Provides expert-opinion based guidance for healthcare practitioners on graduated return to play for performance athletes following mild to moderate COVID-19 infection.
Supports cautious return-to-play decisions after mild illness; leaves open prospective validation in athletes.
This guidance takes into account public health guidelines in the UK (although we hope its content is relevant more widely) and available expert opinion at time of publication and is for use by healthcare practitioners. It is applicable to performance athletes who have had mild to moderate illness. Those requiring hospital admission merit further assessment.
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Elliott et al. (2020) studied this question. Graduated return to play guidance for COVID-19 applies to performance athletes with mild to moderate illness, while those requiring hospital admission merit further clinical assessment.
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