How to prevent chronic fatigue in sport, which self-monitoring tools work, which tests a doctor orders and for which symptoms to see them immediately. A practical editorial overview.
ReadOvertraining: how overreaching and overtraining syndrome differ, which load mistakes lead to them, which biological mechanisms are discussed and how drugs mask or provoke the state.
Prevention of overtraining through periodisation and monitoring, diagnosis as the exclusion of other illnesses, the role of questionnaires and the two-bout test, warning symptoms and returning to training.
Tendinitis and tendinopathy in athletes: why tendons cannot keep up with muscles, which load mistakes harm most and how fluoroquinolones, corticosteroids and anabolic steroids affect the risk.
Tendinitis: early signs, prevention through strength exercises and load control, clinical and ultrasound diagnosis, the pain-monitoring model and symptoms with which to see a doctor.
Muscle tear in athletes: classification of injuries, the eccentric mechanism, the role of fatigue, previous injuries and load, and how anabolic steroids, statins and painkilling injections affect the risk.
Muscle tear: how to prevent the injury (Nordic exercises, warm-up programmes), what to do in the first days, how a doctor makes the diagnosis with ultrasound and MRI, when urgent help is needed and how to return to sport.
Intervertebral disc herniation in athletes: the structure of the disc, how flexion under load damages the annulus fibrosus, which sports are in the risk zone, the role of genetics, smoking, anabolic steroids and painkillers.
Intervertebral disc herniation: prevention in training, typical symptoms of radicular pain, neurological examination and when an MRI is needed, conservative and surgical treatment, warning signs of cauda equina syndrome.
Chronic fatigue in athletes: how an imbalance of load and recovery, sleep, energy deficit, iron and pharmacology (stimulants, AAS, hormones) form persistent exhaustion. An editorial overview.
How to prevent chronic fatigue in sport, which self-monitoring tools work, which tests a doctor orders and for which symptoms to see them immediately. A practical editorial overview.
Overtraining: how overreaching and overtraining syndrome differ, which load mistakes lead to them, which biological mechanisms are discussed and how drugs mask or provoke the state.
