11\/08\/2020<\/strong><\/p>\n As a sailor, Prof. Dr. Johan Bellemans took part in the Olympic Games in Barcelona. This top sports background now comes in handy for him as head of the medical department of Team Belgium. “Trainer – medical staff – athlete, we have a very open communication about everything”, he says. “<\/span>That’s one of the prearranged agreements; we want to know everything about the athlete.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Bellemans continues: “One of the problems, when I joined Team Belgium, was that there was no coordinated medical top sports policy. After the Beijing Games – which weren’t very good for our country in sports terms – we decided on my advice that something had to change.\u00a0We had to have an umbrella view of our top athletes on a permanent basis. That’s about 200 of them.\u00a0Since then, our medical success rate has improved substantially.”<\/p>\n “Some figures to illustrate this: in Beijing (2008) we had an incidence of 18% of our athletes (who were thus unable to perform at 100% of their capacity).\u00a0That was quite high, which was an important insight.<\/p>\n In London, we’ve already reduced that percentage to 10%, and in Rio, only 6% of our athletes were injured. That reduction to 6% resulted in 2 medals, so that’s pure profit. For Tokyo, our target is to further reduce the incidence to 4%, using the Panega platform.<\/span><\/strong> This would be a great result, especially since we’re talking about relatively cheap measures here.”<\/p>\n What exactly are these measures? We are with Panega, who do so in a wonderful partnership with Sport Vlaanderen, certainly one of the leading countries in the world in that field”.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cPanega offers us the means to guarantee a centrally coordinated medical top sport policy, based on very fast symptom detection and close monitoring. This makes Belgium one of the leading countries in the world in this field.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"2880","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[7],"tags":[6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panegasports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panegasports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panegasports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panegasports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panegasports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/panegasports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"https:\/\/panegasports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panegasports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panegasports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panegasports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panegasports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Bellemans, specialized in knees and sports injuries, joined Team Belgium 15 years ago. After the London Games, he became the person with final responsibility.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, 6% is still 6%, whereby within the injured group there were athletes with an almost medal-certitude. And when calculating that a medal costs about four to five million…<\/p>\n
“They are based on very fast symptom detection<\/span><\/strong> on the one hand and very short monitoring<\/span><\/strong> of our athletes on the other hand.
These two factors are combined and controlled from the central Panega platform, enabling a nationally coordinated top-level sports policy<\/span><\/strong> with all stakeholders involved.<\/p>\n