Corrélations entre scores au questionnaire de la Société française de médecine du sport et concentrations de cortisol et testostérone salivaires lors du suivi d’une équipe de rugby de haut niveau

Objective. – To carry out the follow-up of 21 high level rugby players by means of the psycho-comportmental questionnaire of the “French Society of Sports Medicine” (SFMS), of the salivary testosterone (T) and cortisol (C) levels and of their ratio T/C during the sporting season.Materials and methods. – The players provided three samples of saliva, at awakening (8 am), just before the lunch (11 am), and at 17 pm in order to assay cortisol and testosterone. The first measurements were done at the beginning of season (T1), 12 weeks (T2) and 24 weeks (T3) after T1. At the same periods, they completed the 54 items of the SFMS questionnaire which allows to give a score (from 1 to 54) proportional to the state of tiredness of the subject. The performance of the team was estimated from the ratio of victories to the number of matches played over the season.Results and discussion. – The increase in the score obtained with the SFMS questionnaire and the variations of the hormonal levels during the season seem to reflect a normal adaptation phenomenon to the training load, a fact which is confirmed by the maintenance of the same level of performance of the team throughout the season. This study permitted to highlight the parallel evolutions between the psycho-comportemental index (score) and the hormonal markers of the state of tiredness. Thus, it appears that the SFMS questionnaire is an interesting and easy to employ tool to evaluate the state of tiredness (or reciprocally of form) of a sportsman during the course of the sporting season.     

Questionnaire de surentraînement de la Société française de médecine du sport : relations entre les échelles visuelles analogiques et le score de surentraînement chez les sportifs

Aim. – Verify the correlation between analogical visual scale (performance score or SP) and overtraining score (obtained by the number of positive items) in a sport population.Methods and results. – Ninety-nine subjects (25 women and 74 men), all international or national athletes (mean training: 12–20 h/week), have complied one to three overtraining questionnaire during the 2001–2002 sport session. Results were analysed by a comparison between analogical visual scale and overtraining score in the total population. These results showed that a correlation exits between analogical visual scale and overtraining score.Conclusion. – This questionnaire is a very interesting method for coaches, and sport doctors, allowing a good determination of physical condition and it permits to identify some fatigue state, consecutively to training variations.