Introduction
Welcome to the 8th edition of the FINA
Sports Medicine Newsletter!
As you know, the FINA Sports Medicine
Newsletter is an electronic publication of the
FINA Sports Medicine Committee (SMC). This
publication can be received via email or
accessed via the FINA Sports Medicine Web
Pages on the FINA website ( www.fina.org). The
objective of the FINA Sports Medicine
Newsletter is to enhance communication with
the aquatic health care team around the world
and to promote education in the field of
aquatic sports medicine and sport science.
This edition of the FINA Sports Medicine
will review the following topics:
- The new SMC for term of 2013-2017
- FINA Sports Medicine Video - Prevention
of Shoulder Injuries in Aquatics Sports
- 17th FINA World Sports Medicine
Congress – Instanbul, Turkey, December 2012.
Bleasdale Memorial Lecture - The Olympics
and Protecting the Health of the Athlete -
Dr Richard Budgett
- Medical Corner of Aquatics World
Magazine: Mental health and the aquatic
athlete – An overview of sport psychiatry
- FINA Sports Medicine Updates : Periodic
Health Evaluation
- WADA updates
The
new SMC for the period 2013-2017
The first meeting of the FINA newly appointed
Bureau for the period 2013-2017 took place in
Barcelona (ESP), and was highlighted by several
decisions including nomination of the FINA
Committees for the period 2013-2017.
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Prevention
of Shoulder Injuries in Aquatics
This video is a tool that was developed to be
used by all aquatic athletes to decrease the
incidence of shoulder injuries in aquatic
sports. It was first released at the London,
Olympics, July 2012. The target audience is
athletes, coaches, team physicians and other
members of the health care team in the athlete
entourage. For more information on the video
and to watch the video please go to our website
sportsmed.fina.org
Bleasdale
Memorial Lecture - The Olympics and Protecting
the Health of the Athlete - Dr Richard Budg
Dr Richard Budgett, the new Medical and
Scientific Director of the International
Olympic Committee presented the 2012 Bleasdale
Memorial Lecture entitled “The Olympics and
Protecting the Health of the Athlete”. His
address outlined the health focus of the IOC
both at Olympic Games and throughout sport and
was well received.
See this lecture on our youtube channel
Mental
Health and the Aquatic Athlete – “An Overview
of Sport Psychiatry”
The mind-body relationship has long been
recognised as an important component of
overall health and wellbeing. With the aquatic
athlete facing ever increasing levels of both
physical and mental stress, by being better
aware of an athlete’s mental health, one can
see an enhancement in performance outcomes.
Although the public has great interest for
athletic achievements, the emotional strains
brought on by such “heroic moments” have
obtained little attention until the last two
decades. More recently there has been an
increasing interest in the interface between
sport and mental health. This has led to the
origin of the medical sub-specialty, Sport
Psychiatry.
Sport Psychiatry made its defining entry
into the scientific literature in May of 1992,
in the American Journal of Psychiatry, in a
paper titled “An Overview of Sport Psychiatry”
by Dr. Daniel Begel. As a medical specialty,
psychiatry has been recognised since the
middle of the nineteenth century. Dr. Begel
defined sport psychiatry as the implementation
of psychiatric knowledge and treatment methods
to the world of sport. Over time there have
been more and more papers in the scientific
literature and presentations at international
scientific conferences on the subject. Recent
research shows that the prevalence of mental
health issues in athletes to be as high as in
the normal population. In the past it was
believed that because athletes are,
“emotionally very strong people” mental
disorders did not exist in athletes at the
elite level.
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FINA
Sports Medicine Updates: Periodic Health
Evaluation
The FINA SMC recommends a periodic health
evaluation for all aquatic athletes who are
members of National Teams. You can read more
about the PHE and download the form here
WADA
Updates
FINA is currently well-represented on WADA
Committees and we are in a privileged position
to make comment on several important issues.
1. The Prohibited List:
Prof Andrew Pipe is Chair of the List
Committee and has reminded all aquatic
stakeholders of the opportunity to comment on
the proposed changes to the List that will
come into effect on 1 January 2014. There have
been few significant changes to the current
prohibited list and the sentiments of the FINA
fraternity have already been presented in an
official submission.
2. Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE):
Prof David Gerrard currently chairs the
WADA TUE Expert Group and has endorsed the
need for all physicians supporting TUE
applications on behalf of athletes to ensure
that these meet the required standards. Dr.
Margo Mountjoy is also a member of this
committee. TUE applications that are not
supported by thorough clinical evidence will
be denied and in the interests of our
athletes, physicians are encouraged to ensure
that the TUE guidelines are met. Information
to assist in the TUE application process may
be downloaded from the WADA website.
3. World Conference on Doping in Sport:
This critical meeting is to be hosted in
Johannesburg on 13-15 November 2013 and will
attract world-wide attention as the forum for
approving the new WADA Code. This document
that has undergone international review over
the past 18 months forms the basis of all
anti-doping strategy and FINA has been a key
signatory to the Code that applies to all
aquatic disciplines.
4. Athlete Biological Passport (ABP):
This WADA initiative enables international
federations to build a haematological profile
of its elite athletes. FINA has demonstrated
leadership in this regard by obtaining samples
from a large cohort of athletes who competed
recently at the Barcelona World Championships.
The process received the co-operation of
athletes and their coaches and the ABP is
another important tool in the fight against
drug misuse in sport.
FINA
Sports Medicine Newsletter Sign-up feature
The FINA SMC would like to remind you of the
FINA Sports Medicine Newsletter “sign-up”
feature. For those interested in receiving the
FINA Sports Medicine Newsletter, a “sign-up”
option to receive the publication can be found
on the FINA Sports Medicine Web Pages
(sportsmed.fina.org). Please inform your
colleagues, coaches and allied health care
professionals of this new option.
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