Medical Care and first aid: a framework for organised non-elite sport during the COVID-19 pandemic

Will you be providing first-aid care to athletes in a non-elite setting?This guidance (in pdf format at the end of the document) defines and rationalises emergency and first aid care during the current time of heightened awareness of contracting and transmitting...

Community sport is back: here’s how to safely power up in a COVID-19 environment

Sport delivers more than just benefits to our physical health. With COVID-19 having decimated any notion of ‘normality’ within local communities, the contribution of sport to community identity is potentially more important than...

Healthy return to performance in elite athletes and para-athletes after the COVID-19 lockdown

A proposal to guide in “terra incognita”How can elite athletes and para-athletes (hereafter referred as “athletes”) manage the return to performance by minimizing injury risk after this lockdown...

Infographic. Graduated return to play guidance following COVID-19 infection

COVID-19 and sport With risk of cardiological, renal, respiratory and haematological complications,1–5 it is best practice to follow steady resumption of training, paying attention to physical and psychological factors after COVID-19...

Pitch Side Care and PPE

COVID-19 is the infection caused by the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, first identified in humans in December 2019 and declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organisation in March 2020.Here we guide pitch side emergency care during the current time...