Impact of potential physiological changes due to COVID-19 home confinement on athlete health protection in elite sports: a call for awareness in sports programming

During COVID-19 home confinement, athletes are likely exposed to some level of detraining (i.e. the partial or complete loss of training-induced morphological and physiological adaptations), as a consequence of insufficient and/or inappropriate training stimuli. Such changes may result in impaired performance and increased injury risk if, upon restart, an appropriate sport-specific reconditioning cannot be granted. With this editorial, we aim to recommend extreme caution in sports programming after the COVID-19 emergency
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Bibliographic Details
Subjects:
Notations:biological and medical sciences training science
Tagging:Coronavirus
Published in:Sports Medicine
Language:English
Published: 2020
Online Access:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40279-020-01297-6
Volume:50
Pages:1417-1419
Document types:article
Level:advanced