n An 18 year-old female member of the national soccer team underwent an anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction 6 months previously. The university’s athletic therapist cleared the athlete for training the week previous. There is an important competition for her university this weekend and the university coach wants the athlete to play and believes she is ready to compete. The athlete says sh...

This study presents a complete psychological skills training (PST) program with a wheelchair athlete and examines the program effectiveness using a mixed-method approach. After initial testing, the athlete followed a two-month program of self-confidence building, motivational, visualization/relaxation, and injury management techniques. Quantitative and qualitative methods were used to examine t...

Purpose: Long term effects of poliomyelitis are known in many countries. Despite no definite label for these signs and symptoms, there is a remarkable similarity among patients with regard to description of the problems and complications of the disease. In this study, we compared the prevalence of symptoms of Post-Polio Syndrome (PPS) in athlete and non-athlete poliomyelitis survivors. Methods...

The objectives of this study were to estimate the incidence and describe the pattern and severity of training injuries in taekwondo, and to compare pattern and severity of training injuries with competition injuries. One hundred and fifty-two active Australian amateur taekwondo athletes, aged 12 years or over, completed an online survey comprising questions on training exposure and injury histo...

The aim of this research was to study the effect of warm up with two different type intensity on plasma antioxidant enzymes and damage indices of lipid, protein and DNA after intensive activity in non-athlete males. 12 non athlete students of kharazmi University participated in this study. Firist, subjects VO2peak were measured by Gas analyzer (Meta Max 3B) on the ergometer cycle with increment...

the aim of this research was to investigate the ability of arousal control in male and female athletes using mental imagery and biofeedback methods. participants were 30 male and female athlete students of tehran university (mean aged 23) who were assigned into two homogeneous groups based on vividness of movement imagery questionnaire 2. participants were given acoustic biofeedback during thre...

This research was performed with the aim of determining relationship between ability to cope sports problems and athlete engagement students in sciences The study designed according correlational survey causal comparative model. included a total 288 athletes, 81 women 207 men, obtained convenience sampling method. For collection data research, Turkish adaptation “Athletic Coping Skills Inventor...