British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine
The British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine is the British professional association for sports medicine in the United Kingdom.
History
It was founded in 1952 at Westminster Hospital, as the British Association of Sport Medicine. From the 1960s it worked with the British Olympic Association.In the 1960s it looked at the medical ethics of the sport of boxing, due to the serious brain injuries, with doctors at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital. It brought in new rules for boxing in January 1964 with the British Boxing Board of Control. If a match was suspended from a knockout or a boxer was counted out, that boxer could not compete for at least 21 days. It worked with the Amateur Boxing Association, now known as England Boxing. In 1969 the Royal College of Physicians had found that one in six boxers would later suffer long-term neurological damage.
It worked heavily with the detection of unethical substances that would possibly enhance performance, and sports injuries.
A similar organisation, the British Association of Sports Science, was founded in 1984.