2023-09-28 04:19:43
Yasmina Kattou, edited by Alexandre Dalifard / Photo credits: AMELIE-BENOIST / BSIP / BSIP VIA AFP 6:19 a.m., September 28, 2023
The benefits of physical activity are proven, both in prevention and treatment. This is why, the Cami Sport & Cancer association insists, on the occasion of the presentation of the social security financing bill, on the need to provide reimbursement for adapted physical activity for all patients. chronic and therapeutic.
Prescribing sport on prescription, like prescribing medication? This is what is asked, in a column published in The world, a collective of doctors and deputies. It is the Cami Sport & Cancer association which, on the occasion of the presentation of the social security financing bill on Wednesday, insists on the need to provide reimbursement for adapted physical activity for all patients. chronic (diabetes, hypertension, cancer, etc.) and therapeutics within the framework of the next bill.
On this point, there is consensus, sport is as effective as medicine for several pathologies.
Sport has benefits in both prevention and treatment
Physical activity reduces the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 58% and reduces the occurrence of high blood pressure by up to 50%. The benefits of sport are proven in prevention, but also in treatment, recalls Dr Thierry Bouillet, oncologist and president of the Cami Sport & Cancer association. “Breast cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer sees its probability of relapse of the disease drop by 40%,” he insists at the microphone of Europe 1.
And the benefit/cost ratio for social security would be colossal. “The monthly cost of treatment for certain breast cancers is 10,000 euros. One hour of physical and sporting activity adapted to the practice of physical activity in oncology is 15 euros maximum per course. So, if you do two classes per week, you have a monthly cost which has nothing to do with that of your treatment”, underlines Thierry Bouillet.
Health insurance has opened the possibility of reimbursement for sport to patients with cancer or diabetes. A first step towards care for all chronically ill people, hopes Dr Thierry Bouillet.
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