Abstract

Introduction. Health and full physical fitness are essential for any athlete. Possibilities that doping gives are tempting, but there are good reasons behind making them illegal. Instead, sport physiotherapy and legal and safe mean could be used.

Aim. Author tried to define questioned students’ opinion and experiences with doping and sport physiotherapy. Also, the aim was to check whether there exists statistically important correlation between answers and sociodemographic characteristics.

Methods. Author’s survey form has been used consisting of questions about opinion, experiences with doping and sport physiotherapy and respondent’s sociodemographic characteristics.

Results. This study has shown a statistically important correlation between respondent’sopinion and experiences with doping and sport physiotherapy and their sociodemographic characteristics.

Summary. Sport physiotherapy in Poland is still not of the best quality. There should be implemented some programs aiming at improvement of sport physiotherapy’s quality as well as promoting this alternative among young athlete.

Key words:

doping, sport physiotherapy, demographic characteristics, professional sport, amateur sport