[Health care in sports by a team physician, especially in soccer].
The aim of health care in sports is to promote, to secure, and to recover general health of sportsmen, taking into consideration the sport's specific loads. In general, a (professional) sports club has a private (para)medical team consisting of a team physician, a physiotherapist, and an attendant or masseur. The team physician organizes the arrangements and the preventive, diagnostic, and curative tasks of the (para)medical team. In sports, sometimes medical emergencies occur, such as tongue bite, cardiac problems, hypoglycaemia in diabetes, anaphylactic shock, and hypo- as well hyperthermia. Sports injuries are caused by acute physical forces, chronic overload or repeated micro-traumas. High-incidence injuries in all sports are injuries of joints, bones, head, neck, back and abdomen. In case of medical emergencies, the team physician has to take action quickly and professionally. If sports injuries occur, the team physician has to provide first aid and to arrange a treatment and rehabilitation plan in consultation with the paramedical members of the team. During the treatment and rehabilitation, the team physician has to be of assistance to sportsmen. In arranging some of his tasks, a team physician can ask for assistance or help from a dentist or an oral and maxillofacial surgeon.
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Uit de afdeling Orthopedie, Kaakchirurgie en Bijzondere Tandheelkunde van het Erasmus Medisch Centrum in Rotterdam. c.debaat@erasmusmc.nl
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D001265:Athletic Injuries / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010819:Physician's Role; D012306:Risk; D012916:Soccer / Q000293:injuries*; D013178:Sports Medicine