In the context of treating an athlete with COVID-19, the sports and exercise medicine (SEM) clinician is typically faced with three main challenges—risk, restriction and recovery—or the ‘3Rs’. First, a need to characterise the clinical ‘risk’ of the acute illness and to detect any serious pathology, such as cardiac illness. Second, the inter-related issue of how exercise and sports participation should be modified and if temporary ‘restriction’ in some way is needed. Third, how best to monitor and optimise ‘recovery’ and most importantly what do if an athlete has persistent symptoms. Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the BJSM has published numerous papers providing robust evidence to support SEM decision-making in each of these areas. These include but are not limited to papers describing the risk of cardiac illness and injury, clinical features of prolonged recovery and decision algorithms when managing return-to-play.1–4 A welcome addition to the published body of work is the paper by Moulson and colleagues,5 providing novel insight regarding the recovery of athletes with persistent symptoms. More precisely, the study addressed …

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COVID-19 后运动员的持续症状：是时候喘口气来寻找答案了？

在治疗 COVID-19 运动员的情况下，运动和运动医学 (SEM) 临床医生通常面临三个主要挑战——风险、限制和恢复——或“3R”。首先，需要表征急性疾病的临床“风险”并检测任何严重的病理，例如心脏病。其次，运动和运动参与应该如何改变以及是否需要以某种方式进行临时“限制”等相互关联的问题。第三，如何最好地监测和优化“恢复”，最重要的是如果运动员出现持续症状该怎么办。在 COVID-19 大流行期间，BJSM 发表了大量论文，为支持 SEM 在这些领域的决策制定提供了有力的证据。这些包括但不限于描述心脏病和受伤风险的论文，管理重返赛场时延长恢复和决策算法的临床特征。1-4 Moulson 及其同事的论文 5 对已发表的工作进行了受欢迎的补充，提供了有关持续症状运动员恢复的新见解。更准确地说，该研究解决了……