

If it was the doctors who were to blame for bringing Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT) into combat sports, then it only seems fitting that those same physicians would be the ones to remove it.

The Association of Professional Ringside Physicians recently issued a press release calling for the ban of ‘TRT’ and ‘TEU’ in combat sports.

The press release reads as follows:

For Immediate Release January 27, 2014

Association of Ringside Physicians Releases Consensus Statement on

Therapeutic Use Exemptions for Testosterone Replacement Therapy

The Association of Ringside Physicians (ARP), an international, non-profit

organization dedicated to the health and safety of the boxer and mixed

martial arts athlete, has released a consensus statement on therapeutic use

exemptions for testosterone replace therapy in professional combat sport

athletes, as follows:

The incidence of hypogonadism requiring the use of testosterone

replacement therapy (TRT) in professional athletes is

extraordinarily rare. Accordingly, the use of an anabolic steroid

such as testosterone in a professional boxer or mixed martial artist

is rarely justified. Steroid use of any type, including unmerited

testosterone, significantly increases the safety and health risk to

combat sports athletes and their opponents. TRT in a combat sports

athlete may also create an unfair advantage contradictory to the

integrity of sport. Consequently, the Association of Ringside

Physicians supports the general elimination of therapeutic use

exemptions (TUE) for testosterone replacement therapy.

For more about the ARP, visit its website at:

http://www.associationofringsidephysicians.org/