VARIA
IMPORTANCE
OF PRE
–
COMPETION SCREENING OF FOOTBALL
Sead
Malicevic,
Nenad Dikic
Partizan
Belgrade Football Club, Humska 1, Belgrade, Serbia
INTODUCTION. Responsibility of
every football club in Serbia is to organize and perform regular
medical exams of the players at least twice a year, in accord to
regulations given by UEFA and Football Association of Serbia. These
exams comprise, but are not limited to complete internal medicine exam,
tests of biochemical and hematologic parameters and urine check,
anthropometry, ergo-test, ophthalmologic, ORL and dental exam.
MATERIAL/METHODS.
Partizan Belgrade Football Club performs medical exams four times a
year. Two of these are regular checks, as described. Two other, control
exams are limited to biochemical and hematologic tests. During last
five years period, a total of 309 regular medical checks and 286
control tests were made. Tests were always carried out in medical
institutions which have the best organization, capacity and equipment
for such demand.
RESULTS. During five years period, we have
found a total of 154 situations that required additional tests and
further medical investigation. These situations include echocardiograph
signs of myocardium hypertrophy (96), exercise induced asthma (2),
paroxysmal supra-ventricular tachycardia (1), SVES and VES (21),
various forms of conduction problems (19), hypertensive response to
exercise (12), ventricular septum defect (1), and also ophthalmologic
(1) and neurologic problem (1). Also, in control biochemical and
hematologic tests, we have found a total of 70 situations that required
additional examination and amendment in training program as well as
nutrition and supplementation plans, 12 of which were defined as onset
of overtraining syndrome. Other problems found during control tests
include early signs of sports anaemia (36 cases), iron
depletion/deficit (21 cases) and positive HBsAg finding (1). During 5
years there were only three cases of time-limited license for
participation in competition, which have been studied properly and
followed closely.
CONCLUSIONS. Thanks to medical screening we
are in position to early discover and react in all the situations of
health hazard, and prevent development of a serious problem which can
result in long absence from competition or even end of sport carrier.
KEY
WORDS: pre-competition, medical screening, football.
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