WARM UP
What have overprescription of NSAIDs, overtraining and modelling physical activity for kids got to do with Barack Obama in Berlin?
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September already! Can you believe it? Are you exhausted from the Olympics? Has it motivated your patients to be active? Interestingly, when Australians were interviewed before and just after the Sydney Games, there was an increase in people thinking about doing physical activity. Unfortunately, a year later physical activity levels had remained unchanged.1 Not to worry, the Olympics contribute to world peace. So we eagerly anticipate more peace during upcoming Olympics in Vancouver (2010), London (2012) and, we hope, Tromsø (2018).
But on to BJSM business and Barack. In this issue we learn that 10% of FIFA World Cup players took NSAIDs prior to every match (see p 725)! Would paracetamol/acetaminophen have been better choices? Or a placebo? As sports clinicians working with the "healthy elite athlete" is this OK? Futhermore, supplement use was rampant—the champion ingester took 7.4 different supplements before every game! Clearly this player couldn’t
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