European prevention position statement 2024 by EFSMA: sports medicine as lifelong health promotion and health care
The medical specialty of “Sports Medicine”, which has just been created in the EU, embodies the basis of comprehensive prevention. Preventive health care means: multidisciplinary and professional cooperation between sports medicine, nutritional medicine, lifestyle and environmental medicine, other medical disciplines as required and the integration of other health sciences.
However, sports medicine has a special role to play as an important component of preventive medicine: sports medicine is “the” preventive medicine: exercise, physical activity, training and sport have a pleiotropic effect. They are a natural “polypill” and therefore have a positive influence on all organs and organ systems, eating habits, mindset, mental balance and stress resistance.
Movement is life, life is movement
“Energizing the society through Sports Medicine – active lifestyle, health maintenance, physical fitness, exercise prescriptions, injury prevention, better ageing.”