Background. Basketball is a dynamic sport where athletes are expected to observe the fast movements of team players and opponents in a performance. This condition requires a collective focus on the stipulated tasks, to achieve peak performance. Besides, training is frequently performed to improve concentration and athlete performance. This instigates the need for technology-based methods, inclu...

BACKGROUND Over 7 million students participate in high school athletics annually. Despite numerous health benefits, high school athletes are at risk for injury. HYPOTHESIS Severe injury rates and patterns differ by gender and type of exposure. Study Design Descriptive epidemiology study. METHODS Sports-related injury data were collected during the 2005-2007 academic years from 100 nationall...

OBJECTIVES To examine the precocity-longevity (P-L) effect in North American professional basketball players who debuted between 1946 and 1979, and to determine whether playing position and decade of play influenced the relationship between age of career achievements and life span. METHODS A total of 1852 players were evaluated from a recognized sports archive (i.e., http://sports-reference.c...

Synergy Graphs model team performance as a function of individual capabilities and inter-agent compatibility. Synergy Graphs have previously been applied to team formation problems in multi-agent systems, physical robot teams, and selecting modules for multi-robot teams. In this extended abstract, we describe how the Synergy Graph model is applied to human teams. In particular, we focus on bask...

Previous research has applied the behavioral momentum metaphor to men's college basketball. In the current investigation, the relative rate of reinforcement prior to and following adversities (e.g., turnovers, fouls) and periods of time-out were examined in a subset of women's college basketball games.

Somatotype ratings and percentage body fat of 131 elite Nigerian male athletes, average 24.2 years of age, and belonging to badminton (n = 18), basketball (n = 30), field hockey (n = 24), handball (n = 16), judo (n = 18), and soccer (n = 25) teams were determined. Basketball, handball and soccer players were taller and heavier, and had low percent fat values as compared with the other athletic ...

The purpose of the study is: 1) development and unification a system training loads monitoring by nature physiological impact on basketball players’ body; 2) strategy preparing highly qualified team for important international competitions, namely: to find out distribution means different physiological, as well technical-tactical game orientation at stages preparation; 3) test players before af...

Although the literature records instances of acute epidural haematoma and acute subdural haematoma related to playing basketball, there has not been a report of chronic subdural haematoma as a basketball injury. With the burgeoning interest in this sport in the United Kingdom and Europe, the possibility of this particular neurotrauma increases. Such an injury, along with the diagnosis and manag...

Introduction: This study investigated the sport-related ankle injuries attending an accident and emergency (A&E) department during a one-year period. Methods: A total of 1,715 sports injuries cases attending an A&E department from 1 January 2005 to 31 December 2005 were prospectively recorded. Details of each classified case were recorded in a computerized record system by the triage nurse. At ...