[Benefits and dangers of sport for the postural and locomotor apparatus (author's transl)].

The possible prophylactic, rehabilitative and the, today often unjustly exaggerated harmful effects of sport on the locomotor apparatus are reviewed. Damage and dangers can be avoided if attention is paid to measured amounts appropriate to age, improved individual style of the type of sport practised, and to the biomechanical susceptibility of certain sections of our postural and locomotor apparatus due to recent developmental history.