JSEMS

JSEMS - BE ACTIVE

Text: Sara Walder

Physical activity plays an important role in our daily lives! Professional and amateur athletes practice sports to achieve their goals and enjoy their passion. People with mainly other interests than sports, are physically active as well when they go to work, meet friends, do the household etc.

During sport activities, injuries can happen, and they do. According to a study from Denmark, there is almost 20% prevalence of sport injuries per year1. Moreover, physical inactivity is not healthy and contributes to the development of chronic diseases. Kohl et al. report it as the fourth leading cause of death worldwide2.

Physicians with diagnostic and therapeutic skills are needed, so that sport injuries are treated properly and best advice concerning physical inactivity is given.

With our Junior SEMS (Sports and Exercise Switzerland) association, we try to give medical students an insight into sports medicine and raise the consciousness of this topic in the prevention of chronic diseases.

We like to take this chance and present our next event: The Student’s Day! It took place on the 26th of October in Interlaken and consisted exciting lectures (e.g. exercise and retinal microvascular function, meniscal rehabilitation in athletes etc.), hands-on workshops, a short sports session and a tasty dinner! It’s our annual main event, so if it was not possible for you to join this year, there are a lot of interesting topics waiting for you next year ;)

If you’re looking for more activities in the meantime, check out our online events and the upcoming podcast through our website (https://sems. ch/junior-sems) or Instagram (_jsems).

Lots of Love to everyone and stay active, Junior SEMS

1Bueno AM, Pilgaard M, Hulme A, Forsberg P, Ramskov D, Damsted C, et al. Injury prevalence across sports: a descriptive analysis on a representative sample of the Danish population. Inj Epidemiol. 2018;5(1):62Kohl HW, 3rd, Craig CL, Lambert EV, Inoue S, Alkandari JR, Leetongin G, et al. The pandemic of physical inactivity: global action for public health. The Lancet. 2012;380(9838):294-305