Running, jumping, climbing, swimming… and risking injury from an epileptic seizure? For a long time, doctors did not want to allow their epileptic patients to play sports. Recommendations have changed, but fears remain among patients and their relatives, as well as teachers or leaders of sports activities. “It’s a question that parents ask a lot, but we also ask spontaneously because we know from experience that there can be fears or limitations.”shows Pr: Stéphane Auvin, neuropediatrician at Robert-Debreux Hospital (Paris). Among patients: “There are many who testify that they were forbidden to practice their activities”, laments Épilepsie France in a white paper published at the end of November. Sports and physical activity, however, are as beneficial for epileptics as they are for any of us… and perhaps even more so.
“The data confirm what was known in our practicelet’s say Pr:
Source: Le Figaro
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