Sport For Allのためのスポーツ医学の課題 : Evidence Based Medicine in Sportの確立を期待して

Abstract

Sport For All, what all people, including disabled, elderly and children could participate in any kind of sports, is a purpose of 21st century Sport academy. Sport medicine for all generations is important, as is taking medical care of participants in sports. Medical science is expected to reduce the risk of diseases, and to elucidate the factors for health promotion or hazard risk in participants in sports. Therefore the evidence of the factors is needed for accurate clinical judgment and decision making of the correctable sports programs. The decision making is concerned not only with sex and age, but also to individual differences, and sports participated for gaining benefit. For the decision making, we point out the individual risks or the health promotion factors to all participants. For example, we show the data, odds ratio and the figure of the association between sports and health. In order to obtain this result, we calculate the evidence based medicine in sports using epidemiological studies. So to introduce the intensive methods for medical statistics, informatics in educational fields, in the sport faculty, is expected.