Impact of Potential Physiological Changes due to COVID-19 Home Confinement on Athlete Health Protection in Elite Sports: a Call for Awareness in Sports Programming

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Physiology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
• ² Human Performance Research Centre, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
• ³ Sports Medical Research Group, Department of Orthopaedics, Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
• ⁴ Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
• ⁵ Sports Medicine Physician Team, Alpine Ski and Snowboard Team, Italian Winter Sports Federation, Milan, Italy.
• ⁶ Football Science Institute, Granada, Spain.
• ⁷ FC Basel 1983, Basel, Switzerland.
• ⁸ Brooklyn Nets, NBA, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
• ⁹ New England Patriots, NFL, Foxborough, MA, USA.
• ¹⁰ Myorobie Performance, Montvalezan, France.
• ¹¹ Buffalo Bills, NFL, Buffalo, NY, USA.
• ¹² US Olympic and Paralympic Committee, Colorado Springs, CO, USA.
• ¹³ Philadelphia 76ers, NBA, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• ¹⁴ Qatar Football Association, Doha, Qatar.
• ¹⁵ Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine and Nursing, University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Basque Country, Spain.
• ¹⁶ Exercise Science Laboratory, School of Kinesiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Finis Terrae, Santiago, Chile.
• ¹⁷ Human Performance Lab, Schulthess Clinic, Zurich, Switzerland.
• ¹⁸ Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Physiology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy. [email protected].