This article reviews cardiac, respiratory, and central nervous system conditions that warrant disqualification from sports activities and provides guidelines for safe participation.
May guide eligibility decisions in athletes; leaves open prospective validation of recommendations.
In briefSports activities promote health and fitness for most participants, but for some, activity can complicate an illness or even be fatal. This article, the first of a two- part series on contraindications to activity, examines the cardiac, respiratory, and central nervous system conditions that warrant activity disqualification and provides guidelines about when it's safe for patients to participate.
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James L. Moeller (1996) studied this question.
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