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NISMAT web site - Welcome to the Nicholas Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma
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Dr. James Nicholas, Founding Director
Sports medicine today owes much of its spectacular growth to the visionary ideas of James A. Nicholas, M.D., the founding director of the Nicholas Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma (NISMAT) at Lenox Hill Hospital. In a brilliant medical career spanning over five decades, Dr. Nicholas has not only formulated many of the concepts central to an understanding of the body's reaction to injury, but he has given us an understanding of how the body, as a linkage system, adapts to physical stress imposed by exercise, illness and other conditions.
Over a quarter century ago, at Lenox Hill Hospital, Dr. Nicholas founded the Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma, the first hospital-based institute of its kind in the world, as a research and clinical center devoted to the treatment and prevention of sports injuries. Since its inception in 1973, NISMAT has been, through its research, a major contributor to sports medicine and its allied disciplines, including physiology, nephrology, cardiology, physical therapy, pediatrics, basic science, and other areas.
In 1960, as team physician for the New York Titans, which later became the New York Jets, Dr. Nicholas became interested in the causes and treatment of athletic injuries. Working with athletes convinced him that sports medicine was far more than simply treating a sprain on the football field. How treating elite athletes could translate to real life was foremost on Dr. Nicholas's mind. As a team physician, he treated bone and joint injuries; his goal was to understand their mechanisms as well. Looking beyond the injury itself, Dr. Nicholas sought the causes. Did the athlete have hidden pathology that caused the injury? How did athletic performance affect pathology? From these questions Dr. Nicholas developed definitions, which are still being used today, of performance factors in sports.
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