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Adult-Diagnosed ADHD in Elite Athletes: Navigating TUE Requirements with Recent Diagnosis

A 20-year-old floorball player in the L-UPL has recently been diagnosed with ADHD. Her general practitioner referred her to a specialised psychologist for assessment and the general practitioner has now prescribed Concerta®. The next competition is in four weeks.

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Growth, Overtraining, and Immune Function in Adolescent Athletes: A Clinical Approach to the Developing Soccer Player

14 yo male soccer goalie comes to your sports medicine clinic because the second goalie of his team has grown much more during the last months and the coach has moved him to the bench, favoring the taller player.

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Managing Stress Fractures in Elite Female Gymnasts: Beyond the Obvious Diagnosis

23-year-old female athlete (artistic gymnastics, national A-squad) with persistent symptoms for the past 8 months in the anterior tibial region, which occur after, but not during training (especially on vault and floor exercises). She has repeatedly taken breaks from training for approximately 3 weeks.

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Managing Post-Concussion Syndrome in Young Athletes: Integrating the Amsterdam 2022 Consensus into Clinical Practice

A 16 year-old male rugby player suffers from headaches, tiredness and difficulty concentrating at school. The symptoms have been present for approximately 3 weeks and started 2-3 days after match where he suffered a hit in the mêlée. He continued playing, as he did not think much of it.

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The Athlete’s ECG

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is the leading non-traumatic cause of mortality in athletes under 35, most often due to inherited cardiomyopathies or primary electrical disorders that may remain silent until a fatal event. The 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) is the most accessible and cost-effective screening tool, yet its early use was hampered by poor specificity and high false-positive rates, mainly due to non-standardized interpretation and limited awareness of physiological adaptations.

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Hüftschmerzen beim jungen Sportler

Hip pain is a common clinical problem caused by a variety of orthopedic and non-orthopedic factors. While orthopedic causes such as osteoarthritis and femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) are well documented, non-orthopedic causes such as sports hernias, peritrochanteric pain syndrome, psoas syndrome, adductor strains, symphysitis and hamstring pathologies require more differentiated consideration.

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Sexual violence and sport: the essentials for action

L’ouvrage propose une approche pluridisciplinaire inédite sur les violences sexuelles dans le champ du sport en les intégrant aux données disponibles sur d’autres violences et dans d’autres domaines. Il s’adresse aux acteurs impliqués dans le monde du sport (entraîneurs, éducateurs, professionnels de santé) ainsi qu’aux sportifs et à leurs parents.

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Online Group Intervention with High-Performance Youth Athletes for Mental Skills and Safeguarding

Athlete safeguarding is fostered by empowering young athletes and providing them tools to reinforce their mental health, as a protective measure against potential maltreatment and to deal with competitive pressure. This study explores the impact on young athletes’ mental health of an online, group psychological intervention constructed on well-being factors theorized by Seligman.

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And You Association and its safeguarding activities

During Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympic Games (YOG), an activity to prevent and raise awareness of abuse in sport was offered to young athletes in the Olympic villages of Lausanne and St-Moritz. The activity, called And You...?, was not only educational, but also research-oriented. The data collected enabled a better understanding of how young athletes recognize and evaluate the different types of violence they may encounter in their sporting environment.

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Screening youth athletes – new SEMS sports pediatric pre-participation questionnaire

n order to possibly better match the needs of youth athletes, the SEMS pre-participation questionnaire has undergone some significant adaptations for this group of patients. One of the changes is the usage of the more personal first-name address in either of the Swiss national languages (German, French, Italian).