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For the last 13 years, the edi-
tors of ACSM’s Health & Fitness
Journal® distributed an online
questionnaire to thousands
of professionals from all over
the world to find out the world
trends for the next year. This
analysis allows the profession-
als to schedule the activities of
the next year. Only the trends,
that indicate a general altera-
tion or the changing of one situ-
ation, are considered, with the
elimination of the “fashions”,
which create a lot of enthusi-
asm, but are short-living. This is
the top-10 of the list: 1. usable
technology (smart watches,
heart rate monitors, GPS appa-
ratus, training monitors); 2.
Group training, where the moni-
tors have an important role to
guide and to motivate the par-
ticipants; 3. HIIT training, where
the exercises are of short duration
and of high-intensity, followed by
rest periods; 4. Training programs for
the elderly; 5. Body weight training;
6. Hiring of certificate profession-
als; 7. Ioga; 8. Personnal training;
9. Functional training to improve
the execution of activities of daily
living and 10. Exercise is Medicine,
a global health initiative. Published
at ACSM’s Health & Fitness Jour-
nal22(6):10-17, nov/dez2018.
The National Association of Football
Nurses and Masseurs (ANEDAF) is a
“private law association, which main
goal is the defense and promotion
of the collective interests of their
associates, it is affiliated at the FPF
and “through its decisions, when
asked, tries to value the nurses and
the masseurs of football, futsal
and beach soccer”, it is written in
Facebook page of this association.
It was founded on 05/06/1995 and
they have their own office in Porto.
With the aim to “strengthen even
more the unity and the sharing in
the class”, ANEDAF is carrying out,
in their auditorium, the 1 st Lecture
series of the 2018/2019 football
season. There were already four
lectures, all with great importance.
It is highlighted the more recent,
occurred on the 5 th of October, with
the title Trauma and male genital
pathology in football by Dr. Pedro
Abreu Mendes, and on the 27 th it was
the speaker Prof. Doctor J C Noronha,
with the theme The Anterior Cruciate
Ligament injury. We congratulate the
dynamism of this Association, that
certainly make jealous to other with
similar goals. However, a change in
the name to include the physiother-
apists, which are a fundamental
group on the actual football, would
give greater representability of this
Association.
The 2 nd edition of the Physical
Activity Guidelines for Americans is
already available (see in the site of
this Magazine). The 1 st edition was
published on 2008. It is a quite long
document, with 118 pages, whose
reason for publication resides on the
finding that “a lot of scientific evi-
dence supports the recommendation
that all americans must get involved
on regular physical activity to
ameliorate the global health and to
reduce the risk for many problems”.
It is stated at the Introduction that
“about 117 billions of US dollars are
spent on health care each year and
about 10% of the premature death
is associated to inadequate physical
activity”. There are chapters with
guidelines for preschool children, for
children and adolescents, for adults,
for the seniors, for the pregnant
women and also for post-partum, for
adults with chronic diseases and / or
disabilities and, finally, to perform
exercise safely. The aerobic training,
the strength training, the strength-
ening of the bones and the medical
care are indicated there. It is an
excellent text that explains all the
aspects of physical exercise and the
relation with health. Now we should
read it and practice it.
On november, the 30 th , it was the 75 th
Scientific Meeting of CMEP, in which
the Bastonary of the Order of Physi-
cians, Dr. Miguel Guimarães, debated
the theme What Health Policies for Por-
tugal. It had, once again, a lot of par-
ticipation, concerning the number of
people present and the discussion.
This subject was very timely, of great
importance for the health of the
Portuguese and a lot of ideas were
discussed. However, it was a sad day
because the 75 th Meeting was the
last. Its creator and great invigorat-
ing, Dr. Jaime Milheiro, referred that
it was the end of a cycle, like fin-
ishing a period that already lasted
since October 2010, with a lot and
good Meetings, with national guests
from several places of Portugal, but
also with some international guests
(USA and Spain). In these meet-
ings, initially organized at the CMEP
facilities and after at the Order of
Physicians facilities, news from the
medical sciences were highlighted,
with emphasis on sports medicine
and on the medicine of longev-
ity, with speakers that are medical
doctors, physical education teach-
ers, psychologists and nutritionists.
They were moments of socializing,
of sharing and learning that we can
not enjoy anymore. They were good
moments. Now we only have to
thank Dr. Jaime Milheiro because of
his resilience and to wait that one
day he finds the strength to come
back with 2 nd cycle of these Meet-
ings. We will be waiting.
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