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European prevention position statement 2024 by EFSMA: sports medicine as lifelong health promotion and health care
The medical specialty of “Sports Medicine”, which has just been created in the EU, embodies the basis of comprehensive prevention. Preventive health care means: multidisciplinary and professional cooperation between sports medicine, nutritional medicine, lifestyle and environmental medicine, other medical disciplines as required and the integration of other health sciences.
However, sports medicine has a special role to play as an important component of preventive medicine: sports medicine is “the” preventive medicine: exercise, physical activity, training and sport have a pleiotropic effect. They are a natural “polypill” and therefore have a positive influence on all organs and organ systems, eating habits, mindset, mental balance and stress resistance.
Movement is life, life is movement
“Energizing the society through Sports Medicine – active lifestyle, health maintenance, physical fitness, exercise prescriptions, injury prevention, better ageing.”
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The Meeting of the EFSMA Executive Committee has been held on 20th April 2024 in Istanbul, Turkey.
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The Meeting of the EFSMA Executive Committee has been held on 22nd July 2023 in Rome, Italy.
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The SARS- Coronavirus-2 (COVID-19) pandemic led to a disruption of organised sport. Sports activities have now been allowed, as individual sports under certain hygienic conditions and a distance of at least 2 meters is recommended.
With regard to the resumption of sport, the main concern is the risk of infection both by a player passing on the COVID-19 virus to others or by becoming infected themselves through physical contact where proximity to other athletes is unavoidable.
The restrictions and requirements vary from country to country and region to region, nonetheless it must be clarified, on the one hand, which groups require a sports medical examination before resuming sport and what that examination should include, and on the other hand what precautionary measures must be taken with regard to the examinations and the examination equipment.
The aim of this statement is to provide practical recommendations based on the current evidence. These recommendations could be considered as a foundation for further evidence-based guidelines as the knowledge regarding COVID-19 advances.
