Clinical Practice and Personalized Assessment in Sports Medicine

Dear Colleagues,

Scientific evidence widely points to the efficacy of physical exercise to achieve a reduction in general mortality, especially cardiovascular-related mortality. It is also known that physical exercise, especially high-intensity exercise and in susceptible individuals, may be related to an increased risk of cardiovascular disorders, mainly sudden death (SD). Different organizations and international medical societies have proposed conducting a medical assessment prior to the practice of physical exercise, not only to assess athletes at risk of suffering SD but also to perform sports health screening. Although the need to carry out this assessment is widely acknowledged, there is currently no universally accepted consensus, mainly between European and American organizations, regarding how to implement it and what the content of this assessment should be, with different types of protocols available. A health assessment is a necessary medical act for anyone who intends to participate in a scheduled physical activity or a sport, whether recreational or competitive. This health assessment is necessary whenever high-performance athletes are involved. It is a more complex and costly assessment than that carried out in amateur sports since this population is subjected to more intense and demanding physical activity, besides significant public and media exposure; it is thus more than justified. In recent years, with the development of the Internet, intelligent hardware, and big data, wearable technology and personalized medicine has developed rapidly in various fields such as health care, education and culture, social networking, military and sport. Some of these technologies are becoming part of people’s daily life in the form of accessories such as smart watches, smart bracelets, armbands, and glasses. In the field of health care, wearable devices in the form of portable medical or health electronic devices that can be directly worn on the body can be used to perceive, record, analyze, regulate, and intervene to maintain health and can even be used to treat diseases with the support of various technologies for identification, sensing, connection, cloud services, and storage. In this Special Issue, we welcome both original papers, systematic reviews, narrative reviews and meta-analyses with a specific focus on sports medicine.

Dr. Fiorenzo Moscatelli
Prof. Dr. Giovanni Messina
Dr. Rita Polito
Guest Editors

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