Journal: Sports health
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Effect of a 6-Week Weighted Baseball Throwing Program on Pitch Velocity, Pitching Arm Biomechanics, Passive Range of Motion, and Injury Rates
- Sports health
- Published over 2 years ago
- Discuss
Emphasis on enhancing baseball pitch velocity has become popular, especially through weighted-ball throwing. However, little is known about the physical effects or safety of these programs. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of training with weighted baseballs on pitch velocity, passive range of motion (PROM), muscle strength, elbow torque, and injury rates.
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Effect of active versus passive recovery on performance during intrameet swimming competition
- Sports health
- Published about 7 years ago
- Discuss
During competition, high-performance swimmers are subject to repeated physical demands that affect their final performance. Measurement of lactate concentration in blood seeks to indirectly gauge physiologic responses to the increase in physical exercise. Swimmers face multiple maximal-exertion events during competition. Strenuous physical exercise leads to fatigue and, thus, a decrease in sports performance.
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Concussion history and knowledge base in competitive equestrian athletes
- Sports health
- Published about 7 years ago
- Discuss
Head injuries are responsible for the majority of serious equestrian sports injuries and deaths. Because of significant health risks to equestrians, education regarding the prevention of head and brain injuries is essential.
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Update on Zika Virus: Considerations for the Traveling Athlete
- Sports health
- Published over 4 years ago
- Discuss
As public health experts work to contain the outbreak of Zika virus in South America and minimize the devastating prenatal complications, the international sports community prepares for the 2016 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Athletes have publicly expressed concern regarding the health risks of competition in Zika-endemic areas.(33) Ensuring the safety of the athletes during training and competition is the primary role of the team physician. Special consideration is needed for sports teams preparing for travel to areas affected by Zika virus.
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Match High-Speed Running Distances Are Often Suppressed After Return From Hamstring Strain Injury in Professional Footballers
- OPEN
- Sports health
- Published 4 months ago
- Discuss
High-speed running is commonly implicated in the genesis of hamstring injury. The success of hamstring injury management is typically quantified by the duration of time loss or reinjury rate. These metrics do not consider any loss in performance after returning to play from hamstring injury. It is not known to what extent high-speed running is altered on return to play after such injury.
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Play Sports for a Quieter Brain: Evidence From Division I Collegiate Athletes
- Sports health
- Published about 1 year ago
- Discuss
Playing sports has many benefits, including boosting physical, cardiovascular, and mental fitness. We tested whether athletic benefits extend to sensory processing-specifically auditory processing-as measured by the frequency-following response (FFR), a scalp-recorded electrophysiological potential that captures neural activity predominately from the auditory midbrain to complex sounds.
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Infection Risk Reduction Program on Pathogens in High School and Collegiate Athletic Training Rooms
- Sports health
- Published over 1 year ago
- Discuss
Athletic training rooms have a high prevalence of bacteria, including multidrug-resistant organisms, increasing the risk for both local and systematic infections in athletes. There are limited data outlining formal protocols or standardized programs to reduce bacterial and viral burden in training rooms as a means of decreasing infection rate at the collegiate and high school levels.
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Sports Specialization, Part II: Alternative Solutions to Early Sport Specialization in Youth Athletes
- Sports health
- Published over 5 years ago
- Discuss
Many coaches, parents, and children believe that the best way to develop elite athletes is for them to participate in only 1 sport from an early age and to play it year-round. However, emerging evidence to the contrary indicates that efforts to specialize in 1 sport may reduce opportunities for all children to participate in a diverse year-round sports season and can lead to lost development of lifetime sports skills. Early sports specialization may also reduce motor skill development and ongoing participation in games and sports as a lifestyle choice. The purpose of this review is to employ the current literature to provide evidence-based alternative strategies that may help to optimize opportunities for all aspiring young athletes to maximize their health, fitness, and sports performance.
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Evidence-Based Physical Examination for the Diagnosis of Subscapularis Tears: A Systematic Review
- OPEN
- Sports health
- Published 7 months ago
- Discuss
There is a renewed interest in diagnosing and treating subscapularis tears, but there is a paucity of clinical guidance to optimize diagnostic decision-making.
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Inadequate Helmet Fit Increases Concussion Severity in American High School Football Players
- Sports health
- Published almost 5 years ago
- Discuss
There is limited information on the relationship between football helmet fit and concussion severity.