The Trauma of Athletics
- 28 February 1952
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 246 (9) , 335-339
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm195202282460905
Abstract
SINCE the appearance in 1940 of progress reports on the isolated topic of athletic trauma,1 many publications have appeared concerning lesions and injuries of similar types but not necessarily incident to athletics. Advances have been made in the treatment of trauma, whether due to physical agents of industrial occupational hazards or to war. Much of the same pathology exists as the result of athletic trauma.At this time one questions whether true amateurism exists in college athletics, whether the game is played among amateur scholarship heroes for financial gain or for fun, whether the deaths from the sport of professional . . .Keywords
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- Samuel Hyde Memorial LectureProceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1950