Most people with well-controlled epilepsy can exercise and play sport safely, and exercise benefits physical and mental health without generally worsening seizure control.
Epilepsy is a lasting tendency to recurrent unprovoked seizures. In sport the risks are a seizure where loss of awareness could be fatal, injury during a seizure, and a cardiac arrest mistaken for a seizure. The sport and exercise medicine (SEM) doctor enables safe participation through individual risk assessment rather than blanket bans.
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