5 List of Original papers 7 Abbreviations 8 Introduction 9 Volleyball 9 History 9 Game characteristics 9 Physical demands 11 General injury pattern in volleyball 12 Olympic weightlifting 14 History 14 Characteristics 14 Physical demands 14 General injury pattern 15 The normal patellar tendon 16 Anatomy 16 Blood supply 18 Metabolism 18 Innervation 19 Biomechanics 20 The chronic painful patellar ...

The use of a particular attentional paradigm, the paradigm of Sidedness (Ottoboni, Tessari, Cubelli & Umiltà, 2005) has highlighted as professional volleyball players differ from nonplayers in the ability to encode specific spatial indexes. The presentation of images of hands of potential adversaries incorporates meanings related to sport that make volleyball athletes sensitive to directional s...

Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the symmetry of the isometric strength of the shoulder and scapulothoracic muscles in volleyball and futsal athletes. Methods: In this case-control study, the strength of the scapulothoracic muscles and rotation of the shoulders in 20 adult volleyball athletes and 20 futsal adult athletes, who were randomly selected from sports clubs around Tehran, were me...

Using appropriate devices and scientific methods by coaches and trainers can accelerate the process of sport talent identification and development, and could also provide condition in which capable athletes to be directed in to suitable sport according to their abilities and skills. Former researches in scope of sport talent identification usually have been done in order to determine or normali...

The aim of the present study was to identify the volleyball skills that discriminate in favour of victory. Twenty-four games (n=24) from the Senior Men's Volleyball World Championship played in Italy in 2010 were chosen and analyzed with Data Volley software. The discriminating function was used to identify the discriminating variables, using a canonical structuring coefficient of |SC| ≥ .30. T...

Volleyball has become an extremely popular participation sport worldwide. Fortunately, the incidence of serious injury is relatively low. The sport-specific activity most commonly associated with injury is blocking. Ankle sprains are the most common acute injury. Recurrent sprains may be less likely to occur if an ankle orthosis is worn. Patellar tendinitis represents the most common overuse in...

The purpose of this study was to investigate changes in reaction time of elite volleyball players during a game. Fourteen volleyball players participated in the study. Reaction time was measured using the Optojump system. In addition, blood lactate concentration was assessed to monitor physiological load during the game. All measurements were performed during a pre-game test and during sets 1, ...

T eam volleyball is an Olympic sport played professionally in many countries around the world. Despite the increasing professionalization of coaches and athletes, there is little research data concerning performance in professional volleyball players. Two major reasons for this are suggested. Some coaches adopt traditional methodologies in resistance training (RT) programs for team volleyball, ...

Voleybol yetenek, çaba ve yaratıcılığın en iyi şekilde gösterildiği spor dallarından biridir. Voleybolun doğuşundan bu yana sporcular, voleybolun temel özelliklerini sahada uygulayarak izleyici taraftarları etkileme imkânı bulmuştur. Bu doğrultuda imajı da günden güne yükselen bir grafik çizmektedir. Özellikle salonda önemli başarılara imza atan voleybol branşı, plaj kar voleybolu alanlarında s...