COVID-19 Serosurveillance May Facilitate Return-to-Work Decisions

Return to Work in COVID-19: Review of Current Guidelines

Background and aims: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is mainly a respiratory disease which is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 Virus. The outbreak first began in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 and then expanded globally. COVID-19 can result in illness ranging from mild to severe. However, some of the affected individuals might be asymptomatic. Symptoms of the disease may appear in as few as 2 days...

Return-to-play decisions.

Concussions occur as a result of forces directed to the head or neck, or from impulsive forces transmitted from the body to the head. They result in the rapid onset and spontaneous recovery of short-lived impairment of neurologic function. Concussions represent a functional, rather than structural, disturbance, and do not result in abnormalities on standard structural imaging. This article disc...

Return to Sports Activities in athletes with Covid-19 with a Cardiovascular Approach

Introduction: The widespread prevalence of Coronavirus (COVID-19) around the world has raised concerns about physical activity and exercise. Patients with COVID-19 are 22% percent more likely to have heart damage than other people with infectious diseases. Due to the cardiovascular complications seen in patients, there are limitations for athletes due to the severity of the disease. Despite dou...

Challenging Return to Play Decisions

CONTEXT Sports medicine providers frequently return athletes to play after sports-related injuries and conditions. Many of these conditions have guidelines or medical evidence to guide the decision-making process. Occasionally, however, sports medicine providers are challenged with complex medical conditions for which there is little evidence-based guidance and physicians are instructed to indi...

Return to work.