Role of pan-national associations such as the European College of Sports and Exercise Physicians (ECOSEP) in advancing the specialty of sports and exercise medicine in the 21st century

Volker Scheer; Heinz Lohrer; Amir Pakravan; Kyriakos Tsapralis; Xavier Valle; Mourad Ghrairi; Jose María Bueno Padilla; Nikos Malliaropoulos; Nicola Maffulli; Beat Knechtle; Neil Heron

doi:10.1136/bmjsem-2023-001703

Role of pan-national associations such as the European College of Sports and Exercise Physicians (ECOSEP) in advancing the specialty of sports and exercise medicine in the 21st century

BMJ Open Sport Exerc Med. 2023 Oct 29;9(4):e001703. doi: 10.1136/bmjsem-2023-001703. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Volker Scheer^{1

2}, Heinz Lohrer^{3

4}, Amir Pakravan^{5

6}, Kyriakos Tsapralis⁷, Xavier Valle^{8

9}, Mourad Ghrairi¹⁰, Jose María Bueno Padilla^{11

12}, Nikos Malliaropoulos^{13

14}, Nicola Maffulli^{15

16

17}, Beat Knechtle^{18

19}, Neil Heron^{20

21}

Affiliations

¹ Ultra Sports Science Foundation, Pierre-Benite, France.
² Universidad a distancia de Madrid (UDIMA), Madrid, Spain.
³ Zentrum für Sportorthopädie, European SportsCare Network, Wiesbaden, Germany.
⁴ Department of Sport and Sport Science, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
⁵ Department of Sport and Exercise Science, University of Suffolk, Ipswich, UK.
⁶ British Basketball League and Women's British Basketball League, London, UK.
⁷ Isokinetic Medical Group, Bologna, Italy.
⁸ Medical Department, FC Barcelona Servicios Medicos, Barcelona, Spain.
⁹ Hospital Universitari Dexeus (ICATME), Barcelona, Spain.
¹⁰ Chief Medical Officer, FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence Dubai, Dubai, UAE.
¹¹ Football Medicine Performance Association, Spanish Football Doctors Association, Madrid, Spain.
¹² Royal College of Physicians, Seville, Spain.
¹³ Centre Sports and Exercise Medicine, QMUL, London, UK.
¹⁴ Sports Medicine, Thessaloniki Sports Medicine Clinic, Thessaloniki, Greece.
¹⁵ Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine, Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK.
¹⁶ School of Pharmacy and Bioengineering, Keele University, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, UK.
¹⁷ Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
¹⁸ Institute of Primary Care, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
¹⁹ Medbase, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
²⁰ Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK.
²¹ Keele University, Keele, UK.

No abstract available

Keywords: Exercise; Medicine; Sports.

Publication types

Editorial