Publications by authors named "Manikavasagam Jegathesan"
Objectives: We describe the medical services provided and report the injuries and illnesses that occurred at the eighth Asian Winter Games 2017.
Methods: A total of 2010 athletes and team officials from 32 National Olympic Committees and 2 guest countries attended this event; medical services were provided for 16 days. Medical data (medical care and physiotherapy) were collected for the same period by the organising committee for athletes and non-athletes (team officials, workforce, media and spectators) and recorded on the electronic medical record system at the medical rooms in the venues and the team residences.
Background: Antidoping and medical care delivery programmes are required at all large international multisport events.
Objective: To document and critique the novel antidoping and medical care delivery models implemented at the 2nd Summer Youth Olympic Games, Nanjing 2014.
Methods: The International Olympic Committee implemented two new models of delivery of antidoping and medical care at the YOG.
Background: The Olympic Movement Medical Code encourages all stakeholders to ensure that sport is practised without danger to the health of the athletes. Systematic surveillance of injuries and illnesses is the foundation for developing preventive measures in sport.
Aim: To analyse the injuries and illnesses that occurred during the Games of the XXX Olympiad, held in London in 2012.
Context: Mass gatherings such as the Youth Olympic Games require medical services for large populations with special needs specific to elite competitive youth athletes. The location of the Games in a heavily populated city with dispersed competition venues provides unique challenges.
Objective: To describe the planning and delivery of medical services and to provide data for future planning.