Sport Medicine and Professional SportSports Spectating and GamblingFacility Provision and Sports development

Jamie Gillum

Liam J Alford

Sport Medicine & Professional Sport

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Professional sports athlete’s will use sports medicine to recover from injury.

Some will get the treatment for free (but clubs have to pay for them).

Medicine professionals can teach athlete’s techniques to prevent injuries from occurring again, helping athlete’s stay safe and free of injury.

The nature of inter-relationship

Is the relationship beneficial?

Professional sport athletes that are injured will want to get back into the sport as quick as possible, so they would go into sports medicine to get treatment for their injury.

Can you provide statistical evidence of these benefits?

Sport athletes suffered more that 1 million sports injuries which cost over $18.700,000,000 (£11,908,206,945) in medical expenses in 1998. The highest numbers of sports-related injuries came from cycling, basketball, baseball, and running.

Estimated Number of Injuries

Sport and type of injury

529,837 Basketball - Cut hands, sprained ankles, broken legs, eye and forehead injuries.

490,434 Cycling - Feet caught in spokes, head injuries from falls, slipping while carrying bicycles, collisions with cars.

460,210 American Football - Fractured wrists, chipped teeth, neck strains, head lacerations, dislocated hips and jammed fingers.

275,123 ATVs, Mopeds, Minibikes - Riders of ATVs were frequently injured when they were thrown from vehicles. There were also fractured wrists, dislocated hands, shoulder sprains, head cuts and lumbar strains.

274,867 Baseball, Softball - Head injuries from bats and balls. Ankle injuries from running bases or sliding into them.

186,544 Football - Twisted ankles or knees after falls, fractured arms during games.

85,580 Lacrosse, Rugby, & other Ball Games - Head and facial cuts from getting hit by balls and sticks, injured ankles from falls.

http://www.scientificpsychic.com/fitness/sport_injuries.html

The following table of injuries is based on 2006 data compiled by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS).

Do areas actually work together to encourage joint use?

Medicine and pro sport do work together, but they don’t encourage joint use as you will never see sporting teams promoting medicine or people such as the club doctor or physio.

What has been the impact of the two components working together?

Medicine and pro sport help each other both ways as the care and knowledge from medical staff help prevent injuries and also help ‘heal’ sport athletes to carry on training and playing.

Meanwhile, money being spent by pro sportsmen/women provides funding to be used to research other techniques or exercises to help ‘heal’ sport athletes quicker.

When did this relationship first become common place

Before sports medicine became apart of professional sport, athletes that got injured playing their sport would not of had specifically trained doctors to help them with their sporting injuries. Whereas today, injured sport athletes can get treatment from specifically trained sport doctors that have had that extra training in injuries that most occur in professional sports.

Sport Spectating & Gambling

The nature of the inter-relationship

People who go and watch sport will sometimes put a bet on it just for fun and gamble.

For example, when you go and spectate horse racing, you may gamble on a horse a couple of times for fun. This may be a one off or you may do it every time you go.

Is the relationship beneficial?

People who go to spectate sports, may find it more interesting to put bets on the sport. Also, people who gamble on sports will be more likely to watch the sport to see if they win their bets.

Do areas actually work together to encourage joint use?Sport spectating and Gambling do work together, as you will find that now, almost every single sport stadiums will have a bookies in them and even around them as well.

Also, bookies out and around town will have a lot of TV's in the shop so people who place bets will be able to spectate the sport and see how their bets are going. This encourages people to either stay and watch the bets (which could lead to them making more bets if they keep winning, even if it’s small amounts), or could encourage them to buy tickets to the sport to keep tabs on their bets (which helps bring money to spectating and stadiums).

What has been the impact of the two components working together?With Sports spectating and Sports Gambling working together, they have increased the intensity and enjoyment for a percentage of the sporting community who like to wager a bet on the matches played etc.

Sports spectating attracts billions of viewers a year, this can encourage people to make bets and increase their income considerably.

