Die Abkürzung DHEA steht für Dehydroepiandrosteron, eine Hormonvorstufe für männliche und weibliche Sexualhormone. Die sogenannte «Anti-Aging-Medizin» liegt im Trend, und Hormonkuren verheissen ein Leben mit mehr Freude und weniger Beschwerden. Immer mehr Fachpersonen empfehlen ihren Patientinnen und Patienten DHEA – oft mit weitreichenden Konsequenzen!
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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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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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The annual Swiss Sports Physiotherapy Association Symposium (SSPA) is always a highlight for the year. Our dear friends at SSPA have made the decision many years ago to organize their symposium in English only, in order to invite some of the best international researchers and clinicians in the field of sport medicine rehabilitation and training.
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Elle avait été annoncée, et elle s’est réalisée. En avril dernier [1] il avait été annoncé que, dans le cadre d’une collaboration francophone, la SEMS et Le Réseau Santé & Sport allaient se déplacer chez nos voisins français au congrès conjoint de la Société Française de Traumatologie du Sport (SFTS) et de la Société Française de Médecine de l’Exercice et du Sport (SFMES) à Toulon (F).
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Participation in physical activity has increased in intensity at a young age. Due to their growth with hormonal changes and influences, young people are prone to spinal problems. It is therefore of great importance that trainers, paediatricians and parents are familiar with the sport-specific movement sequences and take measures to prevent potential problems.
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The preparticipation screening (PPE) of children and adolescents is basically not different in structure from the SPU for adult athletes. However, there are some special features that will be briefly described in this article. First of all, we are dealing with growing athletes.
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Orienteering is a combination of cognitive and physical capabilities of cardiovascular and musculoskeletal system. However, especially for juniors, there is often the risk of running too fast compared to map-reading skills, which ends up in search actions. This yields directly to the aim of the study to analyze the steadiness of speed for course times in junior orienteering runners.
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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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This study investigated whether instructors applied safety recommendations from the Swiss national programme for sports promotion, called Youth+Sports (Y+S), in training courses/camps with young people. Moreover, we analysed factors that affected the awareness and application of those recommendations. The analysis was based on an online survey of Y+S instructors and Y+S experts (responsible for training instructors), as well as interviews with the education managers of sport associations.
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