Sports Medicine sessions held for SCF trainees

About 200 young trainees got a feel of what fitness means during the audio-visual workshop

Hyderabad: Prominent physiotherapist Supraja conducted sports medicine sessions for the trainees of the Sports Coaching Foundation (Masab Tank) here.

About 200 young trainees got a feel of what fitness means during the audio-visual workshop.

K Sai Baba, founder-secretary of SCF and former Ranji player, appreciated the initiative of Supraja and hoped the children would benefit from the sessions during which the real objective of sports medicine in finding talent that would be most suitable for any given sport was emphasised.

“Before understanding what a training schedule is, we will elaborate on certain principles and basic facts in sports medicine. The human body is many a time likened to a machine which burns fuel and produces heat and movement. A machine doesn’t adapt to abnormal stress as the body is exposed to certain stress in a controlled way,” Supraja explained.

“Poor people adapt themselves to a diet low in the requisite calorie content and their lifestyle and cannot climb a staircase without getting breathless, often falling prey to various cardio-respiratory disorders,” she said. “So, essentially, sports medicine helps the athletes to enhance their performances,” she added.

The SCF will continue to host similar motivational sessions for the trainees, Sai Baba said.