The purpose of this study was to examine the effects PPAR-a (rs4253778) on serum lipids in elite cross-country skiers. This included 34 skiers (23 males and 11 females who participated Turkish skiing national team camp). Genotyping for gene rs4253778 G/C polymorphism performed by PCR Tercyk multicanal amplificator restriction enzyme digestion. Statistical analysis done using SPSS 22.0 package p...

Series editor: Dr. John M. Esdaile, Professor and Head, Division of Rheumatology, University of British Columbia, and Scientific Director, Arthritis Research Centre of Canada, Vancouver, BC. The case A 32-year-old male runner visits his family physician in late spring complaining of pain in his knees over the past month. The pain is mostly anterior but is not well localized. It is aggravated by...

Concussion is a common type of brain injury caused by impact forces to the head following intentional or unintentional collisions. All sports, whether they are team sports (eg, football, rugby and ice hockey), or individual sports (eg, horse riding, skiing or boxing) have finite risk of a concussion injury, which should be reduced as much as possible if the potential for long-term problems is t...

With the help of a kinematic analysis we tried to establish whether the competitors with a shorter line of skiing achieve higher velocities among the slalom gates. The first part of research found out that the competitors who had the shortest lines of skiing in the first analysed turn had, as a rule, the longest lines of skiing in the second turn and vice versa. The shortest line of skiing is t...

As a venue for the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, National Alpine Skiing Center is located on Xiaohaitou Mountain in Beijing’s Yanqing district, where strong winds occur frequently. To reduce impact of competition, windbreak fences have been installed ski area. determine effect stability beside slope alpine skiing center, numerical simulation method was used to study performance 3.7 ...

EDITORIAL article Front. Sports Act. Living, 09 March 2021Sec. Science, Technology and Engineering https://doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2021.628574