine športa začel v Evropi ob koncu 19. in v začetku 20. stoletja. V Sloveniji se je organiziran razvoj medicine športa, spremljanje specifične zdravstvene problematike športnikov ter zdravljenje poškodb in preobremenitev v zvezi s športom začelo po drugi svetovni vojni z ustanovitvijo Inštituta za športno medicino in Centralne športne ambulante v Ljubljani. A. Šef je z izdajo knjige "Osnove športno-medicinskega nauka" (1950) in z izdajanjem časopisa "Športno-medicinske objave" (1953-1955 in 1967-1985) postavil temelj moderne medicine športa v Sloveniji.. Medicina športa je v sedanjem obdobju vezana na specializacijo medicine dela in prometa in z ustreznimi zakonskimi podlagami zasidrana v okvir slovenske preventivne medicine.
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