ABSTRACT
Keywords: aptitude diagnosis, Austria, health stabilization, performance diagnosis, rehabilitation, resources, sports medicine.
A training program tailored to adaptive laws should provide maximum enhancement of an athlete’s performance. Since several factors determine a human being’s maximum psychophysical performance, this process needs to be supported through application of several scientific disciplines. Sports medicine is a discipline of special significance in this context. On the one hand, sports medicine is responsible for ensuring stable health as a prerequisite for optimal training. On the other, based on the outcome of physiological and biological research, sports medicine can provide new inputs for controlling the training process and enhancing athletic performance. Throughout the entire range of sport, i.e. from the child who engages in occasional games to highperformance athletes, particular medical disciplines and specialties vary in degree of importance, depending on the topic of study or the question being investigated. Research of this nature is focused on general clinical, endocrinological, immunological and molecular biological findings as well as on questions concerning the apparatus of posture and locomotion (the musculoskeletal system). On these foundations, performance physiology and molecular biology occupy a central role in controlling and monitoring the training process as well as in handling adaptive processes which are a result of these.
