Modern elite (Olympic) sports are supported by long-term training systems designed to secure top competitive accomplishments in top-ranking international events. However, elite athletes are increasingly vulnerable to diseases due to the extreme physical and mental loads in the modern professional sports or erroneous/ mismanaged actions of the athletes in violation of the team physician`s or coach`s instructions. There is a wide variety of factors of negative effect on the athletes` health including extreme physical and mental stresses, highly competitive race for the records and negligent attitudes to the natural limitations of the human organism. Today it is commonly acknowledged by the sport communities that even new world champions are not always healthy and often diagnosed with symptoms of one or another serious pathology.
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