Module 7 - Anti-Doping and RED-S Flashcards
What are the 3 Risk Levels of RED-S?
- High Risk: Red Light
- Moderate Risk: Yellow Light
- Low Risk: Green Light
What does RED-S mean?
- Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport
Describe the Red Light Risk Level of RED-S
- High Risk
- No clearance for sport participation
- Sport participation may pose serious risk to health
- Sport participation may distract attention from treatment and recovery
Describe the Yellow Light Risk Level of RED-S
- Moderate Risk
- Cleared for super-vised sport participation
- 1-3 month duration
Describe the Green Light Risk Level of RED-S
- Low Risk
- Full Sport Participation
What is the Definition of RED-S?
- Impaired physiological functioning
- Caused by relative energy deficiency
- Includes impairments to: metabolic rate; menstrual function; bone health; immunity; protein synthesis; and cardiovascular health
What was RED-S previously called?
- Female Athlete Triad
What is the equation for Energy Availability?
Energy Availability = Energy Intake(kcal) - Exercise Energy Expenditure (kcal) / Fat Free Mass (kg)
EA = EI - EEE / FFM
What is exercise energy expenditure (EEE)?
EEE = the additional energy expended above that of daily living during the exercise bout
What is the healthy physiological function in women?
45 kcal/kg FFM/day
What is low energy availability?
<30 kcal/kg FFM/day
What does low energy availability mean?
- Many systems are perturbed
What are some of the health consequences of RED-S?
- Immunological
- Menstrual Function
- Bone Health
- Endocrine
- Metabolic
- Hermatological
- Growth + Development
- Psychological (goes both ways)
- Cardiovascular
- Gastrointestinal
What are some performance consequences of RED-S?
Decrease
- Endurance Performance
- Training Response
- Judgement
- Coordination
- Concentration
- Glycogen Stores
- Muscle Strength
Increase
- Injury Risk
- Irritability
- Depression
What are some strategies for prevention of RED-S?
- Awareness, Education
- Screening at-risk athletes is difficult
Why is it difficult to screen at-risk athletes?
A gap in our understanding of RED-S (specific sport)
- energy demands
- Performance criteria
- Ethnicities
- Cultural perspectives
What does RED-S Present?
- Disordered Eating (De)/Eating Disorders (eD)
- Weight Loss
- Lack of normal growth and development
- Endocrine Dysfunction
- Recurrent Injuries and Illnesses
- Decreased Performance/Performance Variability
- Mood Changes
Describe the IOC Assessment Tool of the High-Risk Level of RED-S
- Anorexia Nervosa (other eating disorders)
- Serious medical conditions: related to low energy
- Extreme weight loss techniques
- Severe ECG abnormalities (ie. bradycardia)
Describe the Assessment Tool of the Moderate Risk Level of the RED-S
- prolonged abnormal low % body fat
- Substantial weight loss
- Reduced Expected Growth and Development
- Abnormal Menstrual Cycle
- No menarche by age 15y in females
- Reduced bone mineral density
- History of 1 or more stress fractures
- Physical/psychological complication related to low EA
- Diagnostic test abnormalities
- Prolonged relative energy deficiency
- Disordered eating behaviour
- Lack of progress in treatment/compliance
Describe the Risk Assessment Tool for Low Risk of RED-S
- Appropriate Physique without undue stress
- Healthy eating habits
- Healthy functioning endocrine system
- Healthy bone mineral density
- Healthy musculoskeletal system
What is the protocol for Red and Yellow zone of RED-S risk?
- Immediate medical evaluation and treatment
What multidisciplinary areas of medicine are useful for the treatment and evaluation of RED-S?
- Sports Medicine Physician
- Sport Dietician
- Mental Health Practitioner
- Exercise Physiologist
What are the concomitant treatment areas for RED-S?
- Mood disorders
- Eating Disorders
- Substance Use Disorders
What risk factors for RED-S require inpatient treatment?
- Severe Bradycardia
- Hypotension
- Electrolyte Imbalance
How does the severity of RED-S relate to the treatment?
- Increase in resistance to treatment
What is the protocol for High Risk RED-S?
- No competition
- No training
- Use of written contract
What is the protocol for Moderate Risk RED-s?
If following treatment plan
- May train
When medically cleared
- May compete under supervision
What is the protocol for Low-Risk RED-S?
- Full Sport Participation
What is Doping?
- Prohibited substance in Athlete sample
- Refusing to compel with sample collection request
- tampering
- trafficking of prohibited substances
- administration of prohib substance to athlete