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The recent explosion of interest in handball has been accompanied by an increase in professionalism in the sport and an expectation of better-organised and qualified support staff, including the medical team. This chapter proposes a model for establishing medical support services for a handball team, starting with the employment of medical staff with specialist qualifications, who are experienced in handball medicine and who can work in a multidisciplinary setting to establish a network of medical services to support the team. An integrated performance health management and coaching model is based on the principles of shared decision-making (involving player, coaching staff and the extended medical team) with the goal of not only managing the health of the player but also the performance.
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Geertsema, C., Popovic, N., Dijkstra, P., Laver, L., Walden, M. (2018). Assembling a Medical Team: The Medical Needs of a Handball Team. In: Laver, L., Landreau, P., Seil, R., Popovic, N. (eds) Handball Sports Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55892-8_8
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