Boxing Medical, ABAE Medical Commission.

[MasonKMK]

About me
hello ive been diagnosed with type one diabetes for 5 years now im currently 16 and have been doing boxing for two years, before i done kick boxing and mma but due to injures had to give up but in the kickboxing i got licenced and said about my diabetes.
im currently training as an amateur boxer but due to my diabetes i am unsure whether im aloud to box or not...
my HB1C is at 7.4 and my diabetes is under control and i can spar upto 12 rounds and still have good good blood sugar levels.

looking onto the ABAE medical website it quotes:
As a routine no-one with diabetes who requires insulin treatment is allowed to box under ABAE regulations.

Currently the ABAE Medical Commission is running a trial to see if it can be safe for well controlled diabetics to box.

For any diabetic to be considered for the trial, that person has to have a letter from their Diabetologist written to the ABAE Medical Commission, stating that the consultant agrees that that person should box.

The ABAE Medical Commission will then write back to the consultant to ensure that all the rules established by Diabetes UK (the Dr Cooper rules) are met and then the ABAE has to have names from the consultant of doctors that the consultant is happy to supervise the potential boxer when they are boxing.

[u]So i am unsure wether i can fight or not could someone please help meeee? [/u]

 

[kaidai]

was always a difficult subject back in the mid 1970's i also trained at amatuer level for almost 2years before going forward to the medical before a liecence could be approved, unluckily on that day my blood sugar was very high and i could taste the acetone on my breath and i was never granted a liecence after that. Nowadays people are much more aware of diabetes and its complication, but at the time i was the only person i knew of with the condition and the only people i could get any advice from were doctors. The problem with that was that back then the medical profession did not seem to think it appopriate for diabetics to do much sport of any kind and all my hopes and dreams were shattered on that day. I can only sugest that you keep a tight control on your diabetes and find a doctor who is willling to support you in your endevour to keep boxing as nowadays there seems a much better appricayion of how good the training used in boxing is for the cardiovascular system which in turn can help in the prvention of later diabetic complications such loss of feeling in hands and feet which in turn could lead to amputaions. Keep up the training at least for the meantime and maybe attitudes will improve. Hopo this helps a bit