Leading UK health information website www.medicdirect.co.uk which currently supplies many of the leading Internet Service ’s and broadcasters including Tiscali, NTL, GMTV and AOL with much of their health channel content, have launched a new sports health and fitness channel www.medicdirectsport.com .
Medicdirectsport provides a unique sports health and fitness resource, providing users with access to online sports fitness information.
This unique resource is headed by Professor Michael Gleeson BSc PhD, Professor of Exercise Biochemistry at the University of Loughborough’s School of Sport and Exercise Sciences and David Morgan, a Consultant Surgeon at Birmingham Heartlands Teaching Hospital.
The channel provides dedicated content, devised and written by Medicdirect’s team of sports medics, physiotherapists, dieticians, teaching hospital consultants and GP’s, across the whole spectrum of health, wellbeing, sports and fitness. The service also has over 200 exercise videos providing comprehensive instruction as to physical exercise and fitness drills.
Medicdirect Medical Director David Morgan said the new service offered “a wealth of traditional health information as well as radical and unique sports and fitness content and tools to supplement medical advice.”
Included within the new content offering is exercise theory, sports nutrition, athletic training and sports injuries as well as a range of tools and calculators encouraging interactivity with the users.