BACKGROUND Obstructive sleep apnea is a clinical disorder characterized by loud snoring, apneic episodes, and chronic sleep disruption. Collegiate football players exhibit several risk factors for OSA, including large neck circumference and high body mass index, although the prevalence of OSA in this cohort is unknown. METHODS The STOP-BANG questionnaire was administered at random to members ...

Objectives-To determine by survey whether the frequency of use of performance enhancing drugs (drug doping) is significant in elite players of Australian Rules football, and to compare this frequency with that in other competitions. Methods-Randomised unannounced prospective urine testing during the period 1990-95 of players from the Australian Football League out of competition, in competition...

The aim of the study was to characterize selected indices of endurance and speed of the Korea Republic team with reference to the four best teams during the World Cup of 2010. Five hundred and ninety-nine football players from thirty-two teams participated in the study. All teams played in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. For the assessment of the players' motor activity during matches commo...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of a comprehensive warm-up programme designed to reduce the risk of injuries in female youth football. DESIGN Cluster randomised controlled trial with clubs as the unit of randomisation. SETTING 125 football clubs from the south, east, and middle of Norway (65 clusters in the intervention group; 60 in the control group) followed for one league season (eight m...

BACKGROUND It has been debated whether cardiovascular screening of athletes creates negative psychological reactions in those being screened. Neither the athletes' level of distress towards, nor their opinion about screening has actually been examined. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the level of distress among Norwegian elite male football players and their experiences of screen...

Local anaesthetic use in professional football is one of the greatest taboos in sports medicine. The subject is not covered comprehensively in any sports medicine textbook or review article. Most of the publications citing local anaesthetic use are legal cases from the National Football League (NFL) in which the procedure has been connected with a career ending injury. 1 2 There are some candid...

OBJECTIVE In Football the ability to repeat bouts of high intensity exercise over prolonged period of time is considered to be an important component of performance (Barbero Álvarez et al., 2004). Recently a match-analysis derived test (Football Intermittent Endurance Test, FIET) has been introduced to assess specific-endurance in Football (Barbero Álvarez et al., 2005). However no research has...

The reminiscence bump is the tendency to recall more autobiographical memories from adolescence and early adulthood than from adjacent lifetime periods. In this online study, the robustness of the reminiscence bump was examined by looking at participants' judgements about the quality of football players. Dutch participants (N = 619) were asked who they thought the five best players of all time ...

OBJECTIVE There exists a need to better understand the biomechanical forces associated with head impacts in American football. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether or not differences in head accelerations existed between different player positions and different event types in collegiate football. We also sought to identify whether or not any associations existed between high-mag...