Place de l'interrogatoire dans le diagnostic de surentraînement

Future prospects. - Practically, we suggest to undertake this medical interview in depth in order to specify with the athlete his answers to the short self-administered overtraining questionnaire proposed by the French Sport Medicine Society (SFMS), a screening tool, integrating most of the items discussed in this article. Based on this literature review and on the different works performed by the memberships of the SFMS, the article proposed in the following, summarizes this analytic process. The latter is concluded by the position stand of the SFMS on the role of medical interview in early diagnosis of overtraining syndrome.