Clinician Well-being during a Pandemic: Practices to Boost Resilience and Life Satisfaction.

The role of the sports medicine physician has been challenged in several ways during the COVID-19 pandemic, potentially eroding a sense of well-being. Four universal human needs related to flourishing and a sense of life satisfaction are the framework we use to examine the effects of a pandemic on sports medicine clinicians. We offer two evidence-based practices to promote well-being and resilience within each of the four universal needs.

The Resumption of Sports Medicine During the COVID-19 Post-Epidemic Period: Experiences from Wuhan, People's Republic of China.

ABSTRACT: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is spreading worldwide, with its outlook not looking optimistic. Simultaneously, the epidemic is currently under control in many areas. The resumption of work and production in areas that have achieved control of outbreaks is a problem. Considering the extremely transmissible nature of COVID-19, and the presence of asymptomatic infected people, avoiding nosocomial infection and protecting medical staff and patients during the post-epidemic period remain difficult problems that need to be solved. At present, few articles have examined relevant experiences in the field of sports medicine. Wuhan, the People's Republic of China, was the original epicenter of COVID-19, with physicians as the initial frontline workers. Wuhan is now gradually returning to a more normal state after a series of urgent, strict, and effective measures were utilized to combat the epidemic. During this time, we collected first-hand experiences of sports medicine work resumption in the initial 2-month period, including preparations before resuming work, outpatient management methods, online outpatient services, inpatient ward management, principles for determination of the examination results, and preparations for operations. The strict and feasible management strategies that we conducted were useful in avoiding hospital-based infections. We intend to share our own experiences and thoughts in this area. We hope that this will be helpful and inspiring to our sports medicine colleagues around the world.

Remote assessment in sport and exercise medicine (SEM): a narrative review and teleSEM solutions for and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic forces sport and exercise medicine (SEM) physicians to think differently about the clinical care of patients. Many rapidly implement eHealth and telemedicine solutions specific to SEM without guidance on how best to provide these services. AIM: The aim of this paper is to present some guiding principles on how to plan for and perform an SEM consultation remotely (teleSEM) based on a narrative review of the literature. A secondary aim is to develop a generic teleSEM injury template. RESULTS: eHealth and telemedicine are essential solutions to effective remote patient care, also in SEM. This paper provides guidance for wise planning and delivery of teleSEM. It is crucial for SEM physicians, technology providers and organisations to codesign teleSEM services, ideally involving athletes, coaches and other clinicians involved in the clinical care of athletes, and to gradually implement these services with appropriate support and education. CONCLUSION: teleSEM provides solutions for remote athlete clinical care during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. We define two new terms-eSEM and teleSEM and discuss guiding principles on how to plan for and perform SEM consultations remotely (teleSEM). We provide an example of a generic teleSEM injury assessment guide.