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Editorial
. 2018 Nov;52(22):1412-1414.
doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2018-099377. Epub 2018 Jun 9.

Football is medicine: it is time for patients to play!

Peter Krustrup  1   2   3 , Birgitte R Krustrup  4   5
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Editorial

Football is medicine: it is time for patients to play!

Peter Krustrup et al. Br J Sports Med. 2018 Nov.
No abstract available

Keywords: health promotion; prevention; soccer; sport; treatment.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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A holistic ‘Football is Medicine’ model, describing the training components of football training; the training-induced adaptations in fitness and health variables; the link between the training stimuli to cardiovascular, metabolic and musculoskeletal fitness; and the use of football training in the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of non-communicable diseases, as well as the psychosocial elements of acute football training, organised as per the Football Fitness concept, and the long-term psychosocial training-induced effects and the possibility of creating adherence to an active lifestyle. Modified from Krustrup et al 2010 and Krustrup et al 2018. HIIT, aerobic high-intensity interval training.
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