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surgeon, I have been attending to<br />
injured athletes at sports medicine<br />
speciality centres across the globe<br />
and as a passionate rower myself, I<br />
knew very much what our country<br />
lacked,” said Dr Arumugam, in a recent<br />
interview with Future Medicine.<br />
The idea for developing such a<br />
specialised facility for sports testing<br />
and training in India materialised when<br />
Prof. Tim Noakes of the University of<br />
Cape Town visited India four years ago,<br />
added Dr Arumugam,<br />
who has specialised in both<br />
medicine and surgery with American<br />
Board Diplomate in Internal Medicine<br />
and M.S degree in Orthopaedics. He<br />
has also received an Honorary FRCS<br />
award from the Royal College of<br />
Surgeons.<br />
SRMC and University of Cape Town,<br />
which runs one of the world’s best<br />
sports science centre, has signed an<br />
academic and research collaboration<br />
for this unique centre in Chennai.<br />
Commissioned in 2014, CSS aims<br />
at nurturing sports and physical<br />
activity among Indian sportspersons<br />
and aspirants to enhance their<br />
performance and health through<br />
specialised educational, research and<br />
training modules. As a research hub, it<br />
also focuses on exercise science and<br />
sports medicine, and on disseminating<br />
and applying the knowledge<br />
As a consultant<br />
arthroscopy<br />
surgeon, I have<br />
been attending to<br />
injured athletes at<br />
sports medicine<br />
speciality centres<br />
across the globe<br />
and as a passionate<br />
rower myself, I<br />
knew very much<br />
what our country<br />
lacked.<br />
Dr Arumugam<br />
through its services.<br />
“This will, in turn, help spread<br />
the knowledge of sports medicine<br />
in the country and also advance the<br />
sports-related medical care to athletes<br />
through research and best-in-class<br />
services to our athletes at a fraction<br />
of the cost of foreign centres,” added<br />
Arumugam.<br />
But he laments that the<br />
concept hasn’t fully got into the<br />
conventional mindset here.<br />
Infrastructure<br />
The 1.6 lakh square feet centre, which<br />
was conceived and designed on the<br />
lines of one of the world’s best sports<br />
science centres -- the University of<br />
Cape Town, has all the necessary<br />
infrastructure and international expertise<br />
needed for grooming the athletes.<br />
According to Dr. K A Thiagarajan,<br />
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