Sports and Exercise Medicine: Present and Future

Sports and exercise medicine is a newly emerging medical speciality in association with sports and physical education. As the lifestyle of the average population has changed drastically with sedentary type and lack of physical exercise, thus, inviting various lifestyle-related diseases in society, this speciality has been gaining tremendous popularity in medical practices. This discipline is a combination of sports medicine and exercise medicine (therapy). Clinical and interventional physiology which is the resultant of these two components, plays an important role in injury management and for the promotion of health and wellbeing, devoid of any side effects. In the present editorial, with the objectives, an attempt has been made to discuss the present scenario of the discipline of sports and exercise medicine along with its future prospects, as in spite of its numerous benefits, not enough attention has been given to the holistic improvement of the healthcare system.