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Rétrospective annuelle de Swiss Sport Integrity et modifications apportées à la Liste des interdictions 2024

Le lancement d’un service national et indépendant de signalement et d’enquête sur les manquements à l’éthique et les abus répond à un besoin fort du sport suisse. Après avoir reçu 264 signalements au cours de la première année, Swiss Sport Integrity s’attend à recevoir près de 400 signalements de manquements potentiels à l’éthique ou d’abus d’ici la fin de l’année.

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Jahresrückblick Swiss Sport Integrity und Änderungen der Dopingliste 2024

Mit der Lancierung der nationalen, unabhängigen Melde- und Untersuchungsstelle für Ethikverstösse und Missstände wurde ein starkes Bedürfnis im Schweizer Sport erkannt. Nachdem im ersten Jahr bereits 264 Meldungen bei Swiss Sport Integrity eingegangen sind, werden bis Ende Jahr voraussichtlich gegen 400 Meldungen zu potenziellen Ethikverstössen oder Missständen erwartet.

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Bridging the Gap: Artificial Intelligence in Sports Medicine and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation

As a medical doctor deeply entrenched in the world of sports medicine and musculoskeletal rehabilitation, I find myself at a crossroads, wrestling with the immense potential and inherent skepticism surrounding the use of modern AI tools in my field. The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) large language models into physiotherapy and medicine has undoubtedly brought about transformative opportunities and efficiencies, but it also raises critical questions and concerns.

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Prävalenz der Schulwegmobilität und des Spielens im Freien bei Kindergartenkindern in der Schweiz

Outdoor play and the daily way to school are considered as essential fields of experience for children to satisfy their motor needs, to gain increasing mobility and to establish social contacts. Although the kindergarten age is a central socialisation context in the active exploration of the environment, there have so far been only a few empirical findings on such activities of young children in Switzerland.

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Has COVID-19 Changed the Future of Physiotherapy?

Life post Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) will not be same for anyone and like so many professions it will be a challenging time for physiotherapists and health care providers. A lot of practitioners are going through economic challenges because of the imposed lock down in various countries. As the situation recovers and more people resume their working life, we physiotherapists should be more concerned now while attending to our clients. As front-line practitioners, physiotherapists are more prone to have direct contact with patients affected with COVID-19.

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Exercise addiction – cases, possible indicators and open questions

While addictive disorders involving substances are well researched, the field of behavioral addictions, including exercise addiction, is in its infancy. Although exercise addiction is not yet recognized as a psychiatric disorder, evidence for the burden it imposes has gained attention in the last decade. Characterised by a rigid exercise schedule, the prioritization of exercise over one’s own health, family and professional life, and mental wellbeing, and extreme distress when exercise is halted, the phenomenon shares many feature with substance use disorders.

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Muscle dysmorphia

The current ideal of beauty consists of a strong shift towards physical activity and aims to develop a muscular, athletic physique. While the athletic ideal for women has been a product of recent years, the muscular ideal for men has been observed since the 1970s. Increasing pressure to achieve this muscular ideal is associated with both body dissatisfaction and a strong desire to increase muscularity. In extreme terms, the pursuit of a muscular body and its associated behaviours, such as strength training and dieting, may lead to the development of muscle dysmorphia.

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LGBTQI and sports – future implications for sports psychiatry

LGBTQI 1) people and especially transgender, non-binary and intersex people have a longstanding history of discrimination when it comes to sports. While the media focuses on the discussion whether transgender, non binary, and intersex people should be allowed to compete in elite amateur and professional sports at all, the majority of transgender, non-binary and intersex athletes are facing obstacles in everyday sports beyond cis and dyadic peoples’ imagination.

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Strong, silent and stigmatized

The global lifetime prevalence rate of all image and performance enhancing drugs (IPED) is unknown, however it is 6.4% in men an 1.6% in women for anabolic androgenic steroids (1). IPED are widely used in the bodybuilding scene and have found a bigger audience through social media platforms.

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Mental health in competitive sports in times of COVID-19

Changes in public life, isolation, quarantine, and associated constraints within usual routine, as well as anxieties and concerns, are just some of many examples of psychiatric burdens caused by the COVID-19 pandemic (1). Not only the general population, but professional athletes in particular, are exposed to these challenges, as professional sports came to an abrupt halt upon occurrence of COVID-19.