Sports Cardiology in Europe: from the ancient Greek-Roman era to the present

Silvia Castelletti, Flavio D’Ascenzi, Michael Papadakis

Imagine walking 40 km crossing fields and villages along the sea. Imagine this to be your doctor’s prescription. Impossible? Not in the 5th century BC, when Herodicus recommended his patients walking from Athens to Megara. Herodicus, the ‘father’ of sports medicine, was a wrestling and boxing instructor and a physician who combined his medical and sports expertise to develop a new medicine for body health; strict diet and regular exercise...

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