PlayBook launched in Brazil to evaluate defientes physical sports practice

Guideline of Sport and Exercise. Cardiac Evaluation and Disability was launched on Saturday (28) during the 68th Brazilian Congress of Cardiology in Rio de Janeiro.

The first set of standards to assess the conditions of people with disabilities for sports, worldwide, is the result of three years of study team of 40 specialists in cardiology and sports medicine of the Brazilian Society of Sports Medicine and Brazilian Society of Cardiology (SBC). Invite people who were living with heart athletes with competitive sport and level of exercise intensity, the cardiologist said Nabil Ghorayeb, editor of the booklet.

Put an item unheard worldwide, which is the evaluation of the Paralympics, which never had anything related to them. How is growing their participation in world competitions, we made sure to have a chapter on how to prepare and how to evaluate a paralympic said Nabil.

The document is expected to be updated every two or three years, being used by physicians to guide health professionals on tests to be ordered to assess and monitor the progress of patients. The manual conducts evaluations from three distinct groups. In the first group are the guidelines for evaluation prior to the people who will carry sports, enroll in gyms or even use physical activity as leisure. The second group is focused on diseases that kill or that complicate the lives of people during physical activities. In the latter group are the rules for evaluating the Paralympic athletes.

To the doctor, with the proximity of the World Cup and the Olympics should increase the number of people who will get the sports activities, so increases the importance of developing the guideline. It will be easy to follow a uniform conduct. The doctors did tests that they thought should be done. Now is uniform. And the Congress itself will discuss the document and who have questions may present, he added, stating that the revision of standards, to include medical advances will be made in 2015.

The director of the Division of Clinical Research Laboratory, Simulation and Training in Emergency Cardiovascular Heart Institute (Incor), Hospital das Clinicas, University of São Paulo, Sergio Timerman, said the concern is that many people in the search for a life healthier, start exercising, without seeking an expert before for a medical evaluation. Find a healthy life means also find out if the person is healthy for a physical activity, he said.

The doctor warned of the cases of sudden death occurring during exercise without a preliminary assessment of the person's physical condition. In this initial assessment can detect the risk or not that person do an activity that, rather than improving the quality of life, leading to a sudden death, explained.

Sergio Timerman argued that gyms always make physical tests on admission of new members. There are gyms facilitating the entry of people with no analysis said.

With information from the Agency Brazil

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