Training Room Management of Medical Conditions: Sports Dermatology

Cordoro, Kelly M.; Ganz, Jodi

doi:10.1016/j.csm.2005.03.008

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“…Since good hygiene of people participating in sports (Cordoro, Ganz, 2005;Goldhammer et al, 2006;Sean et al, 2006;Zinder et. al., 2010) is of great importance for the prevention of infectious diseases, the current study tried to examine the hygiene conditions that exist in sports halls, the attitude of recreational basketball players as well as people working out in fitness centers regarding personal hygiene issues and the protection measures in order for the possible dangers to be comprehensible.…”

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“…The athlete's skin is ideally suited for infection (Collins -O'Connell, 2012;Likness, 2011;Cordoro, Ganz, 2005;Lear et al, 2011). The athlete's activities facilitate the entry of microorganisms into the epidermis.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Athletes in both contact and noncontact sports frequently share equipment (Cohen et al, 1992;Likness, 2011) and towels (Lear et al, 2011;Nguyen et al, 2005), allowing the spread of fomites among team members. Many studies have documented the presence of bacteria, viruses (Collins -O'Connell, 2012), fungi, atypical mycobacteria (Cordoro, Ganz, 2005), and parasites on surfaces and especially on playing surfaces Hota et al, 2004).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Skin-to-skin contact, sneeze, cough or talk which is inherent in many sports, encourages the spread of microorganisms among the team (Collins -O'Connell, 2012;Harris, 2011;Cordoro, Ganz, 2005;Lear et al, 2011;Reinberg, 2007). Athletes in both contact and noncontact sports frequently share equipment (Cohen et al, 1992;Likness, 2011) and towels (Lear et al, 2011;Nguyen et al, 2005), allowing the spread of fomites among team members.…”

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Compliance with Hygiene Rules and Frequency of Infectious Diseases Incidents at Sports/Fitness Centers: Comparative Study/Analysis between Recreational Basketball Players and People who Working out at Health Clubs

2017

European Journal of Physical Education and Sport

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The lack of personal hygiene and decontamination of sports centers (CDC, 2003;Duckro et al., 2005) contribute to the cause and transmission of diseases between the athletes (Collins -O'Connell, 2012) and people that work out in these facilities.The aim of this study is to investigate the implementation of personal hygiene rules among the amateur basketball players and athletes working out in fitness centers. Moreover, the conditions of hygiene that exist in these specific facilities used by the participants of this study were analyzed. In the end, an analysis between recreational basketball players and the people who work out in health clubs is conducted, in order to examine whether the first are efficiently informed of the hygiene rules compared to the latter.Survey and quantitative analysis, with data gathered through questionnaires which were distributed and completed by 923 participants. The sample was random and evenly selected among amateur basketball athletes in basketball teams and people working out at fitness centers. The data were analyzed with quantitative methods with statistical package SPSS 22.The Analysis brought out that recreational athletes tend to not apply personal hygiene rule thoroughly. Low performance on personal hygiene is highly related to the frequency that recreational basketball athletes become ill or infected in their sports halls. People working out at health clubs appear more competent in the application of hygiene rules, their sports spaces tend to be more hygiene friendly and therefore they are less often ill or infected in comparison to recreational basketball athletes.

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Compliance with Hygiene Rules and Frequency of Infectious Diseases Incidents at Sports/Fitness Centers: Comparative Study/Analysis between Recreational Basketball Players and People who Working out at Health Clubs

2017

European Journal of Physical Education and Sport

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“…For example, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has implemented prevention programs [18] that encourage hand hygiene [9], surveys of environmental contamination [12], showering the entire body with an antimicrobial soap and water immediately after each practice and game [19], discouraging cosmetic body shaving [3], and cleaning and disinfecting shared items [18]. As a result of active surveillance (a way of carefully monitoring of SA nasal carriage), consensus has been reached concerning the optimal ways for controlling infection among athletes [15], with nares screening for SA critical for preventing skin and soft tissue infection.…”

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Role of Nasal Staphylococcus aureus Carriage in Transmission Among Contact Athletes

Suzuki¹

2017

Frontiers in Staphylococcus Aureus

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This chapter focuses on Staphylococcus aureus (SA) infections in athletes. Previous SA infection studies performed starting in the 1980s examined close physical contact athletes, with a focus primarily on injured skin. However, more recent studies of skin SA transmission in athletes were conducted using molecular epidemiology. When participants in sports having a greater duration of competition were examined, results indicated that there was prolonged contact between athletes on the same team and athletes from other teams. These indings demonstrate that efective measures for preventing SA infections are urgently needed. Factors that can afect skin SA infections include high rates of SA nasal colonization, the type of "position on a team," repeated skin-to-skin contact, and perspiration that occurs during exercise in SA nasal carriers. Thus, it should be possible to utilize molecular typing methods to assess skin-to-skin contact in athletes. This study summarizes the current understanding of SA infections in athletes. In order to develop preventive strategies, it will be necessary to further elucidate the predisposing factors and mechanisms behind SA infections and the subsequent transmission in athletes.

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