Tracing the occurrence and development of sports health care should start with sports medicine. Sports medicine is an interdisciplinary subject formed by the mutual infiltration of medicine and sports science. It studies the influence of exercise on the body and discusses all medical problems related to exercise. It uses medical knowledge and means to guide sports, exercise and prevent diseases. It belongs to a comprehensive applied science, closely related to basic medicine, preventive medicine, medical medicine and rehabilitation medicine, and gradually formed with the development of sports and the need of scientific division of labor. The background of sports medicine can be traced back to 3000 years ago. At that time, China and other ancient civilizations had early medical gymnastics and massage techniques. The classic work of traditional Chinese medicine Huangdi Neijing (written around 400 BC) has mentioned the introduction (breathing gymnastics) and massage to treat diseases, and also used them to prevent diseases, keep fit and prolong life. At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Hua Tuo, the originator of surgery of traditional Chinese medicine, compiled Five Birds Play to exercise, pointing out that "if you are unwell, you should practice Five Birds Play, and when you stop sweating, you will feel relaxed and think about food at the same time." Later, Yijinjing, Baduanjin (gymnastics), Tai Ji Chuan and Wushu were widely spread among the people and became mass sports activities and competitive sports, which played a good health care role in strengthening physical fitness and preventing diseases. In the early 1920s, specialized sports medical organizations appeared in Switzerland (1922) and Germany (1924) in Europe. The International Federation of Sports Medicine (FIMS) was formally established on 1928. Medical sports were also used for medical treatment and prevention in the medicine of the first socialist country-the former Soviet Union. The former Soviet Union also published the first medical sports reference book "Sports in Soviet Sanatorium" in 1925. With the development of people's health care in the former Soviet Union, the medical exercise method has been widely developed in industrial and mining hospitals and sanatoriums, and it is closely related to the development of sports science in the former Soviet Union. The word "medical movement" was popularized in the medical literature of the former Soviet Union after the publication of the first guide book on medical movement (1929). After the Great Patriotic War and the Second World War, the medical rehabilitation of thousands of sick, injured and disabled people in the former Soviet Union became an urgent task for medical workers. Because the superior social system has promoted the all-round development of industry, agriculture and science, medical care, culture, education and sports have also attracted much attention, creating good conditions for the combination of medical care and sports. Basic research such as sports physiology and anatomy and applied research such as sports injury prevention and treatment promote each other, resulting in more detailed specialties, forming sports health care, constructing the basic framework of "sports medicine" and gradually incorporating it into the courses of physical education colleges and medical colleges. 65438-0955, medical sports experts from the former Soviet Union came to Beijing to give lectures. They used terms such as "sports doctor supervision and medical sports" and "sports medical supervision and medical sports". From 65438 to 0958, China sent a delegation to Moscow to attend the 12th Congress of the International Federation of Sports Medicine, which was renamed "Sports Medicine" after returning home. Almost at the same time, the former Soviet Union published the monograph Sports Medicine, which was translated into Chinese on 1959 and published by People's Sports Publishing House. This marks the birth of a new frontier discipline-sports medicine. China Sports Medicine Association was founded in 1978, and was approved as a member by FIMS in the same year. In recent years, with the development of modern science such as medicine and sports science, according to the improvement of competitive sports level, the extensive development of mass sports activities and the needs of the sick and disabled for sports medical rehabilitation, the connotation of sports medicine has been enriched, enriched and developed, and it has become a main course of physical education.
During the period of 1982, the Ministry of Education and Higher Education Press organized physical education teachers in some normal schools in China. Referring to the sports medicine textbook used by the former Institute of Physical Education, they compiled a textbook suitable for normal universities-sports health care. The task of sports health care is to provide scientific basis for physical education teaching, training and competition by studying the physical development, health status and training level of sports participants; To study whether the organization and methods of physical education teaching, sports, training and competition conform to the physical characteristics of sports participants and provide medical guidance; To study various external factors affecting the health of sports participants and formulate corresponding health measures; To study the occurrence law and prevention methods of sports injuries; To study the methods of fitness, disease prevention, bodybuilding and medical rehabilitation for the sick and disabled through physical exercise, so as to promote the physical development and health of sports participants more effectively, give full play to their sports potential, improve their technical level as soon as possible, speed up the rehabilitation of the injured, enhance the physical quality of the whole nation, and improve their quality of life and comprehensive national strength. The content of sports health care is very rich, which is closely related to many aspects of medicine and promotes each other, including sports health, sports nutrition, sports medical supervision, sports disease prevention, sports trauma, sports rehabilitation (medical sports and massage therapy) and so on. The development of sports health care needs to draw nutrition from the new achievements of basic medicine, preventive medicine, medicine and rehabilitation medicine, and at the same time constantly put forward new topics and new requirements for them to promote the all-round progress and improvement of medicine.