As the new school year resumes, many children and young people also return to their sports clubs and sports schools. Parents should know that free prophylactic health examinations for young athletes are performed at the Children’s Hospital. These tests are important to ensure that our offspring engaged in different sports is physically appropriate, paying special attention to the load test and heart rate. Unfortunately, not all sports clubs and sports schools take advantage of this opportunity.
Richard and Roland have arrived at the Children’s Hospital Sports Medical Center for an in -depth preventive health examination. Roland is engaged in hockey and Richard is sports dancing. Athletes share health testing: “Mostly we check for physical strength, height, weight and then check the load. After load, we can go to the sports doctor who tells us if we can do sports or not. Also, blood tests, urinary tracts, check if all vitamins are right.
Young athletes from the age of 10 to 18, except for non -physical activity sports, can be obtained once a year by a state -funded prophylactic test. Meanwhile, athletes with figure skating, sports dances, art and sports gymnastics have been performed from the age of 8.
“Anyone in a sports organization should come. The sports organization should send in the application that they want to receive this service, where all children are subordinate to them with one of the sports. And then children with their parents individually or go to groups.
Often such tests detect health problems. Norite-Lapsina emphasized that “lately we have posture problems, heart health problems, heart rhythm disorders, congenital heart disease, which often only appear in children when they start to exercise.”
Depending on the health problems identified, the child should change the type of athletic activity.
Norīte-Lapsiņa says: “We say that he cannot do this sport further or can only be hobby. That he does not have a NHL or NBA career that every parent expects to his child, sending him to training that he will be a professional and maybe all his life will associate with professional sports.”
It is often difficult for parents to accept it. Richard and Roland’s mom says her sons have shown health tests that everything was fine. “Testing your health, exactly your physical fitness, whether a child can really do this physical activity. Parents want the child to train, but in reality, this sport is not allowed to have a child and he or she can physically do it. It is good and great that children can go through such tests and be sure nothing will happen because health is very important.”
Such state -funded health tests can be carried out not only in Riga, but also in regional branches in Valmiera and Daugavpils. Such a center would still need to be opened in Liepaja. At the Children’s Hospital, however, is unfortunately not all sports clubs and sports schools take the opportunity to test the health of athletes free of charge.
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