traumatic injuries are leading causes of spinal cord damage. the purpose of this study was to evaluate whether wrestling induced cervical spondylosis amongst professional wrestlers or not. to test this assumption, two groups of athletes, 72 wrestlers versus 76 non-wrestlers 15-55 years of age were studied. radiographic findings and clinical assessment were compared in both groups. significant d...

OBJECTIVE To assess the risk of injury to professional footballers during European international and English Premier and First Division league matches. METHODS Videotaped recordings of 29, 49, and 93 matches from the 1996 European Championship, 1996/1997 English Premier season and 1994 to 1997 English First Division seasons respectively were analysed. During each match, several relevant varia...

Hamstring injuries constitute one of the most concerning injuries in English Premier League football, due to its high primary incidence but also its recurrence. Functional methods assessing hamstring function during high-risk performance tasks such as sprinting are vital to identify potential risk factors. The purpose of this study was to assess horizontal force deficits during maximum sprint r...

Football, which was once considered only a game, as now metamorphosed into a never-ending drama, “a soap opera watched all over the world” [1]. The overall appeal of sport has thus made it increasingly synonymous with wealth creation [2]. Particularly, football as a business continues to grow at an exponential rate from year to year. As revealed by Deloitte, this staggering growth becomes more ...

Selecting team players is a crucial and challenging task demanding considerable amount of thinking hard work by the selectors. The present study formulated selection an IPL as multi-objective optimization problem with objectives maximizing batting bowling performance squad, in which player’s estimated using efficient Batting Performance Factor Combined Bowling Rate. Also, proposed model tries t...