Archive for the ‘Sports Medicine / Fitness’ Category
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Milliseconds can mean the difference between triumph and defeat in the world of Olympic sports, leading more trainers and athletes to look toward technology as a tool to get an edge on the competition. A fluids mechanics professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., is using experimental flow measurement ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
The University of Houston department of health and human performance is launching an international effort to recruit 500 participants for a study promoting healthy dietary habits and physical activity. The study will take place entirely in the virtual world of Second Life (SL). ...
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
It is almost exactly 40 years since drug tests were first conducted at the Olympic Games. Now they are an unfortunate but essential facet of the Games. Scientific advances, and advances in mass spectrometry in particular, have enabled the authorities to keep pace with attempts by drug cheats to avoid ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
A physiotherapist at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton is off to the Olympics. As well as working in Physiotherapy Outpatients at Musgrove, Helen Mathie, of Wiveliscombe, works for the British Equestrian Federation as squad physiotherapist for Team GB Paradressage. She treats both the riders and horses along with any broken ...
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
Short durations of stretching prior to activity may not alter muscle strength, and appears to temporarily improve joint range of motion (ROM), suggests a study published in the August 2008 issue of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise ®, the official scientific journal of the American ...
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
A University of Colorado at Boulder study of a space-age, low-gravity training machine used by several 2008 Olympic runners showed it reduced impacts on muscles and joints by nearly half when subjects ran at the equivalent of 50 percent of their body weight.The new study has implications for both competitive ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
A strain of mice with the natural ability to repair damaged cartilage may one day lead to significant improvements in treatment of human knee, shoulder and hip injuries.Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have discovered males from a strain of mice called MRL/MpJ have the innate ability to repair ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
Short durations of stretching prior to activity may not alter muscle strength, and appears to temporarily improve joint range of motion (ROM), suggests a study published in the August 2008 issue of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise ®, the official scientific journal of the American ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
A new supplement focusing on the vital importance of sodium in maintaining voluntary drinking, plasma sodium concentration, vascular volume, total body water, and cardiovascular function during rest and physical activity has been made available with the July/August 2008 issue of Current Sports Medicine Reports, the official clinical review journal ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Treatment of concussions remains arguably the most complex and controversial issue in sports medicine for athletes of all ages, yet concussions occur in millions of athletes each year.The good news is that new scientific research continues to provide clearer knowledge for team doctors and athletic trainers, helping them to recognize ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Leading cardiovascular research scientists and a number of prominent football figures from Spain recently convened at the world's first symposium focused on the molecular analysis of sudden death in football players. The I Symposium de Prevención en el Futbol was held at the Hospital Clínico San Carlos in Madrid, where ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Cool, dry air flowing between the athlete and their football pads reduces core body temperature and heart rate dramatically, thereby reducing the likelihood of heat-related illness, a study released at the 2008 American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting at JW Marriott Orlando Grande Lakes shows. The study found ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Each year more than 7 million high school students participate in interscholastic athletics in the U.S. , and approximately 715,000 sport-related and recreation-related injuries occur in school settings . As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of athletic injuries, today at its 59TH annual meeting and clinical ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
Eighty-three percent of athletes who had "Tommy John" elbow reconstruction surgery were able to return to the same or better level of play, according to a study released today at the 2008 American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting at JW Marriott Orland Grande Lakes. While reassuring to athletes, ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
Grueling summer practice schedules can take their toll on athletes preparing for fall sports. Tony Breitbach, Ph.D., director of athletic training education at Saint Louis University, says acclimatization is key, allowing the body to get used to the heat by training in shorts and a helmet and gradually working up ...
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