Edition of 2026 Sports Medicine · Recovery · Nutrition In English & 中文


The 2026 edition · IB SEHS first assessment

Sports medicine, written to be understood.

All 29 IB SEHS topics, fourteen textbook chapters and every exam that goes with them — each one written twice, in English and in 中文.

An athlete under a loaded barbell
Fig. 1Load, adapt, recover — the three verbs every chapter comes back to.
29IB SEHS topics, all of them
83sections with a drawn, interactive model
207pages of bilingual study pack
2languages, on every line
The method

Not a guide. A plan.

How the material is built, and why it sticks.

Most medical sites hand you facts and wave goodbye. Vitalité turns every chapter into a step — Foundations, Performance, Recovery, Mastery — so that what you read on Monday is what the quiz asks on Friday, and what the exam asks in May.

Every claim carries its evidence. Where researchers still disagree — on icing an injury, on the anabolic window — the chapter lays out both sides and says which way the data lean. You learn the answer, and how we know it.

And every line exists twice. Switch between English and 中文 with one tap; the terms, the questions and the explanations come with you.

“Science moves by debate, not decree.”The house rule
  1. Flashcards that remember for youSpaced-recall cards for all fourteen chapters, tracked card by card.
  2. Practice that adaptsQuestions get harder as you improve, so each session sits at your level.
  3. An assistant for the acheDescribe an injury and get practical guidance in seconds — never a diagnosis.
  4. Exams, with a certificateNPTE and 运动康复师 banks, and a certificate as you clear each module.
  5. Bilingual, properlyNot machine-swapped labels — every term and explanation, translated.
The plan

Fourteen chapters, four movements.

Each phase builds on the one before it — from first principles to full practice. Sign in to open any chapter.

IFoundations

Know the machine before you train it.

  1. The Body as a Machine1
  2. Nervous System2
  3. Cardiovascular System3
  4. Integumentary System4

IIPerformance

Train, fuel, adapt — the science of getting better.

  1. Training Principles5
  2. Sports Nutrition8
  3. Supplements & Evidence9

IIIRecovery

When it breaks: assess the damage, guide the healing.

  1. Injury & Healing6
  2. Recovery Science7
  3. Assessment12
  4. Emergency & Field Care14
Who it’s for

Chapter one is waiting.

For IB students, future physical therapists, 运动康复师 candidates — and anyone who wants to understand their own training. Free, and bilingual.