Physical activity is an essential component of a healthy life, e.g. to prevent obesity, cardiovascular disease and premature death, of which sports can be an important part. Unfortunately, sports activities increase the risk of both overuse and acute injuries. Severe acute injuries may also lead to a permanent medical impairment (PMI), which may influence the ability to be physically active thr...

Our Mission The Vision of the Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Institute and the UF Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation divisions of Sports Medicine and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation is to be a center for excellence for patient care, education and research related to injuries and conditions that affect the ability of individuals to successfully participate in sports, performing ...

1Adjunct Professor, Instituto Biomédico, Universidade Federal Fluminense. Specialist in Sports Medicine from Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina do Exercício e do Esporte (SBMEE) and Cardiology from Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia (SBC). Former President of the Brazilian Society of Sports Medicine (2009/2011). Secretary General of the Panamerican Confederation of Sports Medicine (Copamede). Tr...

Over time, the US sports gaming industry has progressed dramatically beyond what the US anti-gaming law drafters envisioned. The result is a system of mostly antiquated laws controlling modern industry causing confusion across the board. This discussion, therefore, intends to shed light on the US sports gaming legal framework, including analysis of the preeminent US laws that regulate the sport...

Sports culture industry is an important branch of cultural industry.With the combination of questionnaire survey, unary linear regression and other mathematical thought and research, this paper used the analysis technology of SWTO, and analyzed and studied the sports cultural industry, such as the advantage, disadvantage, opportunity, threaten and so on. Finially based on the theoretical analys...

Our Mission The Vision of the Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Institute and the UF Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation divisions of Sports Medicine and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation is to be a center for excellence for patient care, education and research related to injuries and conditions that affect the ability of individuals to successfully participate in sports, performing ...

Our Mission The Vision of the Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Institute and the UF Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation divisions of Sports Medicine and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation is to be a center for excellence for patient care, education and research related to injuries and conditions that affect the ability of individuals to successfully participate in sports, performing ...

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...

background trauma is an inescapable part of sports competitions. it occurs more frequently in contact sports such as wrestling. objectives the purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of injury in greco-roman style wrestling competitions at national level. patients and methods this descriptive epidemiological research included 50 greco-roman style wrestlers who participated in natio...