Sports gambling also helps Spectating, the people who wager bets, gives people a reason to watch the sport to find out whether their bets have won.

When did this relationship first become common place?

Now-a-days, spectating and gambling sort of rely on each other to bring in a bigger crowd and more money into the area. Before these two started working together, the bookies wouldn’t be getting as much money as they do now, because they wouldn’t have any offers to promote bets for sports. For example, you wouldn’t see any bets advertised during half-time of a football match, whereas now they work together, they have live in-play bets.

Facility Provision & Sport Development

The nature of the inter-relationship

Sport developers will use facilities provided to help develop the younger generations in different sports.

For example, the FA will use facilities such as sport stadiums, training grounds and even parks or ball courts in communities.

Is the relationship beneficial?

With the access of new facilities, this gives the community a chance to create local youth teams to aid development for children who want to join, coaches can also be attracted to facilities and provide their time to help teach the children the basic skills and techniques in sport.

Can you provide statistical evidence of these benefits?

Facility type Required level of supply (based on 2007 population of 168,200)

Current level of provision

Current level of accessible provision

Surplus(+)/deficit(-) of accessible provision

Swimming pools 1756.67sq m 938sp m (of 25m x4 lane pools and above)

688sq m -1068.67sq m (equivalent to 5.1x4 lane x25m pools)

Sports halls (4 badminton court size)

48.26 badminton courts

35 courts (4 badminton court halls and above)

16 badminton courts (4+ courts)

-32.3 (equivalent to 8x 4 badminton court sports halls)

Fitness stations 433 stations (based on 12% participation rate (FIA))

561 210 stations -223 stations

Indoor bowls 9.28 rinks 14 rinks 14 +5

All weather turf pitches 7 (based on 1 ATP 25,000 population)

4 4 -3

Table 1 Supply and Demand Analysis 2008

Facility type Required level of supply by 2021 (based on 2021 population of 188,400)

Current level of provision (2007)

Current level of accessible provision (based on accessibility for pay and play usage)

Impact of 13% increase in participation over the life of the strategy i.e. to 2021 in terms of facility requirements

Swimming pools 2,066.02sq m (9.7 x 4 lane x 25m pools (212sq m))

938sq m (of 25m x 4 lane pools and above)

688sq m (of 25m x 4 lane pools and above)

2,211.63sq m (10.43 x 4 lane x 25m pools (212sq m))

Sports halls (4 badminton court size)

56.75 badminton courts (14.1 x 4 badminton court sports hall)

35 courts (4 badminton court halls and above)

16 badminton courts (4 + courts)

60.75 badminton courts (equivalent to 15.2 sports halls of 4 badminton court size)

Fitness stations 678 stations 561 210 stations 468 (based on a 0.5% increase year on year, which is the current trend)

Indoor bowls 10.4 14 rinks 14 +4 rinks

All weather turf pitches 8 4 4 -7.7

Table 2 increased population (to 2021) and participation impact

Do areas actually work together to encourage joint use?

Although sport development and facility provision work together, they don’t encourage joint use as they do not promote each other, like organisations that develop sport, such as the FA, won’t sell anything that has to do with facilities.

What has been the impact of the two components working together?

Ever since development and facility provision have started working together, the sporting governing bodies have been able to bring up youth players and give them higher standard training, as well as being able to get more people involved in sport.

Before they started working together, there may not have been any initiatives to get more playing sports, and the youth players wouldn’t have had good facilities to train in.

When did this relationship first become common place?

Since both have started working together, it has given the governing bodies of sport (like FA) facilities to develop the youth and professional sports, like youth centres, training centres etc.

Before these two started working together, governing bodies wouldn’t have had many developed facilities to train and develop youth sportsmen/women.

Conclusion

Our presentation shows how important all 3 (medicine & pro sport, spectating & gambling and development & facility) pairs are as they create more schemes to get more kids involved (development and facility), make sport more enjoyable for others watching (spectating and gambling) and as a whole make sport a benefit to lots of people.

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