This study characterized developmental sporting activities undertaken by volleyball players between ages of 6 to 12 years. Highly skilled (n = 30) and less participated in retrospective interviews identify the nature their formative enrichment experiences (formal adult-led informal child-led activities) types sports practised (team or individual sports). All participants reported involvement mu...

In the last two decades, basketball coaches have increasingly relied on statistical analysis to determine coaching strategies for their teams. Davidson College (USA) men’s basketball coach Bob McKillop divides each game into ten “rounds”, with a round ending at each media timeout and at halftime, and gives his team several “round” goals for every game. In this article we investigate how winning...

In order to prevent anterior cruciate ligament injuries it is necessary to define risk factors and to analyze the most frequent causes of injuries – that being the aim of this study. The study sample consisted of 451 surgically treated patients, including 400 sportsmen (65% of them being active and 35% recreational sportsmen), 29% female and 71% male; of whom 90% were younger than 35. Sports in...

Currently, there is no overview of the incidence and (volleyball-specific) risk factors of musculoskeletal injuries among volleyball players, nor any insight into the effect of preventive measures on the incidence of injuries in volleyball. This study aimed to review systematically the scientific evidence on the incidence, prevalence, aetiology and preventive measures of volleyball injuries. To...

Due to high training loads and frequently repeated unilateral exercises, several types of sports training can have an impact on the process of posture development in young athletes. The objective of the study was to assess and compare the postures of adolescent male volleyball players and their non-training peers. The study group comprised 104 volleyball players while the control group consiste...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the overall incidence of acute and overuse volleyball injuries, and to describe factors associated with ankle sprains. METHODS 486 players from the second and third Dutch national volleyball divisions participated in the study and were followed prospectively during a whole season. Three measurements were made during the season (baseline, follow up 1, and follow up 2), wh...

TRANSLATION EDITORS Chinese: Doris-Lu Anderson, Ph. D., California State Long Beach University, USA Czech: PhDr. Rostislav Vorálek, Ph.D. French: Frederique Sevet-Collier, Ph. D. Portuguese: Mario Marques, Ph. D., University of Beira Interior, Portugal Spanish: Catallina Franco-Cicero, M. S., Barry University, USA & Julio Morales, Ph. D., Lamar University, USA EDITORIAL BOARD (members plus edit...

Background The use of nutritional supplements (NS) places athletes at great risk for inadvertent doping. Due to the paucity of data on supplement use, this study aimed to determine the proportion of Ugandan athletes using nutritional supplements and to investigate the athletes' motivation to use these supplements. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted in which an interviewer-administe...

The primary objective of the present study was to evaluate the agreement between the dominant leg (DL) (determined subjectively) and the stronger leg (SL) (determined via a functional test) in a group of basketball and volleyball players. The secondary objective was to calculate lower limb neuromuscular asymmetry when comparing the DL vs the non-dominant leg (NDL) and the SL vs the weaker (WL) ...