Axel Urhausen

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Axel Urhausen (born October 20, 1958 in Verviers ) is a Belgian general practitioner and sports medicine specialist . He took part in the Olympic Games several times as a member of the Olympic medical team.

Vita

Urhausen grew up as the son of the physician Edgar Urhausen and Erika Mathar in Eupen , where he passed his Abitur in 1977 at the Collège Patronné . He then studied medicine at the University of Namur and at the Catholic University in Leuven until 1984 .

After completing his studies, Urhausen was initially taken on as an assistant and from 1987 as permanent deputy by Wilfried Kindermann , the medical director of the Institute for Sports and Preventive Medicine at Saarland University . There he qualified as a sports medicine specialist in 1987 and obtained his doctorate in 1990 as a Dr. med. In 1994 he completed his habilitation on the subject of overtraining and received the Venia Legendi . In 1999, Urhausen was appointed to the medical faculty of the Saarland University as an associate professor under Kindermann, after he had rejected an offer from the University of Dortmund to establish and take over a chair for sports medicine there a year earlier. Finally, in 2004, Urhausen moved to the “Center Hospitalier de Luxembourg” in the Luxembourg district of Eich , where he set up the department for sports and preventive medicine and took over its management. In addition, in November 2016 he and Christian Alt founded LUNEX University in Differdange in the canton of Esch an der Alzette in Luxembourg with a focus on sports, health prevention and therapy, of which he was the founding president until October 2017.

In his free time, Urhausen devotes himself to active sport in various disciplines. He was once the Belgian youth champion in judo , played water polo up to the Belgian First League, was active in squash in both Eupen and Germany , and is currently skiing in winter and racing biking in summer.

Axel Urhausen is married to the doctor Hildegard, née Mockel, and has three children.

Sports medicine work

As part of his sports medicine training, Urhausen focused on the topics of internal medicine and movement physiology , performance diagnostics and training control , cardiac adaptation to movement and training, sports cardiology , overtraining and hormonal regulation as well as the doping problem in sports. After Urhausen initially looked after the German speed skaters from 1984 to 1987 , he was taken on by Kindermann in 1988 as chief physician in the German Rowing Association and was a member of the Medical Commission of the Fédération Internationale des Sociétés d'Aviron (FISA) from 1993 to 2000 . In addition, he was a member of the German Olympic medical team at the Olympic Games in 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004 and has been the head doctor of the Luxembourg Olympic team since 2008.

Memberships (selection)

Urhausen belonged and still belongs to numerous associations and commissions, including

Honors

For his services to sports science, Urhausen was awarded the Silver Sports Merit Medal of Luxembourg in 1999 and was named Sports Doctor of the Year 2016 by the Society for Orthopedic-Traumatological Sports Medicine (GOTS).

Fonts (selection)

In addition to several monographs, Urhausen wrote more than 260 scientific articles in specialist journals. In addition, he was part of the editorial team of the International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance and, from 1996 to 2000, of the medical and scientific department in “Sport and Movement”. He was also a member of the scientific advisory boards of the "German Journal for Sports Medicine" and the journal "Sportorthopädie - Sporttraumatologie". His most famous publications are:

  • Behavior of testosterone and cortisol after several hours of exhausting endurance exercise and in phases of increased aerobic or anaerobic-lactic stress , dissertation Saarbrücken 1989
  • Overtraining - not always over exercising; what active and caregivers should know about a darned syndrome . Sport and Book Strauss, Ed. Sport, Cologne 1993 ISBN 978-3-89001-097-7
  • Sudden cardiac death while exercising . Together with Wilfried Kindermann. Sport and Book Strauss, Cologne 1999 ISBN 978-3-89001-131-8
  • Current sports medicine and sports science aspects in children and adolescents . WWF-Verl.-Gesellschaft, Greven 2004

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hegen: Axel Urhausen appointed professor at Saarland University , in: Grenz-Echo of July 7, 1999
  2. ↑ International and in the Middle , In: Weekly magazine Forum of October 26, 2016
  3. ↑ Axel Urhausen démissionne de la présidence de Lunex , in: paperjam.lu of October 3, 2017
  4. ↑ Struggle for survival and successes of men in "white pajamas" , in Grenz-Echo of December 29, 1992
  5. ↑ Eupener Squash Club now plays on Sundays , in Grenz-Echo from October 14, 1988
  6. ↑ Mark Mittasch: Flood of medals for Axel Urhausen , in Grenz-Echo from September 27, 2000
  7. ↑ Heinz Gensterblum: Roger Xhonneux and Axel Urhausen hold up the DG flag in Athens , in Grenz-Echo from August 12, 2004
personal data
SURNAME Urhausen, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian doctor and sports medicine specialist
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Verviers