INTERVIEW
A week before the start of the deconfinement, many French people wonder: will it be possible to resume sport? If so, how do you safely get back to it to avoid coronavirus contamination? On Europe 1, Monday noon, Bernard Nordlinger, former head of department at Ambroise-Paré and member of the Academy of Medicine, gave recommendations on the subject, while the sports bodies must meet in the afternoon to discuss the practical arrangements for this recovery.
"Atrophied muscles"
"The number one rule is to resume recreational sport and not competition, to protect yourself to avoid a resumption of the epidemic," says Bernard Nordlinger. "That everyone is responsible is common sense." This weekend, the Minister of Sports Roxana Maracineanu spoke out for a resumption of sport with 10 people maximum, preferably outdoors.
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First, we must differentiate the French who want to put on their sports clothes again: "For people who have been sick with Covid-19, or who are at risk of having contracted it, they must go see their doctor, "says Bernard Nordlinger. "For everyone else, there must be a gradual recovery because we know that sporting activity keeps the body in good condition. When we stop, despite the recommendations of home sport, the muscles will be atrophied and the body reacts worse on rough terrain. "
Wear a mask before sport
Those who want to resume sport are therefore asked not to force during the first efforts. But they will also have to "maintain a distance" with others in the context of this practice, "the best way to prevent contamination". The distance, but also the wearing of the mask, which is "a good aid for distancing".
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For these masks, "the Academy of Medicine recommends the wearing of the mask in all the zones before the practice of the sport, where one can meet other people. For a moderate sport, it is possible to keep its mask. intense, it is a priori not possible to keep your mask, but it must be kept before and after "the session, so that the resumption of sport does not restart the number of contaminations.