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What is the recommended return to sports protocol for young athletes after COVID-19 infection or mRNA vaccination to prevent myocarditis?
What is the recommended return to sports protocol for young athletes after COVID-19 infection or mRNA vaccination to prevent myocarditis?
Provides practical recommendations for young athletes returning to sports after COVID-19 infection or vaccination to mitigate the rare risk of myocarditis.
Children and young people should be physically active as much and as often as possible. This applies always and especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to massive restrictions in the everyday lives of children and young people. Following hygiene and distance rules, vaccination and staying away from sports with typical SARS-CoV-2 symptoms can minimize the occurrence of infection foci and the transmission of SARS-CoV-2. However, if an infection does occur, there is only a low risk of serious secondary/accompanying diseases, in particular the occurrence of myocarditis with a possible fatal course. An optimal “return to sports” should therefore be adapted to the severity of the disease and applied symptom-oriented. Even after vaccination with an mRNA vaccine, there is a very low risk of myocarditis in younger people, which is why we recommend physical rest for 3 days and no intensive sports for 1 week after a mRNA vaccination.
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