Medical Care for Swimmers

Swimming is one of the most popular sports worldwide. Competitive swimming is one of the most watched sports during the Olympic Games. Swimming has unique medical challenges as a result of a variety of environmental and chemical exposures. Musculoskeletal overuse injuries, overtraining, respiratory...

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Autores principales: Khodaee, Morteza, Edelman, George T., Spittler, Jack, Wilber, Randall, Krabak, Brian J., Solomon, Daniel, Riewald, Scott, Kendig, Alicia, Borgelt, Laura M., Riederer, Mark, Puzovic, Vladimir, Rodeo, Scott
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2016
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4960281/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27512647
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40798-016-0051-2
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author Khodaee, Morteza
Edelman, George T.
Spittler, Jack
Wilber, Randall
Krabak, Brian J.
Solomon, Daniel
Riewald, Scott
Kendig, Alicia
Borgelt, Laura M.
Riederer, Mark
Puzovic, Vladimir
Rodeo, Scott
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Edelman, George T.
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Riederer, Mark
Puzovic, Vladimir
Rodeo, Scott
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description Swimming is one of the most popular sports worldwide. Competitive swimming is one of the most watched sports during the Olympic Games. Swimming has unique medical challenges as a result of a variety of environmental and chemical exposures. Musculoskeletal overuse injuries, overtraining, respiratory problems, and dermatologic conditions are among the most common problems swimmers encounter. Although not unique to swimming, overtraining is a serious condition which can have significant negative impact on swimmers’ health and performance. This review article is an attempt to discuss various issues that a medical team should consider when caring for swimmers.
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spelling pubmed-49602812016-08-08 Medical Care for Swimmers Khodaee, Morteza Edelman, George T. Spittler, Jack Wilber, Randall Krabak, Brian J. Solomon, Daniel Riewald, Scott Kendig, Alicia Borgelt, Laura M. Riederer, Mark Puzovic, Vladimir Rodeo, Scott Sports Med Open Review Article Swimming is one of the most popular sports worldwide. Competitive swimming is one of the most watched sports during the Olympic Games. Swimming has unique medical challenges as a result of a variety of environmental and chemical exposures. Musculoskeletal overuse injuries, overtraining, respiratory problems, and dermatologic conditions are among the most common problems swimmers encounter. Although not unique to swimming, overtraining is a serious condition which can have significant negative impact on swimmers’ health and performance. This review article is an attempt to discuss various issues that a medical team should consider when caring for swimmers. Springer International Publishing 2016-07-25 /pmc/articles/PMC4960281/ /pubmed/27512647 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40798-016-0051-2 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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