Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction has a detrimental impact on athletic performance. Despite rehabilitation guidelines and criterion-based progressions to ensure safe restoration of fundamental physical capacities maladaptive movement strategies, residual deficits in maximal strength, rate force development (RFD), power reactive strength are commonly reported. These combined with a...

in today's world, women's participation in social activities is considered as a measure of their social and civil rights. however, there are challenges to such participation. this research aims to investigate these socio-cultural obstacles, comparing athletic and non-athletic women. the present study examines women's sports participation as a form of behavior which includes fishb...

CONTEXT The use of sport-specific imagery during rehabilitation is sparse. Athletes who used imagery (either facilitative or debilitative) during injury rehabilitation were compared with injured athletes who did not use imagery. Return-to-practice anxiety in the groups was investigated also. OBJECTIVE To (1) explore debilitative images used during rehabilitation, (2) examine athlete and injur...

The Hybrid III 50th percentile male anthropomorphic test device (ATD) is the most widely used human impact testing surrogate and has historically been used in automotive or military testing. More recently, this ATD is finding use in applications evaluating athletic helmet protectivity, quantifying head impact dosage and estimating injury risk. But ATD head-neck response has not been quantified ...

Vitamin D is well known for its role in calcium regulation and bone health, but emerging literature tells of vitamin D's central role in other vital body processes, such as: signaling gene response, protein synthesis, hormone synthesis, immune response, plus, cell turnover and regeneration. The discovery of the vitamin D receptor within the muscle suggested a significant role for vitamin D in m...

OBJECTIVE To compare the incidence, nature, severity and cause of match injuries sustained on grass and new generation artificial turf by male and female footballers. METHODS The National Collegiate Athletic Association Injury Surveillance System was used for a two-season (August to December) prospective study of American college and university football teams (2005 season: men 52 teams, women...

Introduction: The objective of this paper is to demonstrate techniques on how improve hip flexibility and mobility, especially for track field athletes. It also seeks explain the underlying importance mobility. When athlete’s hips are stiff inflexible, muscle imbalance may occur increase risk injury. Muscle in often causes knee pain, due flexors quadriceps overworking order compensate weaker mu...

Abstract Worldwide, more than 50 million children and adolescents participate in organized athletic programs annually. Despite the numerous health well-being benefits, this widespread involvement also leads to acute overuse injuries that account for millions of medical visits each year. Musculoskeletal injury childhood may lead growth disturbance lifelong disability. Imaging plays a critical ro...

results our study comprised 739 subjects (367 athletes and 372 non-athletes). among athletic university students, 152 (41.2%) participants complained of headache. such a complaint was present in 217 (58.3%) non-athletic university students. this lower prevalence of headache in athletes was statistically significant (p value < 0.001). among ten different sports fields, the prevalence of headache...