Health and Athletics

Personal health benefits of Masters athletics competition.

Questionnaires (750 respondents, 44.4% response rate) examined the long-term health value of endurance exercise training in older age-classed competitors ('Masters Athletes', 551 men and 199 women) over a 7-year period (1985-1992). The majority had initially completed maximal exercise tests. The weekly time devoted to training, competition and exercise-related travel was 10 to 30 h, and the ann...

Blood Transfusion and Athletics

* * In 1976, the Medical Commission ofthe International Olympic Committee formally condemned the practice of blood transfusion for athletes in good health. As ofthis writing, however, blood doping has not been explicitly forbidden. The Author discusses important and controversial questions such as: does blood transfusion afford world-class athletes a substantial competitive advantage? Is this p...

Spinal deformity and athletics.

Exercise and athletic competition for the young individual has become increasingly more important in society. Scoliosis and Scheurmann kyphosis are spinal deformities prevalent in up to 2% to 3% and 7% of the population respectively, requiring nonoperative and occasionally operative treatment. Curve progression and patient physiologic age dictate treatment regimens. Bracing and physical therapy...

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Athletics and the Boy

ter. Some point to the number yearly killed and disabled by football, and the still greater number who are victims of baseball, and loudly declaim against both games. On the other hand, there are those who declare that it is by means of such sports that boys acquire manliness, ruggedness, health and other unmixed blessings. The majority of mothers belong to the first class, while a fair balance...