Olympic athletics medical experience, Seoul--personal views.

Olympic athletics medical experience, Seoul--personal views.

The medical team to look after 107 track and field athletes and 23 officials consisted of two doctors and four physiotherapists. After two years' prior fact-finding, detailed planning for the games started many months in advance. With final team selections only four weeks before travelling, all hopefuls had to complete appropriate immunizations, fitting in with training schedules and competitio...

Medical aspects of competitive athletics.

In longer races an increasing proportion of the energy for running comes from the aerobic mechanism of energy liberation. Aerobic mechanisms contribute just over half the total energy required in running a mile but more than three-quarters of the energy required in running three miles. In the presence of adequate supplies of oxygen, pyruvic acid is not converted to lactic acid but itself underg...

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...

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Medical students’ experience of personal loss: incidence and implications

BACKGROUND Medical students are generally young people, often away from home for the first time and undertaking a course in which they are learning to care for people at all stages of life, including those approaching death. Existing research indicates that their experiences of personal bereavement may have significant implications for their pastoral welfare and medical learning. No previous st...