[Possibilities and limits of the diagnosis of aging in sports medicine].

The author orders by the presented survey publication the diagnostic of ageing into the sport medical diagnostic, thereby referring on the promising for the field of sport in future. The term of the so-called age is related to the categories adaptation, vitality and biological age(-ing). By a biography the reader gets informed on the current level of diagnostic of ageing within the national and international framework. Out of that the author draws conclusions for optimizing sports medical diagnostic.