Abstract

People who practise sport and train intensively can, when they have to stop immediately their training activities, develop a syndrome that is known as an Akutes Entlastungssyndrom. During the past 10 years it has become clear, that this pattern of complaints probably is caused by a lack of endogenic material, the so-called endorphines that have an effect on the athlete similar to that of morphine. Intense duration training stimulates the excretion of endorphines by the hypothalamus. When the athlete is compelled to cease his normal training-activities, this will result in a decrease of the production of endorphines, causing then symptoms quite comparable to the ones of a drug-addict who is kicking-off drugs. It is rather likely that the Akute Entlastungssyndrom appears more often, than that it is diagnosed as such. These complaints can be straightend-out by making one simple correciton in the athletes training-programme. Therefore it is not necessary to extend medical examinations as just one simple training-advise will do. Verf.-Referat