Lets work together for sports medicine
Recently BISS has organised two international training courses — "Sports Physician Course" and "Sports Physiotherapy Course" in Dhaka. Trainers form Turkish Federation of Sports Medicine are seen along with the participants in the 4-day course.
During the last two decades, significant progress has been made to help increase the performance of players who are taking part in different competitive sports. However, sports medicine in Bangladesh is lagging far behind. With combined efforts to establish sports medicine, we have many things to do yet. Sports medicine is a multi disciplinary approach that includes cardiology, hematology, infectious diseases, trauma, exercise, sports psychology, nutrition and environmental aspects and so on. Sports medicine is not only concerned with the treatment of injuries. It encompasses other things like training diet and other methods for peak performance. Along with dealing professional players, sports medicine has also significant importance in serving normal people who randomly play and help people in doing proper exercise. The tempo of the past several decades has shown the wisdom and benefits of regular exercise in sports. We have observed that physically active individual do not suffer proportionately from atherosclerosis, stroke, myocardial infraction, obesity, diabetes, stress, heart diseases and other chronically debilitating diseases as do their sedentary counterparts. Rudimentary exercise research has begun to yield the secret success of fitness training. Now it is established through different research about the heath benefits of regular physical activities including reduction of coronary heart disease, cancer, anxiety, depression and all cause death rates, maintenance of appropriate body weight and functional capacity and increase bone mineral content. Considering all these, we established Bangladesh Institute of Sports Sciences (BISS) which got the recognition by the different international organisations. Fitness, stamina and injury are always a big concern for Bangladeshi player. With proper application and implementation of sports sciences and medicine we can overcome these barriers and can boost the performance level. We always have the dream and endeavor that Bangladesh will hold a prestigious position in international sports arena. Lets work to make our dream come true. The writer is the President of Bangladesh Institute of Sports Sciences (BISS).
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